The Crafoord Prize in Biosciences 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences for 2011 to Ilkka Hanski, University of Helsinki, Finland, “for his pioneering studies on how spatial variation affects the dynamics of animal and plant populations".This year´s Crafoord Prize Laureate has established himself, in his more than 30-year career, as one of the world´s most eminent ecologists. He receives the prize for developing a range of new analytical methods and mathematical models in ecology. Today, these are widely used to help scientists investigate how animal and plant species are affected when their habitats undergo splitting owing, for example, to urbanisation, deforestation and climate change.
