We are very excited to announce the launch of our new podcast! Listen to MEEin3 to hear the latest methods in ecology and evolution in just three minutes.
Got three minutes to spare? Listen now to the pilot episode, in which Dr Chloe Robinson tells us about her method for preserving benthic arthropods for DNA metabarcoding.
Continue reading “MEEin3 – Our New Podcast Launches Today!”The sixth issue of the year of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is out now! This issue features four Applications and one Practical Tools article, as well as methods for standardising biologging data, marking mosquitoes, calculating heterogeneity indices and much more. And scroll down to find out the story behind the sleepy seal on this month’s cover! Featured Articles Distance sampling of high-density species Line-transect … Continue reading June Issue Out Now!
We are inviting contributions from LGBTQ+ ecologists and evolutionary biologists for a series of blog posts across the British Ecological Society journals for UK Pride Month, which takes place in June. The series, called Rainbow Research, aims to promote visibility and inclusion of researchers from the LGBTQ+ community with posts promoting them and their research. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one … Continue reading Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!
The May Issue of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is now online! This issue includes five Featured Articles selected by our Senior Editor Aaron Ellison, highlighting methods for identifying flow modules in ecological networks, detecting rare terrestrial mammals, assessing functional diversity in plants and more! We also have 12 articles, including one Practical Tools and two Applications, which are completely free to read. Find out … Continue reading May Issue Out Now
Associate Editor Natalie Cooper introduces our exciting new cross-journal Special Feature ‘Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change‘. Below you can find out all about the scope of the Special Feature and how to submit your manuscript proposal.
Continue reading “Call for Proposals: Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change”
Spring is in the air which means it’s time for our April Issue! This issue features two Applications and two Practical Tools articles, as well as methods for quantifying macronutrient content in invertebrates, mapping forest leaf area density, classifying avian vocal activity and much more! Plus, read on to discover more about our intriguing cover image.
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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 2020 award, based on articles published in Volume 11 – in the coming weeks we will hear from the shortlisted authors with the stories behind their articles. A big congratulations to all the authors for their impressive work!
Continue reading “Robert May Prize 2020 – The Shortlist”Earlier this year, the BES Movement Ecology Special Interest Group held a competition to find the best animal movement maps in four categories: ‘pretty’, ‘nerdy’, ‘dynamic’ and ‘RMap’ (for maps produced entirely using R).
The results of the vote are in, and the winner of the RMap Category is Pratik Gupte from the University of Groningen, who used R to create this beautiful map of elephant movements across thermal landscapes. Here, we asked Pratik for the story behind the elephant map.
Continue reading “Mapping Animal Movement in R: The Science and the Art”We are looking for an engaging researcher with expertise in the fields of evolutionary biology and ecology and a passion for communicating new methods. They will work with our current Editor to continue delivering high-quality content on the blog. The Editor will gain excellent experience in commissioning, writing and editing – as well as having early access to articles on the most cutting-edge methods in … Continue reading Blog Associate Editor Wanted!
Our third issue of the year is now online!
This month we have five Applications and two Practical Tools articles, all of which are completely free to read!
Senior Editor Rob Freckleton has selected six featured articles, including methods for defining and evaluating predictions of joint species distribution models, inferring extinction date of a species and choosing cost‐effective indicators for conservation decisions. Find out all about them below.
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