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Winner
Petras Prakas
Nature Research Centre, Lithuania
David B. Croft
University of New South Wales, Australia
Linas Balčiauskas
Nature Research Centre, Lithuania
Leopold Slotta-Bachmayr
University of Salzburg, Austria
Ivan Rehák
Prague Zoo, Czech Republic
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Michael Wink
Chairman
Heidelberg University
Winner
Claudia Bita-Nicolae
Academia Română, Institutul de Biologie Bucureşti, Bucharest
Zigmantas Gudžinskas
Laboratory of Flora and Geobotany, Lithuania
Sławomir Mitrus
Uniwersytet Opolski, Poland
Benjamin Hutchins
Konrad Fiedler
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Michael Wink
Chairman
Heidelberg University
Winner
Emilia Grzędzicka
Polish Academy of Sciences,Poland
Vasilios Liordos
International Hellenic University, Greece
Corrado Battisti
Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Italy
Igor Zelnik
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Daniel Stec
Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Poland
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Michael Wink
Chairman
Heidelberg University
Winner
Günter Gollmann
University of Vienna, Austria
Stephan Koblmüller
University of Graz, Austria
Emiliano Mori
Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri, Italy
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