Author: Harriet Rhodes

Code and Applications, Field Methods

Teaching Models to Listen to Bats: The Story Behind BSG-BATS

Post provided by Katarina Meramo Bats are extraordinary animals. They fly, echolocate, and navigate in absolute darkness, and produce some of the most complex acoustic signals in the mammalian world. They pollinate, disperse seeds, control insect populations, and quietly hold ecosystems together. Yet, despite their importance, monitoring bats – particularly across large spatial and temporal scales – remains remarkably challenging. Over the past decade, bioacoustic … Continue reading Teaching Models to Listen to Bats: The Story Behind BSG-BATS

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Journal Issues

Our December issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read the last issue of the year to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Fast‐tracking ecological interpretation using bespoke quantitative large language models There is untapped potential to apply large language models (LLMs) to quantitative ecological and environmental datasets. Here, authors present a roadmap for designing and … Continue reading Our December issue is out now!

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Journal updates

Workflows: A New Paper Type for Methods

Beginning in 2026, Methods in Ecology and Evolution will accept submissions of a new paper type – Workflows – for consideration for review and eventual publication in the journal. Up until now, we have generally considered manuscripts that describe a way to organise existing methods into a useful sequence to analyse an interesting set of data, make one’s computational life easier, or creating a package … Continue reading Workflows: A New Paper Type for Methods

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Journal Issues

Our November issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats Passive acoustic monitoring of bats is used in a growing number of studies in applied and basic research. Despite the publication of good-practice recommendations, several unsettled debates persist about the … Continue reading Our November issue is out now!

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Journal Issues

Our October issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Advancing causal inference in ecology: Pathways for biodiversity change detection and attribution Here, authors address key challenges of biodiversity change detection and conservative causal attribution and propose solutions to overcome barriers in (1) biodiversity and driver data characteristics, (2) detection of change within both data types and (3) linking driver and biodiversity … Continue reading Our October issue is out now!

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Practical Tools

Making heatwaves in the wild: lessons from extreme fieldwork

Post provided by Pieter Arnold, Xuemeng Mu, James King We are a team of ecologists in Australia with keen interest in how plants and ecosystems will respond to climate change. Conducting research on the effects of forecasted climate change, and particularly extreme events like heatwaves, is extremely challenging to do in the field. We had to first convince ourselves that it would be possible to … Continue reading Making heatwaves in the wild: lessons from extreme fieldwork

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Journal Issues

Our September issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured DeepDiveR—A software for deep learning estimation of palaeodiversity from fossil occurrences The incompleteness of the fossil record presents a barrier to estimating changes in biodiversity which standard statistical methods struggle to account for. Here authors present DeepDiveR, an R package … Continue reading Our September issue is out now!

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Journal Issues

Our August issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Empirical ecology to support mechanistic modelling: Different objectives, better approaches and unique benefits Making mechanistic models credible requires empirical studies, but traditional study topics and designs often do not support them well. The models we use for modern problems need … Continue reading Our August issue is out now!

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Ecology

Catching Biodiversity in the Wind: How a Simple Dust Cloth Revolutionizes Airborne eDNA Monitoring

Post provided by Meng Yao Biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate worldwide. To protect it, we first need to monitor it—but tracking species traditionally requires significant time, expertise, and often expensive equipment. What if we could detect the presence of plants and animals just by sampling the air around us? As the principal investigator of the molecular ecology and biodiversity laboratory at Peking University, … Continue reading Catching Biodiversity in the Wind: How a Simple Dust Cloth Revolutionizes Airborne eDNA Monitoring

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