Author: Harriet Rhodes

Code and Applications

Lost in taxonomic sampling? Maybe you should consider having some SOUPE!

Post provided by Nyniane Steinkampf–Pellecuer, Idriss Pelletan and Pauline Provini We are two PhD students and a researcher at the MECADEV lab of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris. As part of our research on birds’ evolution, we study the functional morphology of their organs to understand how their shape is linked to their function, and how they evolved. Due to the size of … Continue reading Lost in taxonomic sampling? Maybe you should consider having some SOUPE!

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Code and Applications

Testing Evolutionary Ecological and Community Ecological Outcomes with Matrix Projection Using R Package adapt3

Post provided by Richard P. Shefferson, University of Tokyo Matrix projection has become widely used by population ecologists to analyze and predict the behavior of wild populations of plants and animals… and sometimes even other, odder organisms (Salguero-Gómez et al. 2015; Salguero‐Gómez et al. 2016). Over the last few decades, the size and complexity of these models have increased dramatically, with matrix dimensions now ranging … Continue reading Testing Evolutionary Ecological and Community Ecological Outcomes with Matrix Projection Using R Package adapt3

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Journal updates, Peer Review

How to avoid a desk-rejection because your manuscript is the wrong type

Post provided by Dr. Aaron M. Ellison, Executive Editor at Methods in Ecology and Evolution You’ve worked for months, sometimes years, on developing and testing a new method, and spent a similar amount of time writing the manuscript. It’s finally finished and after navigating the online submission system and uploading and proofing your files, you press the “submit my manuscript” button. Back in the Dark … Continue reading How to avoid a desk-rejection because your manuscript is the wrong type

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What is series

What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)?

Post provided by Ané Cloete What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)? Estimating how many animals live in a given area is one of the most fundamental challenges in conservation. For species that are easy to see such as large mammals on open plains, for example, this is manageable. But for cryptic species that hide from view, counting them directly is often impossible. This is where … Continue reading What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)?

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Conferences and Meetings

Organising the BES Data and Code Hackathon

Post provided by Natalie Cooper, MEE Senior Editor In my last blog post I wrote generally about why and how to organise a hackathon. To help make those instructions a little clearer, below I provide an example from the BES Data and Code Hackathon we ran 29th-30th September 2025. Note that technically this was really a datathon rather than a hackathon! We followed the outline … Continue reading Organising the BES Data and Code Hackathon

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Conferences and Meetings

The What, Why and How of Hackathons

Post provided by Natalie Cooper, MEE Senior Editor In September 2025 we ran a hackathon to collect data for a paper on data- and code-sharing across the BES journals. After the event, we thought it might be nice to share what we learned about hackathons here on the MEE blog. Massive thanks to all the participants of the BES Data and Code Hackathon for their … Continue reading The What, Why and How of Hackathons

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Robert May Prize

Peter Dietrich: Advancing plant biomass measurements: Integrating smartphone-based 3D scanning techniques for enhanced ecosystem monitoring

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Peter Dietrich’s article ‘Advancing plant biomass measurements: Integrating smartphone-based 3D scanning techniques for enhanced ecosystem monitoring‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About the paper What … Continue reading Peter Dietrich: Advancing plant biomass measurements: Integrating smartphone-based 3D scanning techniques for enhanced ecosystem monitoring

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Maia Austen: A computational framework to characterize and compare the tonal repertoires of toothed whales

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Maia Austen’s article ‘A computational framework to characterize and compare the tonal repertoires of toothed whales‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About the paper  … Continue reading Maia Austen: A computational framework to characterize and compare the tonal repertoires of toothed whales

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Xiaotian Zheng: Spatial-statistical downscaling with uncertainty quantification in biodiversity modelling

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Xiaotian Zheng’s article ‘Spatial-statistical downscaling with uncertainty quantification in biodiversity modelling‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About the paper  What is your shortlisted paper about, and … Continue reading Xiaotian Zheng: Spatial-statistical downscaling with uncertainty quantification in biodiversity modelling

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Robin Boyd: Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Robin Boyd’s article ‘Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. Read Robs previous … Continue reading Robin Boyd: Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data

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