We’re due to publish five more new methods papers over the coming weeks: On thinning of chains in MCMC William Link and Mitchell Eaton MOTMOT: models of trait macroevolution on trees Gavin Thomas and Robert Freckleton TempNet: a method to display statistical parsimony networks for heterochronous DNA sequence data Stefan Prost and Christian Anderson Distance weighting avoids erroneous scale effects in species-habitat models Birgit Aue, … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

As you can see, there’s a huge variety across the articles we’ve most recently accepted for publication: Guidelines for estimating repeatability Matthew Wolak, Daphne Fairbairn and Yale Paulsen Reservations about preservations: storage methods affect δ13C signatures differently even in closely related soil fauna Eveline Krab, Richard Van Logtestijn, Hans Cornelissen and Matty Berg How safe is mist netting? evaluating the risk of injury and mortality … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

Following on from our previous updates, the latest round of manuscripts accepted by the Methods in Ecology and Evolution board include: Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function by Nicholas Gotelli, Werner Ulrich and Fernando Maestre Comparison of seed phenolic extraction and assay methods by Kristen Granger, Robert Gallagher, E. Fuerst and J. Alldredge Temporal scaling of episodic point estimates of seed predation … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

Another round of exciting papers have been accepted by the Methods in Ecology and Evolution team, including Model-aided learning for adaptive management of natural resources: an evolutionary design perspective by Jeroen Groot and Walter Rossing Accounting for non-independent detection when estimating abundance of organisms with a Bayesian approach by Julien Martin, Jeffrey Royle, Darryl Mackenzie, Holly Edwards, Marc Kery and Beth Gardner An integrated model … Continue reading Newly accepted articles