The Robert May Prize is awarded annually to the best paper published in Methods by a young author at the start of their research career. We’re delighted to announce that the 2012 winner is Sarah Papworth from Imperial Collage London, for her article “Movement ecology of human resource users: using net squared displacement, biased random bridges and resource utilization functions to quantify hunter and gatherer … Continue reading 2012 Robert May Prize Winner
To accommodate Methods increasing number of submissions, we’ve recruited 2 more Associate Editors to join us in 2013: Jari Oksanen from the University of Oulu, and Tamara Münkemüller from CNRS and Joseph Fourier University. You can click on their photos to read about their research interests: Continue reading New Associate Editors
Issue 4.1 is now available online. This month Methods covers modelling interactions, statistics, population dynamics, surveys and distribution models. All content in this issue is freely available – enjoy! About the cover: There is a growing number of high-quality food-web datasets that are augmented with estimates of body mass and/or numerical abundance. In “Cheddar – analysis and visualisation of ecological communities in R” the authors … Continue reading Issue 4.1
Methods would like to welcome the following Associate Editors to our team! You can click on their pictures below to read about their areas of research: Continue reading New Associate Editors
From January 2013, Methods will be published in 12 issues a year (rather than 6). Our page budget has not changed since last year, which means that we’ll publish roughly the same number of articles over the year in total, but our issues will be shorter and more frequent. The aim of this is to make sure that our articles are included in an issue … Continue reading 12 issues a year
Methods has introduced a new stage in its publishing process! When an article is accepted for publication, it can now be posted online within ~2 working days as an ‘Accepted Article’, prior to proofing, copyediting, typesetting and pagination. The article will be assigned its DOI (digital object identifier) at this stage, and so can be cited as normal. The article will then slot back into … Continue reading Methods new ‘Accepted Articles’
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
Issue 3.6 is now available online, encompassing a variety of articles on animal movement, communities, populations, surveys, and decision-making. The Editors highlights include the application article Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R byRichard G. FitzJohn, and the research article Projecting species’ range expansion dynamics: sources of systematic biases when scaling up patterns and processes by Greta Bocedi and colleagues. There are 7 freely … Continue reading Issue 3.6
Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE) and the 4 other BES journals recently announced a partnership with Wiley‘s open access journal, Ecology and Evolution. We now offer the authors of good quality research that we are unable to publish, the option to transfer their article to Ecology and Evolution. If the authors of a rejected article are offered this option, and if they choose to … Continue reading New rapid manuscript transferral system to Ecology and Evolution
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
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