Editors' Note

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Editors' Note

Winner of the Southwood Prize 2002
Each year, each of the Journals of the British Ecological Society offers a prize for the best paper by a young author. In our case, the award is named in honour of Prof. Sir Richard Southwood. The editors of the Journal of Applied Ecology are delighted to announce that the Southwood Prize for 2002 has been awarded to Dr Stephanie Kramer-Schadt for her co-paper with E. Revilla, T. Wiegand, F. Knauer, P. Kaczensky, U. Breitenmoser, L. Bufka, J. Cerveny, P. Koubek, T. Huber, C. Stanisa & L. Trepl on: 'Assessing the suitability of central European landscapes for the re-introduction of Eurasian lynx' ( Journal of Applied Ecology , 39 , 189–203).
The editors particularly liked the strong conservation biology theme of this work, and also the way it addressed a very real management problem by blending state-of-the-art methods for modelling with a substantial set of real field data.
It is particularly appropriate that the prize this year should be won by a young scientist from the European mainland, from where there is a continued growth of high-quality submissions to the Journal.