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

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

From January 2013, Methods will be published in 12 issues a year (rather than 6). Our page budget has not changed since last year, which means that we’ll publish roughly the same number of articles over the year in total, but our issues will be shorter and more frequent. The aim of this is to make sure that our articles are included in an issue … Continue reading 12 issues a year

Methods has introduced a new stage in its publishing process! When an article is accepted for publication, it can now be posted online within ~2 working days as an ‘Accepted Article’, prior to proofing, copyediting, typesetting and pagination. The article will be assigned its DOI (digital object identifier) at this stage, and so can be cited as normal. The article will then slot back into … Continue reading Methods new ‘Accepted Articles’

Issue 3.6 is now available online, encompassing a variety of articles on animal movement, communities, populations, surveys, and decision-making. The Editors highlights include the application article Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R byRichard G. FitzJohn, and the research article Projecting species’ range expansion dynamics: sources of systematic biases when scaling up patterns and processes by Greta Bocedi and colleagues. There are 7 freely … Continue reading Issue 3.6