Category: Conservation and management

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Tagging aquatic animals can disrupt natural behavior

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

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Conservation and management, Journal updates, Online extras

Network analyses of animal movement

Determining how animals move within their environment is a fundamental knowledge that contributes to effective management and conservation. In our latest video, David Jacoby and Edd Brooks explain how their paper brings together two disparate and rapid advancing fields: biotelemetry and social networking analyses. In a paper recently published in Methods, David, Edd and colleagues Darren Croft and David Sims, demonstrate some of the descriptive and … Continue reading Network analyses of animal movement

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Conservation and management, Evolution, Journal updates, Methods papers, Online extras, Phylogenetic analysis, Statistical methods

Volume 3 Issue 1: Now online

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

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Conservation and management, Journal updates, Online extras

Measuring functional connectivity using butterflies

Long-term datasets yield a great deal of information and are increasingly used to inform conservation measures. In the first video of the new year, Gary Powney and Tom Oliver show how long-term monitoring data on the Speckled Wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria) from the UK monitoring butterfly scheme can be used to assess functional connectivity of the landscape. In a paper recently published in Methods, Gary … Continue reading Measuring functional connectivity using butterflies

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Conservation and management, Evolution, Phylogenetic analysis, Statistical methods

Methods Digest – November 2009

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

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Conservation and management, Phylogenetic analysis, Practical Tools, Statistical methods, Theoretical methods

Methods Digest, October 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

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Conservation and management, General, Theoretical methods

INTECOL09 – a ‘model’ meeting

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

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