A round-up of methods papers published in the last month. If there are any papers that you think should be featured, email me or leave a comment and I will add them. Liam Revell has a paper in Evolution on size correction and principal components analysis of phylogenetic comparative data. Olivier Gimenez and colleagues also have a paper in the same issue on generating fitness … Continue reading Methods Digest – December 2009
Phylogenetic comparative methods are always an area of hot discussion and lots of methodological development. So I thought it would be useful to highlight some recent papers that have developed new methods in the past year. Please email me or leave a comment if there is anything I have omitted or if something new comes out. Thomas Hansen and colleagues have introduced a new method … Continue reading Phylogenetic comparative methods
The first paper accepted in Methods in Ecology & Evolution is now available online! This paper is by Alain Zuur, Elena Ieno and Chris Elphick – Alain is well known in the ecological and R community for his books Analysing Ecological Data, Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R and A Beginner’s Guide to R and for the courses he runs on statistics. … Continue reading First paper now online!
Here is a round-up of interesting methods and methods-related papers published in the past few weeks. Please do pass on any interesting-looking papers / links and I will include them. In Heredity Blanya et al. review the use of Drosophila subobscura as a tool in research on the microevolutionary consequences of climate change. There are several methods-relevant papers in the latest issue of Evolution: Céline … Continue reading Methods Digest – November 2009
Here is a round-up of some interesting methods papers published in the past few weeks. If you see any more papers that you would like to see flagged up, leave a comment below or email me. In PLoS Biology Wayne Getz presents a thoughtful review of the models and modelling approaches that might be useful in predicting the consequences of multiple threats to ecosystems from … Continue reading Methods Digest, October 2009
One of the big motivating factors in setting up Methods in Ecology and Evolution was the recognition that there are lots of ways to present research (without losing sight of the importance of peer review, rigour, and quality assurance). However in terms of uptake and usage, the problem with the conventional paper is that it is not necessarily tailored to conveying research in a quick … Continue reading More than the printed page
There were a number of ideas that led us to launch a journal devoted to methods. These include: Methods papers need support for readers to implement new approaches. This can include code, tutorials and a platform to communicate with authors and other users. Methods are often generic – they can be used across ecology and evolution, and there is justification There was no existsing journal … Continue reading BES Meeting 2009 – What’s your method?
Just to say that Wiley-Blackwell will be at the ESEB meeting in Turin – they will be able to provide information on submission to the journal and how the journal is being developed, so do drop by their stand if you have any questions. If you have any other questions, especially ideas for papers or reviews, do not hesitate to contact me at methods@me.com. Enjoy … Continue reading ESEB 2009 – Turin
For like someone like myself, interested and enthused by ecological models, this INTECOL meeting has been incredibly pleasing. The number of talks about models, and particularly the application of models to real-world applied problems, has been genuinely impressive. Here I just want to highlight a few of the key themes from the modelling sessions at INTECOL. Adaptive management (basically and iterative approach using the lessons … Continue reading INTECOL09 – a ‘model’ meeting
As I have just been involved with setting up a new journal with Wiley-Blackwell and the BES, I was asked to contribute to a planning session for Austral Ecology considering the question, “what will journals look like in 10 years?” Here are some of my thoughts that I contributed. First, we should be clear that if we look back 10 years, journals have changed a … Continue reading INTECOL 2009 – What will journals look like in 10 years?
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