The national stage of the Brian Moss Student Competition Award has concluded!
We are delighted to have received applications from 20 countries and would like to stress the high quality of the submitted papers.
Congratulations to all participants—and especially to the authors whose papers will advance to the international stage of the competition!
The list of candidates moving to the international stage is now available:
(NB: some participants moved directly to the international stage because there were no other candidates proposed in the same country. These participants are indicated by the mention direct cf. last column of the table)
Name first author | Title of article | Journal | Country | |
| Mara Inés Sagua | Unraveling the effect of land use on the bacterioplankton community composition from highly impacted shallow lakes at a regional scale | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Argentina | |
| Christopher Keneally | Organic matter accumulation drives methylotrophic methanogenesis and microbial ecology in a hypersaline coastal lagoon | Limnology and Oceanography | Australia | |
| Thomas Fuß | Geodiversity of a European river network controls algal biodiversity and function. | Commun. Earth Environ | Austria | |
| Pablo Prado | Andean Lakes: a proposal for lake districts | Inland Waters | Bolivia | direct |
| Renan Silva Arruda | Cyanopeptides occurrence and diversity in a Brazilian tropical reservoir: exploring relationships with water quality | Environmental Pollution | Brazil | |
| Biljana Rimcheska | Diversity and structure of macroinvertebrate communities in permanent small streams and rivers in Eastern Balkans | Hydrobiologia | Bulgaria | direct |
| Gabriel Balagizi Baguma | Effect of tilapia cage culture on algae and cyanobacteria communities in the bays of Bukavu basin, Lake Kivu, DR Congo | J. Great Lakes Research | D.R. Congo | direct |
| Samuel Dijoux | Differences in Tri-Trophic Community Responses to Temperature-Dependent Vital Rates, Thermal Niche Mismatches and Temperature-Size Rule | Ecology Letters | Czech Rep | direct |
| Anna Oprei | Migrating ripples create streambed heterogeneity altering microbial diversity and metabolic activity. | Limnology and Oceanography | Germany | |
| Luca Bonacina | Effects of water temperature on freshwater macroinvertebrates: a systematic review. | Biological Rev. | Italy | direct |
| Hiromichi Suzuki | Differences in factors determining taxon-based and trait-based community structures: a field test using zooplankton | Limnology and Oceanography | Japan | |
| José Daniel Cuevas-Lara | Organic matter processing by heterotrophic bacterioplankton in a large tropical river: relating elemental composition and potential carbon mineralization. | PLOS One | Mexico | |
| Dianneke Van Wijk | Regime shifts in shallow lakes explained by critical turbidity | Water Research | The Netherlands | direct |
| Martha Jolly | Managing Isolation: Implementing In‐Stream Barriers to Exclude Introduced Trout From Fragmented Native Freshwater Fish Refuges | River Research and Applications | New Zealand | |
| Shea Guinto | Insights on the connectivity,genetic diversity, and population structure of Arctodiaptomus dorsalis (Marsh, 1907)(Copepoda: Calanoida: Diaptomidae) in the Philippines. | J.Crustacean Biology | Philippines | direct |
| Martyna Budziak | Effect of microplastic particles on the population growth rate and clearance rate of selected ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora) | Environmental Sci Pollution Research | Poland | direct |
| Franca Stabile | Fate and biological uptake of polystyrene nanoparticles in freshwater wetland ecosystems. | Environmental Science: Nano | Sweden | direct |
| Anahí López Rodríguez | Longitudinal changes on ecological diversity of Neotropical fish along a 1700 km river gradient show declines induced by dams. | Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation | Uruguay | |
| Maria Sol Lisboa | Groundwater inputs could be a significant but often overlooked source of phosphorus in lake ecosystems | Scientific Reports | USA |