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International Womans Day

International Women’s Day 2025- Natalie Cooper

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we are excited to share a collection of blog posts showcasing the work of some of the BES community. In each post, they discuss their experiences in ecology, as well as what this year’s theme, ‘Accelerate Action’, means to them. What work do you do?   I’m a macroecologist and macroevolutionary biologist interested in understanding broad scale patterns of biodiversity. … Continue reading International Women’s Day 2025- Natalie Cooper

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Journal Issues

Our March 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 Bayesian views of generalized additive modelling This study aims to highlight useful links (and differences) between Bayesian and frequentist approaches to smoothing, as detailed in the statistical literature, in an accessible way, with a focus on the mgcv implementation. By … Continue reading Our March issue is out now!

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International Womans Day

International Women’s Day 2025 – Lydia Morley

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we are excited to share a collection of blog posts showcasing the work of some of the BES community. In each post, they discuss their experiences in ecology, as well as what this year’s theme, ‘Accelerate Action’, means to them. What work do you do?   I’m really interested in how spatial context and scale impact eco-evolutionary dynamics. Right now, … Continue reading International Women’s Day 2025 – Lydia Morley

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International Womans Day

International Women’s Day 2025- Nomthi Khanyile

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, we are excited to share a collection of blog posts showcasing the work of some of the BES community. In each post, they discuss their experiences in ecology, as well as what this year’s theme, ‘Accelerate Action’, means to them. What work do you do?  I consider myself primarily an ecologist and, perhaps secondarily, an entomologist. I am fascinated … Continue reading International Women’s Day 2025- Nomthi Khanyile

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Journal Issues

Our February 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 Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems This review presents 10 practical guidelines for ground-based research of terrestrial microclimates, covering methods and best practices from initial conceptualisation of the study to data analyses. The guidelines encompass the … Continue reading Our February issue is out now!

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Ecology

Avoiding Confusion: Modelling Image Identification Surveys with Classification Errors

Post provided by Jon Barry We are a group comprised of statisticians, ecologists and a computer scientist. Back in 2021 when this work started, we were all employed at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquacultural Science (Cefas) at Lowestoft, U.K. Since then, Robert, our computer scientist, has ‘jumped ship’ (no pun intended) to the Alan Turing Institute. We were aware that AI image recognition … Continue reading Avoiding Confusion: Modelling Image Identification Surveys with Classification Errors

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Journal Issues

Our January issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including our first Felsenstein Review! Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Simpson’s tachytely or bradytely? The importance of quantifying rate uncertainty The spectacular variation in species forms and richness across space and time can be explored using sophisticated and powerful tools recently developed by evolutionary … Continue reading Our January issue is out now!

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Journal Issues, Methods papers

Issue 11.9: Methods for individual bird recognition, zooplankton sampling and more!

The September issue of Methods is now online! 11.9 JPEG

We have a larger issue of 14 articles this month, featuring  methods for individual bird recognition, zooplankton sampling, coral health assessment and much more.

Senior Editor Lee Hsiang Liow has selected five featured articles – find out about them below. We also have three Applications, three Practical Tools articles and 11 articles that are freely available to everyone – no subscription required!

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Ecology, Field Methods, Methods papers, Robert May Prize

Navigating the data-rich world of aquatic acoustic telemetry

Post provided by Kim Whoriskey

Early Career Researcher Kim Whoriskey takes us behind the Methods paper ‘Current and emerging statistical techniques for aquatic telemetry data: A guide to analysing spatially discrete animal detections’ which led to her being shortlisted for our Robert May Prize in 2019.

Understanding how aquatic animals move is becoming increasingly important for protecting them. Knowing where they migrate, how long they stay, and what they do when they travel through changing marine environments provides us with key information on movement corridors, habitat hotspots, and changing population distributions. This information can then be used to help manage and conserve many different aquatic species, from developing guidelines for recreational fishing practices to defining marine spatial planning measures.

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Our August Issue is OUT NOW

The August issue of Methods is now online!Cover JPEG

We have a larger issue of 14 articles this month, featuring tools for microbial evolution experiments, automatic biomass estimation of invertebrates, labeling biological samples and much more.

Senior Editor Bob O’Hara has selected five featured articles this month – find out about them below. We also have four Applications, one Practical Tools article and 10 articles that are freely available to everyone – no subscription required!

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