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Journal Issues

June 2022 Issue Out Now

Our June Issue is now online! This issue contains 16 brilliant articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for extracting forest information from LiDAR data, digitising wood samples, optimising stable isotope sampling design and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our butterfly cover. Featured Articles treetop Individual tree detection and crown delineation are … Continue reading June 2022 Issue Out Now

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Theoretical methods

Hidden Markov models have pitfalls…

…but also opportunities! Hidden Markov models (HMMs) and their extensions are attractive methods for analysing ecological data. In recent years, a variety of extensions of the basic model have been proposed, yielding great opportunities for ecological inference. Yet, as these models become more complex and challenging to understand, it is important to consider what pitfalls these methods have and what opportunities there are for future … Continue reading Hidden Markov models have pitfalls…

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LGBTQ+

Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

Following the success of last year’s Rainbow Research blog series, we are once again inviting contributions from LGBTQ+ ecologists and evolutionary biologists for a series of blog posts across the British Ecological Society journals to celebrate UK Pride Month this June. The series aims to promote visibility and inclusion of researchers from the LGBTQ+ community with posts and videos promoting them and their research. Each post … Continue reading Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!

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Journal Issues

May 2022 Issue Out Now!

Our May Issue is now online! This issue contains 19 fantastic articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for investigating animal movements, predicting species co-existence patterns, exploring primary production in macroalgal canopies and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our beautiful bee and sunflower cover. Featured Articles PhycoCanopy *open access* Macroalgal … Continue reading May 2022 Issue Out Now!

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Robert May Prize

Low-cost open electronics like the Raspberry Pi are revolutionizing biological research

Post provided by Jolle Jolles Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper published in the journal by an author at the start of their career. 10 Early Career Researchers made the shortlist for this year’s prize, including Jolle Jolles, a postdoctoral researcher at CREAF, Barcelona. In this interview, Jolle shares insights on his paper Broad-scale applications … Continue reading Low-cost open electronics like the Raspberry Pi are revolutionizing biological research

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Cover Image Stories

New hope for urban wildlife

Post provided by Dan Parker, Dr Stanislav Roudavski, Therésa Jones & Dr Kylie Soanes The cover of our April issue shows a small model of a 3D-printed artificial hollow created by Parker et al. as part of their article ‘A framework for computer-aided design and manufacturing of habitat structures for cavity-dependent animals‘. In this cover story, the authors explain their method and what it means … Continue reading New hope for urban wildlife

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Journal Issues

April 2022 Issue Out Now!

Our April Issue is now online! This issue contains 14 brilliant articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for creating habitat structures for cavity‐dependent animals, quantifying small animal activity, identifying trends in multivariate time series and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles. Featured Articles The einet package *Open Access* Understanding noise in networks and finding the right … Continue reading April 2022 Issue Out Now!

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Robert May Prize

Robert May Prize 2021 – The Shortlist

Each year, Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best article by an early career researcher. Named for the late Lord May, the award recognises an outstanding ecologist or evolutionary biologist within five years of finishing their PhD. Today we announce the shortlisted papers for the 2021 award, based on articles published in Volume 12 – in the coming weeks we will hear from … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2021 – The Shortlist

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Conferences and Meetings

Register now for ISEC 2022!

Post provided by Dominic Henry, Res Altwegg & Jasper Slingsby Do you have a passion for biodiversity, and a flair for numbers? Would you like to network with like-minded individuals? Perhaps it’s time to find out more about cutting edge research at the interface of statistics and ecology? If the answer to any of these questions is “YES!”, then you need to check out ISEC2022. … Continue reading Register now for ISEC 2022!

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Journal Issues

March 2022 Issue Out Now!

Our March Issue is now online! Our third issue of the year contains 21 fantastic articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for recognition of taxonomic entities in literature, precipitating and purifying environmental and ancient DNA, estimating wildlife abundance in tropical forests and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles. Featured Articles ubms (Application) Obtaining unbiased … Continue reading March 2022 Issue Out Now!

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