The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. With entries spanning the 15th Volume of the journal, our Senior Editors carefully shortlisted the following 10 papers:
Natasha Klappstein: Step selection functions with non-linear and random effects
Nicolas Mongiardino Koch: Chronospaces: An R package for the statistical exploration of divergence times promotes the assessment of methodological sensitivity
Benjamin Van Doren: Nighthawk: Acoustic monitoring of nocturnal bird migration in the Americas
Jonathan Sauder: Scalable semantic 3D mapping of coral reefs with deep learning
Alba Motes Rodrigo: Precise tactile stimulation of worker ants by a robotic manipulator reveals that individual responses are density- and context-dependent
Fay Morland: Including the invisible fraction in whole population studies: A guide to the genetic sampling of unhatched bird eggs
Becky Heath: Spatial ecosystem monitoring with a Multichannel Acoustic Autonomous Recording Unit (MAARU)
Maëlis Kervellec: Bringing circuit theory into spatial occupancy models to assess landscape connectivity
Congratulations to all our shortlisted researchers and all our early career authors. We’ll be announcing the overall winner soon, so stay tuned for more!
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