ESA 2004 was a great success.  A total of 498 delegates from across Australia, New Zealand and overseas enjoyed 4 days of outstanding presentations and posters from all students involved. 

Student prizes at 2004  - click on the title for the extended abstract (PDF)

ESA Marilyn Fox Award for best inaugeral presentation at a conference: Julia Cooke
The Ecology of Ward's Weed: A weed of the Southern Rangelands of Australia

ESA Best spoken paper at the conference: Karen Marsh

ESA Best Poster:  Alison Miller
"Being Eaten: What's more Influential - You or Your Neighbour?"

ESA Best spoken paper runner-up: Natasha Wiggins
Filming Foraging Folivores - Effects of PSM's & Plant Spacial Arrangement on Brushtail Possums

ESA Best poster runner-up: Robyn Sinclair
Evolutionary Ecology of Leaf Mining: A Survey of Abundance & Distribution

Blackwell/EMR prize for a spoken presentation on management or restoration: Julia Cooke
The Ecology of Ward's Weed: A weed of the Southern Rangelands of Australia

Blackwell/EMR prize for a poster presentation on management or restoration: Janet Newell
Are Soil Seed Banks Affected by the Reintroduction of Bilbies & Bettongs?

Society for Conservation Biology Prize for a spoken paper on conservation - joint award: Liana Joseph
Optimal Monitoring Strategies for Listing Threatened Species

Society for Conservation Biology Prize for a spoken paper on conservation - joint award: Monika Rhodes
Application of Network Theory to the Conservation of Habitat Trees in Suburban Environments

Society for Conservation Biology Prize for a poster paper on conservation: Peter Turner
Impacts of Bridal Creeper - Implications of Restoration

Australian Flora Foundation prize for a spoken paper on the biology or cultivation of an Australian plant: John Hall
Weevil Pollination of Australian Cycad Lepidozamia peroffskyana

Rainforest CRC prize for best presentation on a rainforest topic: Jessie Wells
Spacial Ecology of Regeneration in Secondary Rainforests: Seed Dispersal & Ecological Traits in Plant Species