Category: Methods papers

Methods papers, Practical Tools

Bringing UV into the Light: A New Tool for Monitoring Ultraviolet Light Exposure Over Time

Post provided by Matthew Lattanzio. Hello there! My name is Matthew Lattanzio, and I am an Associate Professor at Christopher Newport University where I study how reptiles and amphibians interact with and respond to environmental variability. I grew up as a nature enthusiast, and so it is exciting to still carry that curiosity through to my career, constantly challenging myself and my students to think … Continue reading Bringing UV into the Light: A New Tool for Monitoring Ultraviolet Light Exposure Over Time

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Improving Reporting Standards For Simulation Studies

Post provided by Coralie Williams Have you ever wondered if your simulation study could be replicated? The replication crisis has been a hot topic in empirical research for years, but it’s only recently that we’ve started discussing it in statistical method research (Boulesteix et al., 2020; Luijken et al., 2024). Methodological research often relies on simulations – computer experiments that assess how well statistical methods … Continue reading Improving Reporting Standards For Simulation Studies

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Introducing ‘Life on the edge’, a new toolbox for predicting population responses to global change

Post provided by Chris Barratt Chris is a Researcher in the Animal Breeding and Genomics group (Centre for Genetic Resources Netherlands) at Wageningen University and Research, and a guest researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. Caught somewhere between being a quantitative geneticist, a spatial modeller and a conservationist, he is committed to finding new and interesting ways to integrate genomic data and predictive modelling … Continue reading Introducing ‘Life on the edge’, a new toolbox for predicting population responses to global change

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Tackling uncertainty in landscape connectivity

Post provided by Maëlis Kervellec  An Increased Interest Towards Landscape Connectivity Human activities not only contribute to climate change by producing greenhouse gases, but also directly degrade habitats. According to the 2019 IPBES report , about 75% of the Earth’s land surfaces have been heavily modified. Moreover, in Europe, 50% of the land is within 1.5 kilometres of a road (Torres, Jaeger, and Alonso, 2016 ). This … Continue reading Tackling uncertainty in landscape connectivity

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Introducing sabinaNSDM: A New R Package for Improved Species Distribution Modeling based on Spatially-Nested Hierarchical models

Post provided by Teresa Goicolea and Alejandra Zarzo Esta publicación también está disponible en español. Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are essential tools for scientists and conservationists to predict where species are likely to be found, where they have existed in the past, and where they might appear in the future. As we face urgent issues like climate change and biodiversity loss, producing accurate predictions is … Continue reading Introducing sabinaNSDM: A New R Package for Improved Species Distribution Modeling based on Spatially-Nested Hierarchical models

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Opening Ecology to Local, Traditional, and Indigenous Knowledge

Post provided by James T. Thorson Ecologists have a social responsibility to document, interpret, and forecast how human activities are impacting our shared world.  There’s an ongoing movement to open ecology to new voices: for example, the Biden-Harris Administration has directed US agencies to incorporate Indigenous Knowledge through ethical and mutually beneficial relationships with tribal nations.  This direction is clearly important, and requires developing new … Continue reading Opening Ecology to Local, Traditional, and Indigenous Knowledge

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Tracking marine tetrapod carcasses, passive drifters and citizen science

In this new video Maurício Tavares and coauthors showcase the findings of their latest article. They designed and tested a system for tracking carcasses of marine tetrapods on the Southern Subtropical Shelf of the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Their research contributes to findings on marine tetrapod drift patterns and can be replicated in other coastal regions of the world for tracking a wide range of marine … Continue reading Tracking marine tetrapod carcasses, passive drifters and citizen science

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Seeds ‘exposed’! A method to automatically reveal seed morphological traits from images.

Post provided by Roberta L. C. Dayrell The knowledge of seed morphology is an essential resource for practitioners and scientists across diverse disciplines such as botany, agriculture, restoration, conservation, and archaeology. Morphological attributes can inform studies on topics such as seed dispersal, predation, longevity, and germination. This knowledge also has practical applications, including seed identification and assessments of quality and ripeness. But extracting meaningful information … Continue reading Seeds ‘exposed’! A method to automatically reveal seed morphological traits from images.

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Heat waves reconstructed!

Post provided by Loke von Schmalensee For many decades, humans have tried to understand how to process continuous signals for our convenience. As a result, numerous innovative methods have been developed for recording, compressing, restoring, and transforming (and more) continuous signals. Consider, for instance, the relationship between signal processing and music: it comes into play directly through the recording of sound waves, and indirectly via … Continue reading Heat waves reconstructed!

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