Imma Oliveras, Meghna Krishnadas, Lúcia G. Lohmann, Jennifer S. Powers
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At the 2025 ATBC Annual Meeting, <b>Luisa Genes</b> from Stanford University, USA, was awarded the Alwyn Gentry Award for the Best Oral Presentation for their talk entitled “Evaluating the restoration of plant-animal interactions through trophic rewilding.” <b>Iñaki Quintana</b> from Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Unidad Oaxaca, México, was awarded the Alwyn Gentry Award for the Best Poster Presentation for their presentation entitled “Passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammal communities and anthropogenic noise impact in Oaxaca's coastal waters.”</p><p>The New Phytologist Trust graciously funds annual awards to recognize achievements in Plant Biology by student authors presenting at the ATBC Annual Meeting. At the 2025 Annual Meeting, the <b>New Phytologist Prize for Best Poster in Plant Biology</b> was awarded to <b>Liliana López-Olmedo</b> from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, for their poster entitled: “Decoupled environmental filtering between plant taxonomic and phylogenetic diversities in a tropical heterogeneous landscape.” The <b>New Phytologist Prize for Best Oral Presentation in Plant Biology</b> was awarded to <b>Ellen Quinlan</b> from Wake Forest University, USA, for their oral presentation entitled, “Patterns of diversification, gene flow, and functional diversity across an Andes elevation gradient.”</p><p>The ATBC is honored by all who chose to present their work at the 2025 Annual Meeting and congratulates these recipients for their outstanding contributions to tropical biology and conservation.</p><p>The ATBC promotes the professional development of students working in the areas of tropical biology and conservation by awarding seed grants to support graduate student research. With generous support from the Maxwell-Hanrahan Foundation, the ATBC was able to award a total of 17 Seed Grant Awards in 2025. The ATBC is pleased to announce the 2025 winners of the Seed Grants, which are the following:</p><p><b>Rukayat Ademola</b> (University of Capetown)</p><p>Title: “Breeding Status Modulates Physiological but Not Behavioral Responses to Human Disturbance in Urban Red-Winged Starlings”</p><p>Project Location: South Africa</p><p><b>Andrea Bernal-Rivera</b> (University of Washington)</p><p>Title: “Phenotypic plasticity of bats living in unpredictable environments”</p><p>Project Location: Colombia</p><p><b>Emma Bretherick</b> (Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)) Title: “Sensitivity of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Biogeochemical Cycles in Yucatán's Tropical Dry Forests: Biogeochemical Responses to Global Change-induced Drought”</p><p>Project Location: Mexico</p><p><b>Bruno da Silva</b> (State University of Paraíba)</p><p>Title: “Colors and Songs of the City: How Urbanization Patterns Affect the Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in the Northeastern Semiarid Region”</p><p>Project Location: Brazil</p><p><b>César Fuentes Montejo</b> (University of Illinois Chicago)</p><p>Title: “Riverscape Connectivity in Northern Central America”</p><p>Project Location: Belize</p><p><b>Gabriela Garcia Reynaga</b> (University of Miami)</p><p>Title: “Herbivory in a Hotter World: How Temperature Shapes Plant Defense in Tropical Rainforests” Project</p><p>Location: Peru</p><p><b>Satyam Gupta</b> (Ashoka University)</p><p>Title: “Investigating the causes and consequences of winter breeding under changing climates in the Indian Goldenback Frog (<i>Hylarana indica</i>)”</p><p>Project Location: India</p><p><b>David Gutierrez Duque</b> (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)</p><p>Title: “Drivers of fern species richness and endemism in the Andean mountains”</p><p>Project Location: Colombia</p><p><b>Carlos Hernández Orta</b> (Bangor University)</p><p>Title: “Microbial Conservation: The Role of Skin Bacteria as a Barrier to Lethal Emerging Diseases in Neotropical Amphibians”</p><p>Project Location: Guatemala</p><p><b>Jeffrey Mancera</b> (University of the Philippines Manila)</p><p>Title: “Detecting changes in reproductive phenology in a largely aseasonal tropical forest amid climate shifts”</p><p>Project Location: Malaysia</p><p><b>Siddhant Mhetre</b> (Fergusson College (Autonomous), Pune, India)</p><p>Title: “The recovery of tropical savanna biodiversity following agricultural abandonment in India”</p><p>Project