It seems that from the number of submissions we receive at the journal, Methods in Ecology and Evolution has filled an important niche. As our editor-in-chief, Rob Freckleton, wrote to introduce our second volume: “those doing science need to be kept up to date on new approaches, and those developing new methods need a place to publish, as well as be supported in getting their … Continue reading Volume 3 Issue 1: Now online
Welcome to part 3 of our review of the most highly cited papers published by Methods in Ecology and Evolution in 2011. In case you missed them, here are part 1 and part 2 of this series. Population monitoring and management Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology Douglas G. Barron, Jeffrey D. Brawn and Patrick J. Weatherhead The effects of geolocator drag … Continue reading 2011 top cited papers – part 3
Today we look at part 2 of our most cited papers in Methods in Ecology and Evolution in 2011. Plant monitoring and modelling Comparison of seedling emergence and seed extraction techniques for estimating the composition of soil seed banks Jodi N. Price, Boyd R. Wright, Caroline L. Gross, Wal R. D. B. Whalley Stable isotope ecology Sensitivity of stable isotope mixing models to variation in … Continue reading 2011 top cited papers – part 2
Methods in Ecology and Evolution will be receiving its first Impact Factor in summer 2012 and we are very impressed with how well our articles are being cited. For those of you who have been following Methods from the start, you will notice some papers that we have already mentioned last year in our top cited blog posts. These are still going strong! Over the … Continue reading 2011 top cited papers – part 1
Each year our editors select the best paper published in Methods by a young researcher. We are delighted to announce that this year’s winner of the Robert May Prize is Tyler Kuhn for his paper co-authored with Arne Ø. Mooers and Gavin H. Thomas A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies published in vol. 2.5 of the journal. Tyler and co-authors present a simple approach … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2011
We have been very busy this week and we have a whole range of recently accepted articles: Bats as bioindicators – The need of a standardized method for acoustic bat activity surveys Peter Stahlschmidt and Carsten Brühl Developing a deeper understanding of animal movements and spatial dynamics through novel application of network analyses David Jacoby, Edward Brooks, Darren Croft and David Sims BaSTA: an R … Continue reading Recently accepted articles
It’s been two years since the British Ecological Society and Wiley-Blackwell launched Methods in Ecology and Evolution, and the journal has got off to a fantastic start. Tremendous interest in the Society’s youngest publication, and an abundance of high-quality submissions, have led to its switch from quarterly to bi-monthly publication. Authors have proven quick to embrace the use of online technologies to improve the uptake … Continue reading Accessing Methods in 2012
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
Methods Blog 