The winner will be selected in the coming weeks so watch this space for future announcements!

This year’s shortlisted candidates are:

Alien plants and flower visitors disrupt the seasonal dynamics of mutualistic networks – Blanca Arroyo-Correa

Do benefits of seed dispersal and caching by scatterhoarders outweigh the costs of predation? An example with oaks and yellow‐necked mice – Michał Bogdziewicz

Root‐niche separation between savanna trees and grasses is greater on sandier soils – Madelon Case

A mechanistic and empirically supported lightning risk model for forest trees – Evan Gora

Tree mycorrhizal type mediates the strength of negative density dependence in temperate forests – Feng Jiang

Frost maintains forests and grasslands as alternate states in a montane tropical forest–grassland mosaic; but alien tree invasion and warming can disrupt this balance – Atul Joshi

Seaweed functional diversity revisited: Confronting traditional groups with quantitative traits – Alizée Mauffrey

Priority effects will impede range shifts of temperate tree species into the boreal forest – Kevin Solarik