The 2015 IBS MacArthur & Wilson Award

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Announcements ISSN 1948-6596 The 2015 IBS MacArthur & Wilson Award The International Biogeography Society Board is pleased to announce that the MacArthur & Wilson Award will be presented to Dr. Daniel L. Rabosky at the society’s biennial meeting in Bayreuth, Ger- many, happening from 8 th to 12 th of January 2015. This award, which is sponsored by Frontiers of Bio- geography, was created to recognize an out- standing early-career scientist that has made in- novative, substantive, broad and important contri- butions to the discipline of biogeography and is named in honor of Robert H. MacArthur and Ed- ward O. Wilson. Daniel Rabosky received his PhD from Cor- nell University in 2009, completed a post-doctoral position at the University of California Berkeley, and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Uni- versity of Michigan. Interested in evolutionary diversification, ranging from the role of ecological interactions in the speciation process to factors that determine the fates of clades over epochal timescales, Daniel was nominated by IBS members for his work involving both comparative analyses of diversification as well as the development of analytical tools for hypothesis testing. His work is published in the highest-profile scientific journals, such as Systematic Biology, PNAS, Trends in Ecol- ogy and Evolution, Nature, and Science. A fuller account of his work will be featured in a future edition of Frontiers, following the presentation of this award at the upcoming biennial conference. The following four papers were submitted by his nominators to represent the broad range of his outstanding contributions to biogeography: Rabosky, D.L. (2009) Ecological limits on clade diversification in higher taxa. American Naturalist, 173, 662-674. Rabosky, D.L. (2009) Diversity dynamics of marine planktonic diatoms across the Cenozoic. Nature, 457, 183-186. Rabosky, D.L. (2010) Equilibrium speciation dynamics in a model adaptive radiation of island lizards. Proceed- ings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 51, 22178-22183. Rabosky, D.L. (2013) Diversity-dependence, ecological speci- ation, and the role of competition in macroevolution. Annual Review of Evolution, Ecology, and Systemat- ics, 44, 481-502. The IBS Board notes with thanks the work of the MacArthur & Wilson Award Committee: Miguel B. Araujo, Christy M. McCain, Robert E. Ricklefs, Brett R. Riddle (chair) Brett R. Riddle School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Ve- gas, USA Chair of the 2015 IBS MacArthur & Wilson Award Com- mittee To post jobs, advertisements, or other announcements please contact the Frontiers of Biogeography editoral office (frontiersofbiogeography@googlemail.com). Advertisements are $50 per quarter page for professional or institutional positions. Announcements are free to members for vacancies in their lab. All advertisements and announcements also appear at no additional cost on the IBS facebook pa- ge (in abbreviated form) and on the IBS Blog (in long, or longer form). frontiers of biogeography 6.2 2014 — © 2014 the authors; journal compilation © 2014 The International Biogeography Society