Richard and Minnie Windler Award Recipients – 2019
SYSTEMATICS Quilling with (left to right) Lytton Musselman, Peter Schafran, and Carl Taylor. ECOLOGY Peter W. Schafran Elizabeth A. Zimmer W. Carl Taylor Lytton J. Musselman Timothy M. Shearman G. Geoff Wang Robert K. Peet Thomas R. Wentworth Michael P. Schafale Alan S. Weakley The Richard and Minnie Windler Award recognizes the authors of the best systematics and ecology papers published in Castanea during the previous year. For 2019, authors of two papers were selected as winners: Peter W. Schafran, Elizabeth A. Zimmer, W. Carl Taylor, and Lytton J. Musselman for their work entitled “A Whole Chloroplast Genome Phylogeny of Diploid Species of Isoëtes (Isoëtaceae, Lycopodiophyta) in the Southeastern United States.” (Castanea 83[2]:224–235), and Timothy M. Shearman, G. Geoff Wang, Robert K. Peet, Thomas R. Wentworth, Michael P. Schafale, and Alan S. Weakley for their work entitled “A Community Analysis for Forest Ecosystems with Natural Growth of Persea spp.