Each year, Ecological Solutions and Evidence awards the Georgina Mace Prize to an outstanding paper in the journal by an author at the start of their research career.

The following six papers, published in the fifth volume of the journal, have been shortlisted by our Senior Editors:

Nancy Burrell with ‘The inadequacy of current carbon storage assessment methods for rewilding: A Knepp Estate case study’

Ruth Dunn with ‘Temporal and spatial variability in availability bias has consequences for marine bird abundance estimates during the non-breeding season’

Micha Jackson with ‘Shorebird habitat selection and foraging behaviour have important implications for management at an internationally important non-breeding wetland’

Sarah Kingsbury with ‘A new tool for setting biodiversity management priorities adapted from aquatic invasive species management: A pilot using Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in NS, Canada’

Fredrick Ssali with ‘Associations between Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae) and common native species in an African savanna’

Kristy Ferraro with ‘Missing carcasses, lost nutrients: Quantifying nutrient losses from deer culling practices in Scotland’

Congratulations to the shortlisted authors! We’ll be announcing the winner soon, so stay tuned.