Almut Kelber, Professor at Lund University, takes us on a sweeping tour of the complex array of bird vision – from chickens to owls – to unravel how their ecology affects the way they see the world. This blog is part of our colourful countdown to the holiday season in which we’re celebrating the diversity and beauty of the natural world. Click here to read the rest of … Continue reading How do birds see the world?
Our December issue is online now! Our final issue of the year contains 16 fantastic articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution. This month we have methods for fine tuning biodiversity assessments, visual analysis of wood samples, analysing environmental audio recordings and much more! Read on to find out all about them. Featured Articles Dealing with software complexity in individual‐based models *open access* Individual-based models … Continue reading December Issue Out Now!
Post provided by SEEC The Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation (SEEC) invites you to ISEC2022 in Cape Town, South Africa, 27 June – 1 July 2022 – the first International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) to be held in Africa! Registration is now open and we would like to welcome all of you to join this exciting event. Statistical ecology is an inherently … Continue reading Countdown to the first ISEC in Africa!
Our November issue is online now! Our penultimate issue of the year contains 18 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution. This month we have methods for long-term acoustic monitoring, automated landmarking of 3D biological structures, assessing the movement of small mammals and more, plus two Applications and two Practical Tools articles for your reading. Find out more below! Featured Articles A primer on partially … Continue reading November Issue Out Now!
Post provided by Dr Rosie Sheward The 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) is being held Glasgow this week, and now more than ever before, the pressure is on for world leaders to agree on climate action to keep global warming below 1.5°c. In the lead up to the conference, we’re asking our editors and authors to discuss their research at the interface of climate … Continue reading Microscopic phytoplankton are storytellers of our oceans under climate change
Our October Issue is out now! It’s a bumper issue, with 26 articles presenting the latest methods in ecology and evolution. We have methods for measuring temporal change in alpha diversity, aerial imaging of field plots, analysing 3D morphology images and more, plus four Applications and five Practical Tools articles for your reading. Find out more below! Featured Articles The potential and practice of arboreal … Continue reading October Issue Out Now!
This year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held in Glasgow in November, and now more than ever before, the pressure is on for world leaders to agree on climate action to keep global warming below 1.5°c. In the lead up to the conference, we’re asking our editors and authors to share their research at the interface of climate and ecology. In this post, Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez of the University of Oxford presents research on the role of functional diversity in the response of tropical forests to climate change.
Continue reading “Functional Strategies to COP26”By Methods in Ecology and Evolution Executive Editor Aaron M. Ellison A recent Practical Tools article published in Methods in Ecology & Evolution described a foot snare used to capture jaguars and cougars in Brazil (Ribeiro de Araujo et al. 2021a). Within hours of the posting of the proofed version of the article on the Early View section of the journal’s website, comments on Twitter … Continue reading On foot snares and felids
We are now accepting article proposals for a new cross-journal Special Feature entitled ‘Active Remote Sensing for Ecology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation‘, a joint venture by the journals Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology and Journal of Applied Ecology. Here, the Special Feature’s Lead Editors Carlos Alberto Silva & Hooman Latifi explain the idea behind this Special Feature. Active … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Active Remote Sensing for Ecology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation
At the British Ecological Society journals we strongly encourage senior academics to review our manuscripts in collaboration with more junior members of their labs.
We believe that this is fantastic training for Early Career Researchers, whether it involves sitting down and combing through a manuscript together, or, if they already have some experience, the junior researcher writing the report and the senior researcher editing and adding comments later. We also recommend that the Early Career Researchers read our handy Guide to Peer Review before conducting their report.
This Peer Review Week, some of our past co-reviewers have kindly shared their thoughts on the process.
Continue reading “On the Benefits of Collaborative Peer Review”
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