Author: Harriet Rhodes

Code and Applications

An easy-to-manage tool for forest ecosystem modeling—The pnetr R package

Post provided by Xiaojie Gao I am a remote sensing ecologist currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Forest department of Harvard University. My research focuses on mapping and understanding the impacts of climate change and human activities on the terrestrial vegetation ecosystems. The development of the pnetr R package for forest ecosystem modeling was inspired by my own research interest in understanding how … Continue reading An easy-to-manage tool for forest ecosystem modeling—The pnetr R package

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Field Methods, LGBTQ+

Supporting safe and equitable access to field research

To celebrate Pride Month 2025, we are excited to share a series of blogs and podcasts highlighting useful articles and resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and researchers. In each post, the authors behind these resources explain what they are, how they came to produce them, and why they are important. In this post, Elizabeth shares fieldwork advice for researchers with marginalized identities. Post provided by Elizabeth N. … Continue reading Supporting safe and equitable access to field research

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Ecology

Charting the Unheard: A Primer for Analysing Toothed Whale Vocal Repertoires

Post provided by Maia Austen Introduction: Why toothed whale voices matter I’m a PhD candidate in the ONDAS Lab at the University of Vermont, advised by Dr. Laura May-Collado. My PhD looks to utilize machine learning analysis to better understand how and why dolphins communicate with each other. Toothed whales – like dolphins and belugas – are among the most acoustically sophisticated animals on Earth. … Continue reading Charting the Unheard: A Primer for Analysing Toothed Whale Vocal Repertoires

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Ecology

Predictability or pondering prediction

Post provided by Marieke Wesselkamp At the beginning of this project, we often found ourselves contemplating on the evolution of various environmental systems – some vast and global, others local. These were, for example, the trajectory of elephant populations in the Southern African Kruger national park over the next decades, the change in plant species composition on the roof the neighbour’s garage over the months, … Continue reading Predictability or pondering prediction

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Journal Issues

Our June Issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including papers from the special feature Innovation in Practice. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured ECKOchain: A FAIR blockchain‐based database for long‐term ecological data Open data practices in ecology are increasingly accepted, yet primary long-term ecological data remain hard to find. To incentivise open primary ecological … Continue reading Our June Issue is out now!

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Journal Issues

Our May 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 Impact of acoustic index parameters on soundscape comparisons Ecoacoustic indices are often used to characterise specific aspects of the acoustic environment. For several commonly used indices, the impacts of the parameter settings and sampling regimes on output values have … Continue reading Our May Issue is out now!

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Robert May Prize

Robert May Prize 2024: Winner announced for early career researcher award

We’re excited to announce Maëlis Kervellec as the winner of the 2024 Robert May Prize, celebrating the best article in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Winner: Maëlis Kervellec Research: ‘Bringing circuit theory into spatial occupancy models to assess landscape connectivity‘ About the research One of the wonders of ecological research is seeing clever innovations that bridge theoretical concepts with real-world conservation … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2024: Winner announced for early career researcher award

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Robert May Prize

Fay Morland: Including the invisible fraction in whole population studies: A guide to the genetic sampling of unhatched bird eggs

Throughout March and April, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2024 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. Fay Morland’s article‘ Including the invisible fraction in whole population studies: A guide to the genetic sampling of unhatched bird eggs‘ is one … Continue reading Fay Morland: Including the invisible fraction in whole population studies: A guide to the genetic sampling of unhatched bird eggs

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Robert May Prize

Becky Heath: Spatial ecosystem monitoring with a Multichannel Acoustic Autonomous Recording Unit (MAARU)

Throughout March and April, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2024 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. Becky Heath’s article ‘Spatial ecosystem monitoring with a Multichannel Acoustic Autonomous Recording Unit (MAARU)‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. The … Continue reading Becky Heath: Spatial ecosystem monitoring with a Multichannel Acoustic Autonomous Recording Unit (MAARU)

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Journal Issues

Our April 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 The fallacy of single imputation for trait databases: Use multiple imputation instead The past few years have seen the publication of many new trait databases. However, trait databases usually have many missing data. Biologists have developed several methods to impute … Continue reading Our April Issue is out now!

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