This week is international Open Access Week, which aims to raise the awareness of open access publishing within the scientific and academic community, and provides an opportunity to hear about its potential benefits and the latest policies and opinions. Institutions and universities from all over the world are involved and there’s an extensive calendar of events that you can have a look at to see … Continue reading Open Access week 2013
Issue 4.10 is now online! This month’s issue includes articles on animal movement, stable isotopes, biodiversity, remote sensing and tagging, along with 2 freely available applications: pavo and ITSx. About the cover: The conspicuous plumage of male crimson-hooded manakins (Pipra aureola) exemplifies some of the complex visual signals used by animals for mating and competition. Quantitative measurement of animal color through spectrophotometry has become increasingly … Continue reading Issue 4.10
Authors, here are some useful tips from our publisher, Wiley, to help you increase the visibility of your article online: Continue reading Tips to increase the visibility of your article online
Issue 4.9 is now available online – containing articles on effective measurement, conservation biology, estimating demographic parameters, abundance estimation and modelling. There are also 2 freely available application articles:marked: an R package for maximum likelihood and Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of capture–recapture data and Program SimAssem: software for simulating species assemblages and estimating species richness. About the cover: As digital technology improves, applications of … Continue reading Issue 4.9
In this video, Methods‘ Associate Editor, David Warton, interviews Trevor Hastie, Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. Trevor is a leading figure in the discipline who has been instrumental in the development and uptake of a range of modern analysis methods, including generalised additive models, the LASSO, and boosting. Trevor talks about his recent paper “Inference from presence-only data; the ongoing controversy” with Will Fithian … Continue reading An interview with Trevor Hastie
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Issue 4.8 is now online, containing a Special Feature entitled Unifying Fossils and Phylogenies for Comparative Analyses of Diversification and Trait Evolution, guest edited by Graham Slater and Luke Harmon. Below, Graham describes why they chose to put this Special Feature together:
Since the mid-Twentieth century, the study of evolution has been divided into two sub-disciplines. Microevolution refers to evolutionary change within and among populations of a single species, and is the focus of fields such as population genetics. Macroevolution refers to evolutionary change at and above the level of the species. Studies of phylogenetics, diversification, and major phenotypic transitions all fall under the banner of macroevolution.
Since it’s launch in 2010, Methods has become one of the most important venues for introducing Continue reading “Issue 4.8 Special Feature: Fossils and Phylogenies”
Listen to Methods latest Podcast by David Hawke, from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, in which he discusses his recently published paper “Closing the circle: how ecologists can prepare their own quality control material to increase confidence in stable isotope data“: Continue reading New podcast: Controlling error and stable isotope analysis
Issue 4.7 is now online! This issue includes articles on isotopes, abundance, occupancy, survival and acoustics. We also have 3 freely available applications: EasyABC: performing efficient approximate Bayesian computation sampling schemes using R by Franck Jabot et al., Congruification: support for time scaling large phylogenetic trees by Johnathan Eastman et al. and phyloGenerator: an automated phylogeny generation tool for ecologists by William Pearse and Andy Purvis. … Continue reading Issue 4.7
Issue 4.6 is now available online! This month Methods covers statistics, movement, community ecology, ecophysiology and demography. There are also 2 freely available applications articles: SimAdapt: an individual-based genetic model for simulating landscape management impacts on populations, by François Rebaudo et al., and nupoint: An R package for density estimation from point transects in the presence of nonuniform animal density, by Martin Cox et al. … Continue reading Issue 4.6
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