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Journal Issues

September 2022 Issue Out Now!

Our September issue is now online! This issue contains 22 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for using the US National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), measuring understory vegetation structure, inducing cancer in invertebrates and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our magical marine cover. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) In this … Continue reading September 2022 Issue Out Now!

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Journal Issues

August 2022 Issue Out Now!

Our August Issue is now online! This issue contains 15 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for estimating forest above-ground biomass, tracing essential amino acid assimilation, autonomous biodiversity surveys and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our wonderful whale cover. Featured Articles Estimating forest above-ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning Improving the … Continue reading August 2022 Issue Out Now!

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Journal Issues

July 2022 Issue Out Now!

Our July Issue is now online! This issue contains 20 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for characterising soil bacterial biodiversity, identifying fish species in fish markets using eDNA, standarising and cleaning biodiversity data and much more! Plus, read the editorial about our switch to a gold open access model this month. Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles … Continue reading July 2022 Issue Out Now!

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LGBTQ+

Another year ALDER, another year wiser.

Pride Month is almost over, and to round off this year’s wonderful Rainbow Research blog series we are pleased to host this post from Lewis Bartlett announcing the launch of the ALDER Network: the British Ecological Society’s relaunched LGBTQIA+ Network. Hello readers! Welcome to my second year in a row getting to write a Rainbow Research blog post for the BES, and this Pride month … Continue reading Another year ALDER, another year wiser.

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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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