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How to advertise your Methods paper (and can you suggest better ways?)

Our latest wheeze at Methods is to suggest some ways of advertising your latest Methods paper. So, we now have a new section in our author guidelines giving some links to places you might want to go to to tell the world about your amazing new method to efficiently calculate the value of ecosystem services provided by the running of macroecology meetings. But we’re sure … Continue reading How to advertise your Methods paper (and can you suggest better ways?)

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Methods in the press

Two articles have been recently highlighted in the press. Iain Stott, Dave Hodgson and Stuart Townley, University of Exeter, have developed Popdemo, a new software tool for helping prioritise efforts in species conservation. As well as determining which species need our help, it will also be useful in pest control and sustainable harvesting. The University press release was picked up by a variety of websites, … Continue reading Methods in the press

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Journal updates

Issue 3.3

About the issue Issue 3.3 contains an amazing number of extra features: three videos, one podcast and one Powerpoint presentation. The topics in the issue range from DNA barcoding, surveys, measuring diversity, population and movement modelling and includes five free applications. About the cover Recently developed light-weighed tracking devices for positioning through light intensity pattern (‘geolocation’) have begun to greatly improve our knowledge of animal … Continue reading Issue 3.3

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Journal updates, Online extras

Recent content and new video

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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Updates to Methods applications: we need your advice

I hope that you all know that MEE publishes applications paper, which we make freely available for everyone to read, and the software is (of course) downloadable too. A couple of times over the last few weeks we have been asked to update some of the software code in the Applications. This presents us with a problem: whilst the occasional update is OK, if we … Continue reading Updates to Methods applications: we need your advice

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Journal updates

MEE article featured in Faculty of 1000

Great recognition for one of our recent articles: Distance-based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects by David Warton, Stephen Wright and Yi Wang, on multivariate analysis in ecology. Warton and colleagues’ article has recently been highlighted on Faculty of 1000, a platform providing post-publication peer-review and selecting only the most important articles in biology and medicine. Just 2% of published articles are highlighted on Faculty … Continue reading MEE article featured in Faculty of 1000

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New associate editors

Busy month at Methods, we are very pleased to announce that five new associated editors have just joined our journal: Olivier Gimenez, CNRS, France, Luca Giuggoli, University of Bristol, UK, Darren Kriticos, CSIRO, Australia, Jessica Metcalf, University of Oxford, UK,  and Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Olivier is a population biologist with a background in biostatistics studying animal demography in wild populations. Luca … Continue reading New associate editors

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Issue 3.2

About the issue With topics ranging from phylogenetic analysis to statistics and distribution modelling, conservation, citizen science, surveys, genetic and demographic models to avian biology, our issue 3.2 should be of interest to most ecologists and evolutionary biologists. The issue also contains 5 free applications. About the cover This very high-resolution image of a beech-dominated forest in central Germany was taken by an unmanned aerial … Continue reading Issue 3.2

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Journal updates, Online extras, Statistical methods

BaSTA

Our latest video is a must-see for all researchers interested in aging: Fernando Colchero, Owen Jones and Maren Rebke, Max Plank Institute for Demographic Research, present BaSTA – Bayesian Survival Trajectory Analysis. The authors have put together this beautiful video exploring research on ageing and and how to deal with incomplete data. Starring Tim Coulson, Imperial College, Fernando Colchero, Owen Jones, Maren Rebke and James Vaupel, … Continue reading BaSTA

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New podcast and video

In case you haven’t seen them, this month we have published a new podcast and video so far. In our latest video, David Warton, The University of New South Wales, Australia, presents his ‘mvabund’ package on multivariate analysis. What makes this software different from other ones on multivariate analysis, is that it’s all about models that you can fit to your data. David explains how … Continue reading New podcast and video

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