The Crafoord Prize in Biosciences 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences 2011 to Ilkka HanskiUniversity of Helsinki, Finland, “for his pioneering studies on how spatial variation affects the dynamics of animaland plant populations”.Patches of diversity in increasingly fragmented habitats This year’s Crafoord Prize Laureate has establishedhimself, in his more than 30-year career, asone of the world’s most eminent ecologists. Hereceives the prize for developing a range of newanalytical methods and mathematical modelsin ecology. These are today widely