Location: India</p><p><b>Diana Molina Ozuna</b> (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur)</p><p>Title: “Threads of Life: Orchid-Euglossini interactions networks and the challenge of habitat degradation in a Mexican rainforest”</p><p>Project Location: México</p><p><b>Antonio Razafindramboa</b> (University of Antananarivo)</p><p>Title: “Urban bryophytes as bioindicators: factor influencing species diversity and community assembly along a rural-urban gradient Madagascar's capital city”</p><p>Project Location: Madagascar</p><p><b>José Vladimir Rojas Sánchez</b> (UNAM)</p><p>Title: “The spatiotemporal variation of the arboreal mammals in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve as a response to environmental heterogeneity”</p><p>Project Location: Mexico</p><p><b>Sona Sebastian</b> (Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India)</p><p>Title: “Navigating concrete jungles: understanding the species richness, functional and phylogenetic diversity of amphibians from a tropical mega-city, Bengaluru, India”</p><p>Project Location: India</p><p>We thank the members of the Grants and Awards Committee of the ATBC for volunteering their time to review applications for the Seed Grant Award and evaluating presentations for all awards during the ATBC 2025 Annual Conference. 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The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) recognizes the exceptional research of students and early career scientists through awards presented at the ATBC Annual Conferences. The ATBC is pleased to announce the 2025 winners of these awards:
The Luis F. Bacardi Award for Advances in Tropical Conservation is awarded to the best conservation talk presented during the ATBC Annual Conference by an early-career scientist (i.e., a researcher who received their Ph.D. no more than 5 years before the meeting date). This award was established in 2005 with an endowment from the Lubee Bat Conservancy, an international non-profit organization based in Gainesville, Florida, USA. The Lubee Bat Conservancy was founded in 1989 by the late Luis F. Bacardi, and is dedicated to protecting biological diversity through the conservation of fruit- and nectar-feeding bats. At the 2025 ATBC Annual Meeting, Julián León from Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, was awarded the Luis F. Bacardi Award for their presentation entitled “No experience necessary—for wildlife to fear the human ‘super predator’”.
The Alwyn Gentry Presentation Awards were established to recognize outstanding oral and poster presentations given by students at the ATBC Annual Conference. Alwyn Gentry (1945–1993) was a prominent botanist who made exceptional contributions to the study of the diversity and conservation of tropical plants and to the training of students from the Americas. These awards are in remembrance and recognition of the contributions of this singular scientist, colleague, supportive mentor, and friend. At the 2025 ATBC Annual Meeting, Luisa Genes from Stanford University, USA, was awarded the Alwyn Gentry Award for the Best Oral Presentation for their talk entitled “Evaluating the restoration of plant-animal interactions through trophic rewilding.” Iñaki Quintana from Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Unidad Oaxaca, México, was awarded the Alwyn Gentry Award for the Best Poster Presentation for their presentation entitled “Passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammal communities and anthropogenic noise impact in Oaxaca's coastal waters.”
The New Phytologist Trust graciously funds annual awards to recognize achievements in Plant Biology by student authors presenting at the ATBC Annual Meeting. At the 2025 Annual Meeting, the New Phytologist Prize for Best Poster in Plant Biology was awarded to Liliana López-Olmedo from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, for their poster entitled: “Decoupled environmental filtering between plant taxonomic and phylogenetic diversities in a tropical heterogeneous landscape.” The New Phytologist Prize for Best Oral Presentation in Plant Biology was awarded to Ellen Quinlan from Wake Forest University, USA, for their oral presentation entitled, “Patterns of diversification, gene flow, and functional diversity across an Andes elevation gradient.”
The ATBC is honored by all who chose to present their work at the 2025 Annual Meeting and congratulates these recipients for their outstanding contributions to tropical biology and conservation.
