Another week, another set of manuscripts accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: Functional rarefaction for species abundance data Carlo Ricotta, Sandrine Pavoine, Giovanni Bacaro and Alicia Acosta Sampling period, size, and duration influences measures of bat species richness from acoustic surveys Samuel Skalak, Richard Sherwin and R. Brigham Barcoding’s next top model: an evaluation of nucleotide substitution models for specimen identification Rupert Collins, Laura Boykin, Robert Cruickshank and Karen Armstrong Asessing individual heterogeneity using model selection criteria: How many mixture … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Our latest round of accepted articles include: A comparative study of ecological specialization estimators Timothée Poisot, Elsa Canard, Nicolas Mouquet and Michael Hochberg An objective, niche-based approach to indicator species selection Simon Butler, Robert Freckleton, Anna Renwick and Ken Norris Selecting pseudo-absences for species distribution models: how, where and how many? Morgane Barbet-Massin, Frédéric Jiguet, Cécile Albert and Wilfried Thuiller Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation Seth Wenger and Julian Olden Cascade Multivariate Regression Tree: a novel approach for modelling nested explanatory … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Our most recently accepted articles include: phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things) Liam J. Revell Individual variation in response to intraspecific competition: problems with inference from growth variation measures Sigurd Einum, Torbjørn Forseth and Anders Finstad Testing the time-for-speciation effect in the assembly of regional biotas Daniel Rabosky An alternative SADIE local clustering index for studying spatial patterns Baohua Li, Larry Madden and Xiangming Xu Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Articles we’ve recently accepted for publication include: Heterogeneous patterns of availability for detection during visual surveys: spatiotemporal variation in sea turtle dive-surfacing behaviour on a feeding ground Jordan Thomson, Andrew Cooper, Derek Burkholder, Michael Heithaus and Lawrence Dill Breaking the sticks: a hierarchical change-point model for estimating ontogenetic shifts with stable isotope data Matthieu Authier, Céline Martin, Aurore Ponchon, Stéphanie Steelandt, Ilham Bentaleb and Christophe Guinet State-space framework for estimating measurement error from double-tagging telemetry experiments Arliss Winship, Salvador Jorgensen, Scott Shaffer, Ian Jonsen, Patrick Robinson, Daniel Costa and Barbara Block Quantifying individual variation in reaction norms: … Continue reading Recently accepted articles