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
Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE) and the 4 other BES journals recently announced a partnership with Wiley‘s open access journal, Ecology and Evolution. We now offer the authors of good quality research that we are unable to publish, the option to transfer their article to Ecology and Evolution. If the authors of a rejected article are offered this option, and if they choose to … Continue reading New rapid manuscript transferral system to Ecology and Evolution
Method’s latest video, “Diversitree”, is now available to view on our YouTube channel. In this quirky demonstration, Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird disagree on how colour affects the diversification of birds. Rich FitzJohn shows them how to test their hypotheses using the comparative phylogenetic methods implemented in the R package “diversitree”, recently described in the Methods paper “Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R“. This … Continue reading Diversitree video – starring Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird
We’ve added a new video to our YouTube channel today, entitled “Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement” by John Fieberg and Mark Ditmer. In this video, John discusses some of the challenges associated with inferring causal relationships among animal movement characteristics and indicators of an animal’s physiological condition. Specifically, John and Mark explore models that relate estimates of daily movement rates to average … Continue reading New video online – Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement
Method’s newest issue has just been published online – Issue 3.5 covers a broad range of areas, including abundance estimation, pathology, plant physiology, statistical methods, and much more. The Editor’s highlights include a research article on the advances in multiplex PCR by Daniela Sint and colleagues, and a research article on structured elicitation of expert judgments for threatened species assessment by Marissa F. McBride and … Continue reading Issue 3.5 is now online
Have a look at our newly updated YouTube channel – we’ve added 2 new videos today, an introduction to FlexParamCurve and a subsequent tutorial. In the introductory video, Steve Oswald (Penn State) and Andre Chiaradia (Phillip Island) discuss how ‘FlexParamCurve’ makes nonlinear curve fitting accessible for non-monotonic parametric curves, through automated curve selection and parametrisation in a mixed effects model framework. They visit Phillip Island’s … Continue reading New videos – FlexParamCurve
(this is the first in a possibly irregular series of posts about papers that catch my eye. I don’t intend to only cover MEE papers, but I had to start somewhere)
A perennial worry for anyone building models for the real world is whether they actually represent the real world. If the whole process of finding and fitting a model has been done well, the model will represent the data. But the data is only part of the real world. How can we be sure our model will extrapolated beyond the data?
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Methods will be attending the next ITN Speciation conference 2012 in Jyväskylä, Finland and to mark the occasion, the editorial team has put together a list of some our most relevant work in speciation and evolution. Applications – concise papers describing new software, equipment, or other practical tools: PASSaGE: Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis. Version 2 by Micheal Rosenberg and Corey Anderson RBrownie: … Continue reading Top 10 speciation and evolution papers
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