Got an iPad? Get the new Methods journal app to keep you up to date with our latest content. The app can be freely downloaded from iTunes, and enables you to: – Download and read our most recent issues – Stay current with the latest articles – Be notified when a new issue is available – Save your favourite articles for quick and easy access … Continue reading New Methods app
Listen to Methods latest Podcast by David Hawke, from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, in which he discusses his recently published paper “Closing the circle: how ecologists can prepare their own quality control material to increase confidence in stable isotope data“: Continue reading New podcast: Controlling error and stable isotope analysis
In Methods’ latest video, Travis Ingram gives a brief introduction to the new phylogenetic comparative method SURFACE. This method uses stepwise AIC to fit a series of stabilizing selection models to a phylogenetic tree and trait data, and to quantify the extent of convergent evolution toward the same selective regimes. The tutorial explains how SURFACE works, and then shows an example analysis in R. You … Continue reading New Video – SURFACE: Detecting convergence with stepwise AIC
In this short video, Sarah Burthe explains the rationale for developing endoscopy as a method for non-destructively measuring endoparasites in European shag hosts. In her recently published article, Sarah concludes that endoscopy has considerable potential for investigating individual variation and temporal changes in endoparasite burdens and drug efficacy. Read the article: Endoscopy as a novel method for assessing endoparasite burdens in free-ranging European shags (Phalacrocorax … Continue reading New Video: Endoscopy rationale
Methods has recently introduced a new submission requirement on page 1 of the ScholarOne submissions website, called a “Tweetable abstract”. This box should ideally contain the article’s novelty and/or main finding in less than 120 characters (note that’s 120 characters, not words, which is a mistake a few authors have made so far!). If the article is accepted, this text will then be used to … Continue reading Tweetable abstracts
Method’s latest video, “Diversitree”, is now available to view on our YouTube channel. In this quirky demonstration, Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird disagree on how colour affects the diversification of birds. Rich FitzJohn shows them how to test their hypotheses using the comparative phylogenetic methods implemented in the R package “diversitree”, recently described in the Methods paper “Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R“. This … Continue reading Diversitree video – starring Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird
Have a look at the latest Methods video! In issue 3.5, Martin Sullivan and colleagues published an article which deals with the problems of predicting non-native species distribution. They used dispersion weighting models to overcome this and then applied the method to a real case study, the distribution of common waxbill Estrilda astrild in the Iberian Peninsula. They then developed this accompanying video, which you … Continue reading Another Methods video on YouTube – Modelling dispersal-limited species
David Douglas et al.’s article has been published early online today, entitled Moderating Argos location errors in animal tracking data. Accompanying this article is a short video that provides a useful tutorial on how to run the Douglas Argos filter – an algorithm that flags implausible locations – in Movebank, a free online infrastructure for storing, managing, sharing and analysing animal movement data. You can … Continue reading Movebank Tutorial video now live
We’ve added a new video to our YouTube channel today, entitled “Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement” by John Fieberg and Mark Ditmer. In this video, John discusses some of the challenges associated with inferring causal relationships among animal movement characteristics and indicators of an animal’s physiological condition. Specifically, John and Mark explore models that relate estimates of daily movement rates to average … Continue reading New video online – Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement
Lots of exciting content has recently gone online. Firstly, two interesting new applications (as always free): simapse, simulation maps for ecological niche modelling in Python and nadiv, an R package for estimating non-additive genetic variances in animal models. Also, two research articles. In the first, Julien Beguin and colleagues introduce an alternative procedure for fitting Bayesian hierarchical spatial models (BHSM) with quite general spatial covariance … Continue reading Recent content and new video
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