Riccardo Valentini awarded with the Ernst Haeckel Prize

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The European Ecological Federation (EEF) communicated that awarded Riccardo Valentini with the “Ernst Haeckel Prize”, the EEF Award, which honors a senior ecologist for outstanding contributions to European ecological science.

Awarded for the first time in 2011, the prize is named after Ernst Haeckel a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of invertebrates and introduced in the scientific literature the term “ecology” for the first time.

The Council of EEF – which is made up of ecological societies from European countries and includes 17 member societies representing more than 8000 ecologists from more than 20 European countries – selected Prof. Valentini in consideration of his research activity and his internationally known contribution to the understanding of the role of forest in carbon cycle and carbon sequestration and to the implementation of policies for the control of carbon emission.

The plenary address of the “Ernst Haeckel Prize” will open the 13th EEF and the 25th Italian Society of Ecology’s (SItE) joint conference Ecology at the Interface, that will take place in Rome, 21-25 September 2015, and where Prof. Valentini will give the lecture “The coupled human – climate system: future challenges and vulnerabilities”.

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