Category: Robert May Prize

Robert May Prize

A new graphical interface and toolkit for phylogenetic analyses

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Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper published in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Ten Early Career Researchers made the shortlist for this year’s prize, including Daniel Edler who is a PhD student at Umeå University in Sweden. In this interview, Daniel shares insights on his paper ‘raxmlGUI2.0: a graphical interface and toolkit for phylogenetic analyses using RAxML’.

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Robert May Prize

Robert May Prize 2021 – The Shortlist

Each year, Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best article by an early career researcher. Named for the late Lord May, the award recognises an outstanding ecologist or evolutionary biologist within five years of finishing their PhD. Today we announce the shortlisted papers for the 2021 award, based on articles published in Volume 12 – in the coming weeks we will hear from … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2021 – The Shortlist

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Conservation and management, Lab Methods, Robert May Prize

Ultrasound for trees? Using focused ultrasound technology as a new method of DNA extraction

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Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Hal Homes has been shortlisted for their article ‘Focused ultrasound extraction (FUSE) for the rapid extraction of DNA from tissue matrices’. In this blog, Hal discusses how their paper came to be and the future applications of FUSE technology.

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Robert May Prize

The quest for a sharp definition of function in biological networks

Robert May Prize Shortlisted Article

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Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Alberto Pascual has been shortlisted for his article ‘functionInk: An efficient method to detect functional groups in multidimensional networks reveals the hidden structure of ecological communities’. In this post, Alberto discusses the application of the functionInk (functional linkage) package for distinguishing modules and guilds from large multidimensional networks.

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Methods papers, Robert May Prize, Statistical methods

A new evolutionary simulation R package sheds light on the metaphor of genomic islands of divergence

Robert May Prize Shortlisted Article

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Nesting eggs of silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis). Heron Island, Australia. Picture: Erik Sandvik.

Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Claudio S. Quilodrán has been shortlisted for his article ‘The multiple population genetic and demographic routes to islands of genomic divergence’. In this blog, Claudio and co-author Ashley T. Sendell-Price discuss how their paper came to be and how their individual‐based simulation can be used to explore the dynamics of diverging genomes.

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Methods papers, Robert May Prize

The need to quantify complex shapes

Robert May Prize Shortlisted Article

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Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Arthur Porto has been shortlisted for his article ‘ML‐morph: A fast, accurate and general approach for automated detection and landmarking of biological structures in images’. In this blog, Arthur discusses how his paper came to be and describes development of the ML-morph pipeline.

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Methods papers, Robert May Prize

The next step for tagging insects: we can’t keep ignoring the impact

Robert May Prize Shortlisted Article

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Digger wasp (Bembix rostrata). Credit: Femke Batsleer.

Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Femke Batsleer has been shortlisted for her article ‘The neglected impact of tracking devices on arthropods‘. In this blog, Femke discusses how her paper came to be and the outcomes of the review.

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Methods papers, Robert May Prize, Statistical methods

Species association networks: a bridge between sciences

Robert May Prize Shortlisted Article

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Powdery mildew on oak tree leaves is caused by the fungi Erysiphe alphitoides, which association network helps understanding the behaviour. Credit: Raphaëlle Momal.

Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Raphaëlle Momal has been shortlisted for her article ‘Tree‐based inference of species interaction networks from abundance data’. In this blog, Raphaëlle discusses how her paper came to be and the applications of the R package developed in her study.

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Robert May Prize

Robert May Prize 2020 – The Shortlist

Each year, Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best article by an early career researcher. Named for the late Lord May, the award recognises an outstanding ecologist or evolutionary biologist within five years of finishing their PhD.

Today we announce the shortlisted papers for the 2020 award, based on articles published in Volume 11 – in the coming weeks we will hear from the shortlisted authors with the stories behind their articles. A big congratulations to all the authors for their impressive work!

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Ecology, Field Methods, Methods papers, Robert May Prize

Navigating the data-rich world of aquatic acoustic telemetry

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Early Career Researcher Kim Whoriskey takes us behind the Methods paper ‘Current and emerging statistical techniques for aquatic telemetry data: A guide to analysing spatially discrete animal detections’ which led to her being shortlisted for our Robert May Prize in 2019.

Understanding how aquatic animals move is becoming increasingly important for protecting them. Knowing where they migrate, how long they stay, and what they do when they travel through changing marine environments provides us with key information on movement corridors, habitat hotspots, and changing population distributions. This information can then be used to help manage and conserve many different aquatic species, from developing guidelines for recreational fishing practices to defining marine spatial planning measures.

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