Issue 4.7 is now online! This issue includes articles on isotopes, abundance, occupancy, survival and acoustics. We also have 3 freely available applications: EasyABC: performing efficient approximate Bayesian computation sampling schemes using R by Franck Jabot et al., Congruification: support for time scaling large phylogenetic trees by Johnathan Eastman et al. and phyloGenerator: an automated phylogeny generation tool for ecologists by William Pearse and Andy Purvis. … Continue reading Issue 4.7

Issue 4.6 is now available online! This month Methods covers statistics, movement, community ecology, ecophysiology and demography. There are also 2 freely available applications articles: SimAdapt: an individual-based genetic model for simulating landscape management impacts on populations, by François Rebaudo et al., and nupoint: An R package for density estimation from point transects in the presence of nonuniform animal density, by Martin Cox et al. … Continue reading Issue 4.6

Methods has just started a 6 month trial with Altmetric. Altmetric is a powerful tool that tracks when an article has been mentioned online on websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, blog sites, news sites, Mendeley, CiteULike, and many more. When calculating an article’s score, Altmetric takes into account factors such as the number of people who have mentioned it online, the type of people … Continue reading Altmetric trial – Quantifying our online presence

Issue 4.5 is online today. This issue includes articles on species distribution models, connectivity, ecometabolomics, demography, image analysis and metabolites. There is also a freely available application paper entitled “RobOff: software for analysis of alternative land-use options and conservation actions“. About the cover: This image shows a female chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. During floods, animals often have to cross inundated … Continue reading Issue 4.5