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
Methods has just started a 6 month trial with Altmetric. Altmetric is a powerful tool that tracks when an article has been mentioned online on websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, blog sites, news sites, Mendeley, CiteULike, and many more. When calculating an article’s score, Altmetric takes into account factors such as the number of people who have mentioned it online, the type of people … Continue reading Altmetric trial – Quantifying our online presence
Issue 4.5 is online today. This issue includes articles on species distribution models, connectivity, ecometabolomics, demography, image analysis and metabolites. There is also a freely available application paper entitled “RobOff: software for analysis of alternative land-use options and conservation actions“. About the cover: This image shows a female chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. During floods, animals often have to cross inundated … Continue reading Issue 4.5
Every year the British Ecological Society awards a prize for the best paper in each of its 5 journals, by an author at the start of their research career. This freely available Virtual Issue entitled “Young Investigator Prize Winners 2012” brings together the winning papers from each journal, in addition to 2 highly commended papers from each journal, all of which were published in an … Continue reading Virtual Issue – BES Young Investigator Prize Winners 2012
From 1 April 2013, Research Councils UK implemented its new open access policies. All 5 of the BES Journals are compliant with these changes via the full gold open access route. You can read about this in more detail on the BES Journals publication page. Visit the other BES Journals: – Functional Ecology – Journal of Ecology – Journal of Animal Ecology – Journal of … Continue reading RCUK’s new open access policy
Issue 4.4 is now online! This month we have included articles model fitting, mantel tests, measuring decay, measuring diversity, growth curves and mortality rates. The issue includes the free application article “geomorph: an r package for the collection and analysis of geometric morphometric shape data“, and an open access paper entitled “Fitting complex ecological point process models with integrated nested Laplace approximation“. About the cover: … Continue reading Issue 4.4
Issue 4.3 is now available to read online, spanning parasitology, diversity and distributions, behavioral ecology, heredity and theoretical population biology. It also includes the freely available application article “Sample Planning Optimization Tool for conservation and population Genetics (SPOTG): a software for choosing the appropriate number of markers and samples”. About the cover: Long-term demographic studies that use individually identified animals offer invaluable views of ecological … Continue reading Issue 4.3
In Methods’ latest video, Travis Ingram gives a brief introduction to the new phylogenetic comparative method SURFACE. This method uses stepwise AIC to fit a series of stabilizing selection models to a phylogenetic tree and trait data, and to quantify the extent of convergent evolution toward the same selective regimes. The tutorial explains how SURFACE works, and then shows an example analysis in R. You … Continue reading New Video – SURFACE: Detecting convergence with stepwise AIC
Issue 4.2 is now available online! This month we include articles on videos and cameras, statistical methods, animal populations, amphibians, distribution modeling, biomass estimations and genetic algorithms. There are also 2 freely available application articles on IPMpack: an R package for integral projection models, and Harmonizing, annotating and sharing data in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research. About the cover: The image shows the Yorkshire Dales National Park … Continue reading Issue 4.2
Issue 4.1 is now available online. This month Methods covers modelling interactions, statistics, population dynamics, surveys and distribution models. All content in this issue is freely available – enjoy! About the cover: There is a growing number of high-quality food-web datasets that are augmented with estimates of body mass and/or numerical abundance. In “Cheddar – analysis and visualisation of ecological communities in R” the authors … Continue reading Issue 4.1
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