Recently accepted articles

Four more papers have been recently accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: REDDcalculator.com: a web-based decision-support tool for implementing Indonesia’s forest moratorium Lian Pin Koh, Holly Gibbs, Peter Potapov, Matthew Hansen PMx: software package for demographic and genetic analysis and management of pedigreed populations Robert Lacy, Jonathan Ballou and John Pollak Exploring causal pathways in demographic parameter variation: path analysis of mark–recapture … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Top papers for June

Open access research papers, freely available applications, and papers supported by podcasts continued to be our most popular publications for June. Open papers How safe is mist netting? Evaluating the risk of injury and mortality to birds, by Spotswood et al., and A simple method for in situ-labelling with 15N and 13C of grassland plant species by foliar brushing, by Putz et al., both received a lot of downloads, with How … Continue reading Top papers for June

Recently accepted articles

Articles recently accepted by the Methods editorial board include: A novel molecular approach for rapid assessment of soil nematode assemblages – variation, validation and potential applications Suzanne Donn, Roy Neilson, Bryan Griffiths and Tim Daniell Reconstructing historical snow depth surfaces to evaluate changes in critical demographic rates and habitat components of snow-dependent and snow-restricted species Jeffrey Manning and Edward Garton Comparative interpretation of count, presence–absence … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Studying deepwater animals with TrapCam

Two uploads in two days make this a bumper week for Methods in Ecology and Evolution‘s author videos! In Studying deepwater animals with TrapCam lead author Brett Favaro walks us through the construction of TrapCam, an inexpensive, self-contained camera system designed to deliver high-definition video footage of deepwater animals at depths inaccessible for scuba divers, which does not require ongoing support from a vessel, or … Continue reading Studying deepwater animals with TrapCam

Heating up the forest

In our latest video Shannon Pellini demonstrates experimental equipment designed to simulate the effects of warmer air temperatures on forest ecosystems – and, particuarly, on arthropod communities. You can read a full account of their experimental methods, and results from two contemporaneous trials at Harvard Forest and Duke Forest, in their recently published paper, Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities … Continue reading Heating up the forest

Estimating seed predation rates

Seed predation plays an important role in global plant demography. In this video, Adam Davis, of the University of Illinois, demonstrates how field experiments and statistical models can can enable the extrapolation of long-term seed predation rates from short-term data. A full treatment of this can be found in the paper Temporal scaling of episodic point estimates of seed predation to long-term predation rates, recently … Continue reading Estimating seed predation rates

Biodiversity estimates from DNA sequences

The complexity of new methodologies can present a challenging barrier towards their uptake. Recognising this, Jeff Powell,  author of Accounting for uncertainty in species delineation during the analysis of environmental DNA sequence data, has put together an excellent tutorial to guide people through the implementation of his objective, theory-based method for predicting species boundaries, which explicitly incorporates uncertainty in the classification system into biodiversity estimation. … Continue reading Biodiversity estimates from DNA sequences

Recently accepted articles

Four more new methodological papers will be making an appearance on Early View over the coming weeks: Bias in estimation of adult survival and asymptotic population growth rate caused by undetected capture heterogeneity by David Fletcher, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Lucile Marescot, Michael Schaub, Olivier Gimenez, Steve Dawson and Liz Slooten Tracking migratory songbirds: accuracy of light-level loggers (geolocators) in forest habitats by Adam Fudickar, Martin Wikelski … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Top papers for April

Although regular readers may find April’s most frequently accessed papers quite familiar, there are several interesting changes. The one to watch for April was Factors and mechanisms explaining spatial heterogeneity: a review of methods for insect populations, by Vinatier et al., which nearly quadrupled in popularity to become the month’s second most accessed paper. It’s currently available to download for free, so do take advantage! … Continue reading Top papers for April

Explaining the cover image

Our newest issue’s striking cover image is an example of the graphical output of PASSaGE 2, an application providing a broad array of spatial statistical analyses not commonly found in other software packages or GIS software, documented in this edition of Methods in Ecology and Evolution. In this case, the image represents a colour-graded surface map of elevation data. The citable reference for PASSaGE: Pattern … Continue reading Explaining the cover image