This week marks the 5th annual International Open Access Week, and to celebrate this exciting milestone the journals of the British Ecological Society – including Methods! – have put together a special virtual issue of open access papers in ecology. The papers are drawn from all five journals, and cover a broad range of topics: from invasives, stress and insect ecology to wider issues in community … Continue reading International Open Access Week 2011
You’ve been able to download our podcasts through the iTunes store for a while now, but did you know that the Methods in Ecology and Evolution videos are also available? To help maximise the dissemination of new techniques within the research community, fourteen of our author videos are already available right now, for free, through the iTunes store – and we’ll be adding the last few videos over the coming … Continue reading Methods videos and iTunes
The cover image for Issue 2.5 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution depicts a group of migratory wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus, photographed in northern Tanzania. The image was one of two supplied by Thomas Morrison, Dartmouth College, NH, which together excellently convey “the challenging nature of individual wildebeest identification”. They accompany Estimating survival in photographic capture–recapture studies: overcoming misidentification error by Thomas A. Morrison, Jun Yoshizaki, James D. Nichols and … Continue reading Explaining the cover image
Issue 2.5 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is published today, and it’s a special 150 page bumper edition! The tempo of evolution heads the bill for this issue, with a strong phylogenetic duo in Measuring the temporal structure in serially sampled phylogenies by Rebecca R. Gray, Oliver G. Pybus and Marco Salemi, and A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies by Tyler S. Kuhn, Arne Ø. Mooers and Gavin H. Thomas. The … Continue reading Issue 2.5 out today
Articles we’ve recently accepted for publication include: Heterogeneous patterns of availability for detection during visual surveys: spatiotemporal variation in sea turtle dive-surfacing behaviour on a feeding ground Jordan Thomson, Andrew Cooper, Derek Burkholder, Michael Heithaus and Lawrence Dill Breaking the sticks: a hierarchical change-point model for estimating ontogenetic shifts with stable isotope data Matthieu Authier, Céline Martin, Aurore Ponchon, Stéphanie Steelandt, Ilham Bentaleb and Christophe Guinet State-space framework for estimating measurement error from double-tagging telemetry experiments Arliss Winship, Salvador Jorgensen, Scott Shaffer, Ian Jonsen, Patrick Robinson, Daniel Costa and Barbara Block Quantifying individual variation in reaction norms: … Continue reading Recently accepted articles
The publication of smatr 3 – an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines, by David Warton, Remko Duursma, Daniel Falster and Sara Taskinen, marks our twelfth published application paper – and, like the first eleven, it’s available for free. Methods in Ecology and Evolution’s applications are intended to provide a citable description of new methods and techniques in ecology and evolution, with the intention of promoting and maximising the uptake of … Continue reading Our twelfth application!
Jessica Stanton discusses the problem of accounting for both static and dynamic variables in designing species distribution models under climate change in our newest author video. Related Read Combining static and dynamic variables in species distribution models under climate change by Jessica C. Stanton, Richard G. Pearson, Ned Horning, Peter Ersts and H. Reşit Akçakaya See other Methods in Ecology and Evolution author videos Continue reading Modelling static and dynamic variables
Welcome back for the final part of our look at the most highly cited papers published by Methods in Ecology and Evolution so far, as recorded by ISI. (Don’t forget to look back at the first two parts, if you missed them previously!) Population monitoring Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology Douglas G. Barron, Jeffrey D. Brawn and Patrick J. Weatherhead Making overall … Continue reading Top cited papers – part 3
Here’s part 2 of our look at Methods in Ecology and Evolution’s most highly cited papers to date! Plant monitoring and modelling Comparison of seedling emergence and seed extraction techniques for estimating the composition of soil seed banks Jodi N. Price, Boyd R. Wright, Caroline L. Gross, Wal R. D. B. Whalley Experimentally testing the role of foundation species in forests: the Harvard Forest Hemlock Removal … Continue reading Top cited papers – part 2
ISI has only been indexing Methods in Ecology and Evolution for a short time, but some of our papers are already accumulating an impressive number of citations. Over the next few days we’ll be highlighting our most cited papers across a broad range of fields – just in case they’ve slipped you by. Statistical methods in ecology & evolution A protocol for data exploration to avoid common … Continue reading Top cited papers – part 1
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