Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer les lauréats du prix Jussieu 2018, attribué pour le meilleur article paru dans Botany Letters en 2017.

João Rocha et ses collègues recevront la somme de 5 000 € pour poursuivre leurs recherches suite à l’article :

Morpho-environmental characterization of the genus Dianthus L. in the Iberian Peninsula: environmental trends for D. pungens group under climate change scenarios

Il a été publié dans le 3e fascicule du volume 164 de notre journal.

Le comité d’attribution du prix a motivé son choix ainsi :

“…the elevation range associated with each of the taxa of the group has been found to be a determinant of the higher resilience (defined as the diversity of responses to climate changes) of the group. They [the authors] proposed that the Dianthus pungens group should be considered as a species, all taxa within this group being therefore subspecies. The different subspecies displayed various morpho-environmental responses, some of them playing a major role in maintaining effective gene flow among geographically restricted populations. This very thorough study of an ill-defined group yielded innovative results that are highly relevant to some of the questions raised by species adaptation to climatic change.”

Lire l’annonce en anglais sur le site de notre éditeur Taylor & Francis.