Author: Harriet Rhodes

Journal updates, Online extras

Evolution MegaLab

Modern technology offers some really exciting new opportunities for the use of citizen science, and in our newest video Jonathan Silvertown, Open University, gives a demonstration of Evolution MegaLab, a huge collaboration exploring the use of citizen science methods to undertake high-quality surveys of polymorphism in a wild species. Jonathan demonstrates the site’s display of historical polymorphism data, some features designed to enable researchers to assess the … Continue reading Evolution MegaLab

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Journal updates, Virtual Issues

International Open Access Week 2011

This week marks the 5th annual International Open Access Week, and to celebrate this exciting  milestone the journals of the British Ecological Society – including Methods! – have put together a special virtual issue of open access papers in ecology. The papers are drawn from all five journals, and cover a broad range of topics: from invasives, stress and insect ecology to wider issues  in community … Continue reading International Open Access Week 2011

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Journal updates, Online extras

Methods videos and iTunes

You’ve been able to download our podcasts through the iTunes store for a while now, but did you know that the Methods in Ecology and Evolution videos are also available? To help maximise the dissemination of new techniques within the research community, fourteen  of our author videos are already available right now, for free, through the iTunes store – and we’ll be adding the last few videos over the coming … Continue reading Methods videos and iTunes

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Journal updates

Explaining the cover image

The cover image for Issue 2.5 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution depicts a group of migratory wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus, photographed in northern Tanzania. The image was one of two supplied by Thomas Morrison, Dartmouth College, NH, which together excellently convey “the challenging nature of individual wildebeest identification”. They accompany Estimating survival in photographic capture–recapture studies: overcoming misidentification error by Thomas A. Morrison, Jun Yoshizaki, James D. Nichols and … Continue reading Explaining the cover image

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Journal updates

Issue 2.5 out today

Issue 2.5 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is published today, and it’s a special 150 page bumper edition! The tempo of evolution  heads the bill for this issue, with a strong phylogenetic duo in Measuring the temporal structure in serially sampled phylogenies by Rebecca R. Gray, Oliver G. Pybus and Marco Salemi, and A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies by Tyler S. Kuhn, Arne Ø. Mooers and Gavin H. Thomas. The … Continue reading Issue 2.5 out today

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Journal updates

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

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Our twelfth application!

The publication of smatr 3 – an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines, by David Warton, Remko Duursma, Daniel Falster and Sara Taskinen, marks our twelfth published application paper – and, like the first eleven, it’s available for free. Methods in Ecology and Evolution’s applications are intended to provide a citable description of new methods and techniques in ecology and evolution, with the intention of promoting and maximising the uptake of … Continue reading Our twelfth application!

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Modelling static and dynamic variables

Jessica Stanton discusses the problem of accounting for both static and dynamic variables in designing species distribution models under climate change in our newest author video. Related Read Combining static and dynamic variables in species distribution models under climate change by Jessica C. Stanton, Richard G. Pearson, Ned Horning, Peter Ersts and H. Reşit Akçakaya See other Methods in Ecology and Evolution author videos Continue reading Modelling static and dynamic variables

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Top papers for August

How safe is mist netting? Evaluating the risk of injury and mortality to birds remains our most highly accessed article for the second month in a row – just managing to stay ahead of RNCEP: global weather and climate data at your fingertips, which has been receiving fantastic interest since we published it in July of this year. This open source package, written in R, is intended to help … Continue reading Top papers for August

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Meetings

Publishing science in the online age

While our Editor-in-Chief will be chairing a session on methods in ecology and evolution at the BES Annual Meeting 2011, our Journal Coordinator is running a lunchtime workshop on publishing science in the online age. Journalist and blogger Ed Yong, Open Science advocate Ross Mounce, and BES journal editors Marc Cadotte and David Gibson, will all be talking about the various ways in which online communication has the potential to revolutionise … Continue reading Publishing science in the online age

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