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Annals of Botany Graduate Prize Winner
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Matt Daws: Large-seeded species take more risks
We are delighted to award the first Annals of Botany Graduate Prize for a paper reporting work from a thesis to Dr Matthew Daws. In the paper, Germination responses to water potential in neotropical pioneers suggest large-seeded species take more risks, Daws et al. (2008) focus on mechanisms of niche partitioning relating to seeds and seedling establishment, addressing the questions of how trees avoid competition and extinction by using resources in different ways or occupying different micro-sites. Matt worked with a well-defined