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Journal updates, Virtual Issues

Virtual Issues on Forests and Global Change

In celebration of the UN’s International Year of Forests, and the British Ecological Society’s Symposium on Forests and Global Change, the Journal of Applied Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution have worked together to bring you two complementary virtual issues in these areas: one dealing with environmental management, and the other the most relevent new methodological developments in forest and global change research. Sample … Continue reading Virtual Issues on Forests and Global Change

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Journal updates

Top papers for February

We’ve just been given the latest stats on our top downloaded articles for February, which make for some interesting reading. As you will (hopefully!) already know, Methods in Ecology and Evolution switched from being free for all to opt-in only at the start of this year, and we’ve seen some dramatic changes in download patterns since the switchover. Our Application papers have been heavily downloaded … Continue reading Top papers for February

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Newly accepted articles

Another busy month for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial team, with a host of new papers due to appear on Early View over the coming weeks, including: Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests by Shannon Pelini, Francis Bowles, Aaron Ellison, Nicholas Gotelli, Nathan Sanders and Robert Dunn A simple polytomy resolver for dated … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

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Volume 2 Issue 1: Now online

We launched Methods in Ecology in Evolution because we thought that there was a huge demand for methods papers: those doing science need to be kept up to date on new approaches, and those developing new methods need a place to publish, as well as be supported in getting their methods used. Our first volume has exceeded all expectations and we are really pleased to … Continue reading Volume 2 Issue 1: Now online

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Newly accepted articles

It’s been a busy month for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution team, with six fantastic new papers accepted for publication in the journal: A semi-Markov model to assess reliably survival patterns from birth to death in free-ranging populations by Remi Choquet, Anne Viallefont, Lauriane Rouan, Kamel Gaanoun and Jean-Michel Gaillard Impact of sampling with replacement in occupancy studies with spatial replication by Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

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Having trouble viewing papers?

Methods in Ecology and Evolution is still available to read, for free, online – but now only on an opt-in basis. So if you’re having difficulty accessing any of our papers, please don’t despair: by emailing your institutional librarian a link to this form, and asking them to request free access to MEE, they’ll be able to sign your library up for free, institution-wide access … Continue reading Having trouble viewing papers?

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Journal updates, Online extras

A year of podcasts and videos

We have been uploading videos and podcasts for a year now – these have proved really popular, both with authors and readers of the journal. I thought I would just take this opportunity to highlight some of the online content that is supporting articles from the first 3 issues: Our podcasts include:- An introduction to meta analysis Modelling range shifts The Primate Life-History Database Phenological … Continue reading A year of podcasts and videos

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution – news

I hope that you have had an enjoyable and productive summer – this is just to update on a few bits of news from Methods in Ecology and Evolution. First, Issue 3 has appeared – there are articles on topics including: Evolutionary Ecology Stable Isotopes Population modelling & monitoring Parasitology Conservation & community ecology Second, the first year of the journal has been enormously succesful … Continue reading Methods in Ecology and Evolution – news

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Issue 2 is now online

Issue 2 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is now online, the table of contents is here.  In this issue there are 14 new papers on: Statistical methods Monitoring & modelling plant populations Telemetry Entomology Modelling wildlife disease Building databases of life-history traits GIS methods One innovation is that we now have a correspondence site: http://www.respond2articles.com/mee/ From here you can send in correspondence about papers, … Continue reading Issue 2 is now online

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Journal updates, Meetings

Launch Symposium – going ahead!

A quick update – the Methods in Ecology and Evolution launch symposium is going ahead, despite the travel chaos resulting from the effects of the ash cloud emanating from the Icelandic volcano. There are some changes to the line-up as it is very likely that overseas speakers won’t be able to come along. The revised list of speakers is: Mark Pagel Owen Petchey Russ Lande … Continue reading Launch Symposium – going ahead!

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