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
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
Issue 2.3 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is officially out today, and we couldn’t be more excited about the breadth of new methodological advancements contained within! Application papers head the bill, with PASSaGE: Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis. Version 2 (Rosenberg & Anderson) and FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity (Casanoves et al.) – both available for … Continue reading Issue 2.3 out today
Issue 2.3 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution will be officially published online later this week, but in the meantime we’ve got a great new podcast accompanying one of the papers. Greg McInerny, of Microsoft Research, discusses the content of his recently co-authored paper addressing the issue of adequately accounting for inter-cell environmental variation when constructing species distribution models. The paper, Fine-scale environmental variation in … Continue reading Some things are not the average
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
Methods in Ecology and Evolution stopped being available to everyone at the start of this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still access it for free! For starters, you can encourage your institutional librarian to sign up for free access to volumes 1 and 2, in perpetuity, by directing them to this opt-in form. You can also get free access to Methods as a … Continue reading Accessing Methods in Ecology and Evolution
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
Just a quick post to highlight that Methods in Ecology and Evolution is starting to be indexed on the Web of Knowledge, with 3 of our issues included for the first time this week in the online database. This is great news: it will make our papers visible to a wide audience and eventually we will get an impact factor. We are already getting lots … Continue reading MEE now to be found on ISI Web of Knowledge
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
March may be a distant memory to some, but at the Methods in Ecology and Evolution office it’s very much on our minds as we’ve just received the March update to our top papers. Freya Harrison’s review article on getting started with meta-analysis remains our most downloaded paper (and you can listen to a podcast on getting started with meta-analysis if you’re pushed for time!), … Continue reading Top papers for March
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