The winners of the first edition of PhD Award in Ecology - Amadeu Dias Foundation, organized by SPECO – Portuguese Society of Ecology – have been announced. The top three will present their work at the 16th National Ecology Meeting (16º Encontro Nacional de Ecologia), which will take place on November 9 and 10 at the University of Lisbon.

Ricardo Rocha, Alice Nunes, researchers at cE3c (Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes) from the University of Lisbon, and Elsa Teresa Rodrigues researcher at CFE (Centre for Functional Ecology), from the University of Coimbra were, selected respectively for the first, second and third prize, by the jury invited to evaluate the applications for the PhD Award in Ecology - Amadeu Dias Foundation.