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Best Paper Award

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the 2017 Diversity Best Paper Award. The nominations were made by a selection committee, which was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Michael Wink, and supported by Five Editorial Board Members. The two top-voted papers, in no particular order, have won the 2017 Diversity Best Paper Award:

Species Richness and Relative Abundance of Reef-Building Corals in the Indo-West Pacific
DeVantier, L.; Turak, E.
Diversity 2017, 9, 25. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/9/3/25

Positive Diagnosis of Ancient Leprosy and Tuberculosis Using Ancient DNA and Lipid Biomarkers
Donoghue, H.D.; Taylor, G.M.; Stewart, G.R.; Lee, O.Y.-C.; Wu, H.H.T.; Besra, G.S.; Minnikin, D.E.
Diversity 2017, 9, 46. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/9/4/46

Please join us in congratulating the winners, whom we thank for having chosen Diversity to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will collectively receive a cash award of 500 CHF, and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Diversity after the usual peer-review procedure.

Additional thanks go out to the selection committee for its efforts in choosing the winners:

Prof. Dr. Maria Augustyniak
Prof. Dr. Carlo Nike BIANCHI
Dr. Vitor H. Paiva
Dr. Eugenia Apostolaki
Dr. Matthieu Chauvat

 
Diversity 2019 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Diversity will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
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Winner

61 pages, 45929 KiB  
Article
The Phylogeny of Rays and Skates (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) Based on Morphological Characters Revisited
by Eduardo Villalobos-Segura, Giuseppe Marramà, Giorgio Carnevale, Kerin M. Claeson, Charlie J. Underwood, Gavin J. P. Naylor and Jürgen Kriwet
Diversity 2022, 14(6), 456; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14060456 - 6 Jun 2022
50 pages, 2174 KiB  
Article
Status and Trends in the Rate of Introduction of Marine Non-Indigenous Species in European Seas
by Argyro Zenetos, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Marika Galanidi, Natacha Carvalho, Cátia Bartilotti, João Canning-Clode, Luca Castriota, Paula Chainho, Robert Comas-González, Ana C. Costa, Branko Dragičević, Jakov Dulčić, Marco Faasse, Ann-Britt Florin, Arjan Gittenberger, Hans Jakobsen, Anders Jelmert, Francis Kerckhof, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Silvia Livi, Kim Lundgreen, Vesna Macic, Cécile Massé, Borut Mavrič, Rahmat Naddafi, Martina Orlando-Bonaca, Slavica Petovic, Lydia Png-Gonzalez, Aina Carbonell Quetglas, Romeu S. Ribeiro, Tiago Cidade, Sander Smolders, Peter A. U. Stæhr, Frederique Viard and Okko Outinenadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Diversity 2022, 14(12), 1077; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14121077 - 6 Dec 2022
15 pages, 1986 KiB  
Article
Ain’t Nothing like Family—Female Brown Bears Share Their Home Range with Relatives
by Astrid Olejarz, Jouni Aspi, Ilpo Kojola, Vesa Nivala, Alina K. Niskanen and Jenni Harmoinen
Diversity 2022, 14(1), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14010041 - 10 Jan 2022
23 pages, 1052 KiB  
Review
The Expanding Role of DNA Barcodes: Indispensable Tools for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation
by Morgan R. Gostel and W. John Kress
Diversity 2022, 14(3), 213; https://doi.org/10.3390/d14030213 - 13 Mar 2022

Winner

14 pages, 775 KiB  
Article
Mires in Europe—Regional Diversity, Condition and Protection
by Franziska Tanneberger, Asbjørn Moen, Alexandra Barthelmes, Edward Lewis, Lera Miles, Andrey Sirin, Cosima Tegetmeyer and Hans Joosten
Diversity 2021, 13(8), 381; https://doi.org/10.3390/d13080381 - 16 Aug 2021
19 pages, 3285 KiB  
Article
The Role of Small Lowland Patches of Exotic Forests as Refuges of Rare Endemic Azorean Arthropods
by Noelline Tsafack, Simone Fattorini, Mário Boieiro, François Rigal, Alejandra Ros-Prieto, Maria Teresa Ferreira and Paulo A. V. Borges
Diversity 2021, 13(9), 443; https://doi.org/10.3390/d13090443 - 16 Sep 2021
12 pages, 1599 KiB  
Article
Origins of Six Species of Butterflies Migrating through Northeastern Mexico: New Insights from Stable Isotope (δ2H) Analyses and a Call for Documenting Butterfly Migrations
by Keith A. Hobson, Jackson W. Kusack and Blanca X. Mora-Alvarez
Diversity 2021, 13(3), 102; https://doi.org/10.3390/d13030102 - 25 Feb 2021
15 pages, 2736 KiB  
Review
Why Is the Alpine Flora Comparatively Robust against Climatic Warming?
by Christian Körner and Erika Hiltbrunner
Diversity 2021, 13(8), 383; https://doi.org/10.3390/d13080383 - 16 Aug 2021

