C. Hart Merriam Award

|+List of recipients with their institutions

! Year

! Recipient

! Institution

! 1976

| James N. Layne

| Archbold Biological Station, University of Florida, and Cornell University

! 1977

| J. Knox Jones, Jr.

| Texas Tech University and University of Kansas

! 1978

| James S. Findley

| University of New Mexico

! 1979

| Terry A. Vaughan

| Northern Arizona University and Colorado State University

! 1980

| Robert J. Baker

| Texas Tech University

! 1981

| John F. Eisenberg

| University of Florida, National Zoological Park, University of Maryland, and University of British Columbia

! 1983

| James L. Patton

| Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley

! 1985

| Michael H. Smith

| Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and University of Georgia

! 1986

| {{ill|William Z. Lidicker, Jr.|de}}

| Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley

! 1987

| {{ill|Hugh H. Genoways|de}}

| University of Nebraska State Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Texas Tech University

! 1988

| Jerry R. Choate

| Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University

! 1989

| James H. Brown

| University of New Mexico, University Arizona, University of Utah, and UCLA

! 1991

| Timothy H. Clutton-Brock

| Cambridge University, Cambridge, England

! 1992

| Guy G. Musser

| Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History

! 1993

| Charles J. Krebs

| University of British Columbia

! 1994

| Gail R. Michener

| University of Lethbridge

! 1995

| M. Brock Fenton

| York University

! 1996

| Katherine Ralls

| National Zoological Park

! 1997

| Kenneth B. Armitage

| University of Kansas

! 1998

| Thomas H. Kunz

| Boston University

! 1999

| Carleton J. Phillips

| Texas Tech University, Illinois State University, and Hofstra University

! 2000

| Michael A. Mares

| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, and University of Pittsburgh

! 2001

| Theodore H. Fleming

| University of Miami

! 2002

| George O. Batzli

| University of Illinois

! 2003

| R. Terry Bowyer

| University of Alaska, Fairbanks

! 2004

| {{ill|O. James Reichman|de}}

| National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara

! 2005

| Kay E. Holekamp

| Michigan State University

! 2006

| David Macdonald

| Oxford University

! 2007

| Robert S. Hoffmann

| National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and University of Kansas

! 2008

| Christopher Dickman

| University of Sydney

! 2009

| Richard Ostfeld

| Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

! 2010

| Gerardo Ceballos

| Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México

! 2012

| James Estes

| University of California, Santa Cruz and USGS

! 2013

| Rudy Boonstra

| University of Toronto

! 2014

| Denise Dearing

| University of Utah

! 2015

| {{ill|Bruce D. Patterson|de|Bruce D. Patterson (Zoologe)}}

| The Field Museum of Natural History

! 2016

| Joel S. Brown

| University of Illinois at Chicago

! 2017

| Mark S. Boyce

| University of Alberta

! 2018

| Stan Boutin

| University of Alberta

! 2019

| Hopi E. Hoekstra

| Harvard University

! 2020

| Jean-Michel Gaillard

| University of Lyon

! 2021

| Michael R. Willig

| University of Connecticut