Welcome to our newest Associate Editors!: Kate Jones from University College London and the Zoological Society of London, and Louise Johnson from the University of Reading. Click on their photos to read about their research interests: Continue reading New Associate Editors
In this video Todd Jones gives a summary of his recent study, which aims to increase our understanding of the impact that carrying electronic tags can have on aquatic animals. Does the increased drag have power implications? Do the tags themselves affect the behavior of the animals? To answer these questions Todd and his colleagues made cast models of sea turtles and put them in … Continue reading Tagging aquatic animals can disrupt natural behavior
Listen to these short podcasts in which Methods‘ Senior Editor, Bob O’Hara, gives a brief overview of the journal, and the Methods blog. An overview of Methods in Ecology and Evolution: An overview of the Methods blog: Recorded at INTECOL 2013 by Wiley’s Marketing Manager, Fraser Hutchinson. Continue reading An overview of MEE and the Methods blog
At INTECOL 2013, Methods’ Associate Editor, Barb Anderson, asked a number of delegates: “What is the oldest method that you still use today?” This podcast includes the answers given by the list of people below.
Barb also produced podcasts about the newest methods currently being used, potentially useful methods that have not yet been invented, and the most transformational methods in various fields of research.
This week is international Open Access Week, which aims to raise the awareness of open access publishing within the scientific and academic community, and provides an opportunity to hear about its potential benefits and the latest policies and opinions. Institutions and universities from all over the world are involved and there’s an extensive calendar of events that you can have a look at to see … Continue reading Open Access week 2013
We’d like to welcome the following new Associate Editors to the team: Diana Fisher from the University of Queensland, Australia, Holger Schielzeth from Bielefeld University, Germany, and Steve Kembell from the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. Click on their photos below to read about their research interests: Continue reading New Associate Editors
In this video, David Warton interviews Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie of the University of Wollongong. Noel is a big name in spatial statistics, an advocate of hierarchical modeling in ecology, and the author of a key reference text in spatial statistics, and more recently “Statistics for Spatio-temporal data” with Chris Wikle; David and Noel discuss all of these topics in this interview. Continue reading An interview with Noel Cressie
Issue 4.10 is now online! This month’s issue includes articles on animal movement, stable isotopes, biodiversity, remote sensing and tagging, along with 2 freely available applications: pavo and ITSx. About the cover: The conspicuous plumage of male crimson-hooded manakins (Pipra aureola) exemplifies some of the complex visual signals used by animals for mating and competition. Quantitative measurement of animal color through spectrophotometry has become increasingly … Continue reading Issue 4.10
Here’s a really useful resource from the British Ecological Society, that provides an introduction to peer review in ecology and evolution, information on best practice, ethics and FAQs: Continue reading A guide to peer review
We have a few more new Associate Editors to welcome to the Methods team, to help with our increasing number of submissions: Doug Yu from the University of East Anglia, and the Kunming Institute of Zoology in China; Ryan Chisholm from the National University of Singapore; and Patricia Backwell from the Australian National University. Continue reading New Associate Editors
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