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Michael Wink Chairman
Heidelberg University

Winner

19 pages, 1805 KiB  
Review
More Than a Functional Group: Diversity within the Legume–Rhizobia Mutualism and Its Relationship with Ecosystem Function
by Benton N. Taylor, Ellen L. Simms and Kimberly J. Komatsu
Diversity 2020, 12(2), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/d12020050 - 28 Jan 2020
12 pages, 249 KiB  
Article
A Common Approach to the Conservation of Threatened Island Vascular Plants: First Results in the Mediterranean Basin
by Giuseppe Fenu, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Charalambos S. Christodoulou, Donatella Cogoni, Christini Fournaraki, Giusso del Galdo Gian Pietro, Panagiota Gotsiou, Angelos Kyratzis, Carole Piazza, Magdalena Vicens and Bertrand de Montmollin
Diversity 2020, 12(4), 157; https://doi.org/10.3390/d12040157 - 18 Apr 2020
22 pages, 4502 KiB  
Article
Plant Diversity Patterns and Conservation Implications under Climate-Change Scenarios in the Mediterranean: The Case of Crete (Aegean, Greece)
by Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Ioannis P. Kokkoris, Maria Panitsa, Panayiotis Trigas, Arne Strid and Panayotis Dimopoulos
Diversity 2020, 12(7), 270; https://doi.org/10.3390/d12070270 - 7 Jul 2020
21 pages, 2455 KiB  
Article
Conserving the Diversity of Ecological Interactions: The Role of Two Threatened Macaw Species as Legitimate Dispersers of “Megafaunal” Fruits
by José L. Tella, Fernando Hiraldo, Erica Pacífico, José A. Díaz-Luque, Francisco V. Dénes, Fernanda M. Fontoura, Neiva Guedes and Guillermo Blanco
Diversity 2020, 12(2), 45; https://doi.org/10.3390/d12020045 - 24 Jan 2020

Winner

35 pages, 4018 KiB  
Article
A Phylogenomic Supertree of Birds
by Rebecca T. Kimball, Carl H. Oliveros, Ning Wang, Noor D. White, F. Keith Barker, Daniel J. Field, Daniel T. Ksepka, R. Terry Chesser, Robert G. Moyle, Michael J. Braun, Robb T. Brumfield, Brant C. Faircloth, Brian Tilston Smith and Edward L. Braun
Diversity 2019, 11(7), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/d11070109 - 10 Jul 2019
21 pages, 5530 KiB  
Article
Recent Trends in Research on the Genetic Diversity of Plants: Implications for Conservation
by Yasmin G. S. Carvalho, Luciana C. Vitorino, Ueric J. B. de Souza and Layara A. Bessa
Diversity 2019, 11(4), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/d11040062 - 18 Apr 2019
20 pages, 809 KiB  
Review
The Importance of Isotopic Turnover for Understanding Key Aspects of Animal Ecology and Nutrition
by Wales A. Carter, Ulf Bauchinger and Scott R. McWilliams
Diversity 2019, 11(5), 84; https://doi.org/10.3390/d11050084 - 26 May 2019

Winner

8534 KiB  
Article
Species Richness and Relative Abundance of Reef-Building Corals in the Indo-West Pacific
by Lyndon DeVantier and Emre Turak
Diversity 2017, 9(3), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/d9030025 - 29 Jun 2017
3834 KiB  
Review
Positive Diagnosis of Ancient Leprosy and Tuberculosis Using Ancient DNA and Lipid Biomarkers
by Helen D. Donoghue, G. Michael Taylor, Graham R. Stewart, Oona Y. -C. Lee, Houdini H. T. Wu, Gurdyal S. Besra and David E. Minnikin
Diversity 2017, 9(4), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/d9040046 - 15 Oct 2017

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Michael Wink Chairman
Heidelberg University
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