Old news, I know – but back in June Jarrett Byrnes, of i’m a chordata! urochordata!, did a great piece of research blogging on one of our earliest papers, Do not log-transform count data. It’s well worth reading, if you haven’t already! Edit: Fixed the link! Continue reading Methods blogging
Methods in Ecology and Evolution stopped being available to everyone at the start of this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still access it for free! For starters, you can encourage your institutional librarian to sign up for free access to volumes 1 and 2, in perpetuity, by directing them to this opt-in form. You can also get free access to Methods as a … Continue reading Accessing Methods in Ecology and Evolution
As you can see, there’s a huge variety across the articles we’ve most recently accepted for publication: Guidelines for estimating repeatability Matthew Wolak, Daphne Fairbairn and Yale Paulsen Reservations about preservations: storage methods affect δ13C signatures differently even in closely related soil fauna Eveline Krab, Richard Van Logtestijn, Hans Cornelissen and Matty Berg How safe is mist netting? evaluating the risk of injury and mortality … Continue reading Newly accepted articles
Following on from our previous updates, the latest round of manuscripts accepted by the Methods in Ecology and Evolution board include: Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function by Nicholas Gotelli, Werner Ulrich and Fernando Maestre Comparison of seed phenolic extraction and assay methods by Kristen Granger, Robert Gallagher, E. Fuerst and J. Alldredge Temporal scaling of episodic point estimates of seed predation … Continue reading Newly accepted articles
March may be a distant memory to some, but at the Methods in Ecology and Evolution office it’s very much on our minds as we’ve just received the March update to our top papers. Freya Harrison’s review article on getting started with meta-analysis remains our most downloaded paper (and you can listen to a podcast on getting started with meta-analysis if you’re pushed for time!), … Continue reading Top papers for March
We’re pleased to announce that Luke Harmon has become the newest member of the Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial board, taking up the role of Associate Editor. Luke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho, whose research interests focus on developing new comparative methods and applying them to large phylogenetic datasets: Ongoing progress in building the tree of life provides a rare … Continue reading New addition to the editorial board
Another round of exciting papers have been accepted by the Methods in Ecology and Evolution team, including Model-aided learning for adaptive management of natural resources: an evolutionary design perspective by Jeroen Groot and Walter Rossing Accounting for non-independent detection when estimating abundance of organisms with a Bayesian approach by Julien Martin, Jeffrey Royle, Darryl Mackenzie, Holly Edwards, Marc Kery and Beth Gardner An integrated model … Continue reading Newly accepted articles
In celebration of the UN’s International Year of Forests, and the British Ecological Society’s Symposium on Forests and Global Change, the Journal of Applied Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution have worked together to bring you two complementary virtual issues in these areas: one dealing with environmental management, and the other the most relevent new methodological developments in forest and global change research. Sample … Continue reading Virtual Issues on Forests and Global Change
We’ve just been given the latest stats on our top downloaded articles for February, which make for some interesting reading. As you will (hopefully!) already know, Methods in Ecology and Evolution switched from being free for all to opt-in only at the start of this year, and we’ve seen some dramatic changes in download patterns since the switchover. Our Application papers have been heavily downloaded … Continue reading Top papers for February
Another busy month for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial team, with a host of new papers due to appear on Early View over the coming weeks, including: Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests by Shannon Pelini, Francis Bowles, Aaron Ellison, Nicholas Gotelli, Nathan Sanders and Robert Dunn A simple polytomy resolver for dated … Continue reading Newly accepted articles
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