Author: Graziella Iossa

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Measuring functional connectivity using butterflies

Long-term datasets yield a great deal of information and are increasingly used to inform conservation measures. In the first video of the new year, Gary Powney and Tom Oliver show how long-term monitoring data on the Speckled Wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria) from the UK monitoring butterfly scheme can be used to assess functional connectivity of the landscape. In a paper recently published in Methods, Gary … Continue reading Measuring functional connectivity using butterflies

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Journal updates

Explaining the cover image for issue 2.6

The cover image for the last issue of the year of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is a biological soil crust (BSC), a community which may be composed by mosses, lichens, liveworths fungi and bacteria that are prevalent in drylands worldwide. Lichen-dominated BSCs (like the one in the image) affect multiple ecosystem functions in those habitats where they are present, including carbon and nitrogen cycling, … Continue reading Explaining the cover image for issue 2.6

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Journal updates

Issue 2.6

Our last issue for 2011 is out. Issue 2.6 is packed with the latest methodological developments. We have four new articles on monitoring: from positional accuracy in the field by Mike Dodd to distance sampling butterflies by Nick Isaac and colleagues, to how to account for non-independent detection of individuals by Julien Martin and collaborators and, finally, to a class of spatial capture-recapture models for … Continue reading Issue 2.6

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