The Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology ( ca, Premi Ramon Margalef d'Ecologia) is a prize awarded annually by the

Generalitat de Catalunya The Generalitat de Catalunya (; oc, label= Aranese, Generalitat de Catalonha; es, Generalidad de Cataluña), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia politically organizes its self-government. It is formed ...

to recognize an exceptional scientific career or discovery in the field of

ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...

or other environmental sciences. The award was created to honor the life and work of Ramon Margalef. The award has been presented every year since 2004 and comes with an honorarium of and a sculpture representing a microalga, called ''Picarola margalefii''. It is open to

ecologists This is a list of notable ecologists. A-D * John Aber (USA) * Aziz Ab'Saber (Brazil) * Charles Christopher Adams (USA) * Warder Clyde Allee (USA) * Herbert G. Andrewartha ( Australia) * Sarah Martha Baker ( UK) * Fakhri A. Bazzaz (USA) ...

from anywhere in the world.

Awardees

* 2005 — Paul K. Dayton * 2006 — John Lawton * 2007 — Harold A. Mooney * 2008 —

Daniel Pauly Daniel Pauly is a French-born marine biologist, well known for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries and in 2020 was the most cited fisheries scientist in the world. He is a professor and the project leader of the Sea Around Us ...

* 2009 —

Paul R. Ehrlich Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of St ...

* 2010 — Simon A. Levin * 2011 — Juan Carlos Castilla * 2012 —

Daniel Simberloff Daniel Simberloff is a biologist and ecologist who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. He is currently Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee, editor-in-chief of the journal '' Biological In ...

* 2013 — Sallie W. Chisholm * 2014 —

David Tilman George David Tilman (born Titman; July 22, 1949), ForMemRS, is an American ecologist. He is Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota, as well as an instructor in Conservation Biology; Ecology, ...

* 2015 — Robert E. Ricklefs * 2016 — Josep Peñuelas * 2017 — Sandra Díaz * 2018 —

Stephen R. Carpenter Stephen Russell Carpenter (born July 5, 1952) is an American lake ecologist who focuses on lake eutrophication which is the over-enrichment of lake ecosystems leading to toxic blooms of micro-organisms and fish kills. Early life Born in Kansas ...

* 2019 — Carlos M. Duarte *2020 —

Sandra Lavorel Sandra Lavorel (born 1965 in Lyon) is a French ecologist specializing in functional ecology. She is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research ( CNRS) where she works at the Alpine Ecology Laboratory in Grenoble, F ...

* 2021 — Jordi Bascompte * 2022 - Gretchen C. Daily

Published lectures

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Margalef Prize In Ecology Awards established in 2004 Ecology awards Catalan awards

Awardees

Published lectures

See also

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