The ATBC promotes the professional development of students working in the areas of tropical biology and conservation by awarding seed grants to support graduate student research. With generous support from the Maxwell-Hanrahan Foundation, the ATBC was able to award a total of 17 Seed Grant Awards in 2025. The ATBC is pleased to announce the 2025 winners of the Seed Grants, which are the following:
Rukayat Ademola (University of Capetown)
Title: “Breeding Status Modulates Physiological but Not Behavioral Responses to Human Disturbance in Urban Red-Winged Starlings”
Project Location: South Africa
Andrea Bernal-Rivera (University of Washington)
Title: “Phenotypic plasticity of bats living in unpredictable environments”
Project Location: Colombia
Emma Bretherick (Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)) Title: “Sensitivity of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Biogeochemical Cycles in Yucatán's Tropical Dry Forests: Biogeochemical Responses to Global Change-induced Drought”
Project Location: Mexico
Bruno da Silva (State University of Paraíba)
Title: “Colors and Songs of the City: How Urbanization Patterns Affect the Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in the Northeastern Semiarid Region”
Project Location: Brazil
César Fuentes Montejo (University of Illinois Chicago)
Title: “Riverscape Connectivity in Northern Central America”
Project Location: Belize
Gabriela Garcia Reynaga (University of Miami)
Title: “Herbivory in a Hotter World: How Temperature Shapes Plant Defense in Tropical Rainforests” Project
Location: Peru
Satyam Gupta (Ashoka University)
Title: “Investigating the causes and consequences of winter breeding under changing climates in the Indian Goldenback Frog (Hylarana indica)”
Project Location: India
David Gutierrez Duque (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
Title: “Drivers of fern species richness and endemism in the Andean mountains”
Project Location: Colombia
Carlos Hernández Orta (Bangor University)
Title: “Microbial Conservation: The Role of Skin Bacteria as a Barrier to Lethal Emerging Diseases in Neotropical Amphibians”
Project Location: Guatemala
Jeffrey Mancera (University of the Philippines Manila)
Title: “Detecting changes in reproductive phenology in a largely aseasonal tropical forest amid climate shifts”
Project Location: Malaysia
Siddhant Mhetre (Fergusson College (Autonomous), Pune, India)
Title: “The recovery of tropical savanna biodiversity following agricultural abandonment in India”
Project Location: India
Diana Molina Ozuna (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur)
Title: “Threads of Life: Orchid-Euglossini interactions networks and the challenge of habitat degradation in a Mexican rainforest”
Project Location: México
Antonio Razafindramboa (University of Antananarivo)
Title: “Urban bryophytes as bioindicators: factor influencing species diversity and community assembly along a rural-urban gradient Madagascar's capital city”
Project Location: Madagascar
José Vladimir Rojas Sánchez (UNAM)
Title: “The spatiotemporal variation of the arboreal mammals in Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve as a response to environmental heterogeneity”
Project Location: Mexico
Sona Sebastian (Manipal Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India)
Title: “Navigating concrete jungles: understanding the species richness, functional and phylogenetic diversity of amphibians from a tropical mega-city, Bengaluru, India”
Project Location: India
We thank the members of the Grants and Awards Committee of the ATBC for volunteering their time to review applications for the Seed Grant Award and evaluating presentations for all awards during the ATBC 2025 Annual Conference. We also thank the many volunteer judges who assessed presentations for all awards at the Annual Conference.
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Ranked by the ISI index, Biotropica is a highly regarded source of original research on the ecology, conservation and management of all tropical ecosystems, and on the evolution, behavior, and population biology of tropical organisms. Published on behalf of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, the journal''s Special Issues and Special Sections quickly become indispensable references for researchers in the field. Biotropica publishes timely Papers, Reviews, Commentaries, and Insights. Commentaries generate thought-provoking ideas that frequently initiate fruitful debate and discussion, while Reviews provide authoritative and analytical overviews of topics of current conservation or ecological importance. The newly instituted category Insights replaces Short Communications.
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