2023 Richard and Minnie Windler Award Recipients

Abstract

The Richard and Minnie Windler Award recognizes the authors of the best systematics and ecology papers published in Castanea during the previous year. For 2022, authors of two articles were selected as winners: Katherine Culatta, Alexander Krings, Lilian P. Matallana-Ramirez, and Ross Whetten for their article, “Clarifying Taxonomic Boundaries in Nuphar sagittifolia (Nymphaeaceae): Insights from Morphology and Population Genetic Diversity” (Castanea 87[1]:81–104), and Amy Hessl, Andrew M. Liebhold, and Morgan L. Leef for their article, “Dendrochronological Reconstruction of the Historical Invasion of Balsam Woolly Adelgid, Adelges piceae, Feeding on Canaan Fir, Abies balsamea subsp. phanerolepis in the Central Appalachian Mountains” (Castanea 87[1]:1–11). Nuphar sagittifolia, the Cape Fear Spatterdock, is recognized as rare in the three states in which it occurs, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Conservation has been hampered not only by its close relationship with the more widespread, sympatric species Nuphar advena but by the appear-