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Next article FreeAnnouncementsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore2008 President's AwardThe President's Award of the American Society of Naturalists is given to the paper that, in the president's judgment, was the best paper to appear in The American Naturalist in the preceding calendar year. The President's Award for 2008 was given to Nathan J. B. Kraft, William K. Cornwell, Campbell O. Webb, and David D. Ackerly for their article, “Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities” (American Naturalist170:271–283).2008 Edward Osborne Wilson Naturalist AwardThe Edward Osborne Wilson Naturalist Award was established in 1997 on the occasion of Professor Wilson's retirement in recognition of his lifetime of outstanding contributions in the areas of ecology and evolutionary biology. The award is given annually to an active investigator in midcareer who has made significant contributions to the knowledge of a particular ecosystem or group of organisms. The 2008 award of an honorarium and an especially appropriate work of art (see fig. 1), a drawing by George Venable of Agra eowilsoni Erwin, a carabid beetle species endemic to the Amazonian rain forest canopy, went to Ulrich Mueller.Figure 1: Agra eowilsoni Erwin (drawing by George Venable). Erwin, T. L. 1996. Evolution at the equator: arboreal and alticolous beetles and their taxon pulses with descriptions of a new Agra subclade and its species (Coleoptera: Carabidae). In G. E. Ball, A. Casale, and A. Vigna Taglianti, eds. Phylogeny and classification of Caraboidea (Coleoptera: Adephaga). Proceedings of a symposium (August 28, 1996, Florence, Italy), XX International Congress of Entomology. Museo Regionale Scienze Naturali–Torino, Atti, Torino.View Large ImageDownload PowerPoint2008 Sewall Wright AwardThe Sewall Wright Award, established in 1991, is given annually to honor a senior but still active investigator who is making fundamental contributions to the goals of the American Society of Naturalists, namely, promoting the conceptual unification of the biological sciences. The 2008 award and an honorarium of $1,000 went to Spencer Barrett.2008 Young Investigators' PrizesThe Young Investigators' Prizes recognize outstanding and promising work by investigators who received their doctorates in the three years preceding the application deadline or are in their final year of graduate school. Prizewinners are invited to present their work at the Young Investigators' Symposium at the annual meetings of the American Society of Naturalists. The prizes for 2008 went to Jennifer Lau, Judith Mank, Volker Rudolf, and Mark Urban. Next article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The American Naturalist Volume 172, Number 6December 2008 Published for The American Society of Naturalists Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/595522 Views: 28 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.