Methods papers

Introducing sabinaNSDM: A New R Package for Improved Species Distribution Modeling based on Spatially-Nested Hierarchical models

Post provided by Teresa Goicolea and Alejandra Zarzo Esta publicación también está disponible en español. Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are essential tools for scientists and conservationists to predict where species are likely to be found, where they have existed in the past, and where they might appear in the future. As we face urgent issues like climate change and biodiversity loss, producing accurate predictions is … Continue reading Introducing sabinaNSDM: A New R Package for Improved Species Distribution Modeling based on Spatially-Nested Hierarchical models

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Peer Review

The Evolution and Diversity of Peer Review

Post provided by Lydia Morley Today, peer review is a foundation of academic publishing. It serves as a checks and balances system to ensure that researchers present work of high quality, novelty, and relevance to the greater academic community. When our work is accepted for publication, it has quite literally been judged by a jury of our peers. And like a real jury, the review … Continue reading The Evolution and Diversity of Peer Review

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LGBTQ+

Pride Month 2024: Nathaniel Wells

Happy Pride Month! Join the British Ecological Society in this annual, global celebration as we share stories from STEM researchers who belong to the LGBTQ+ community.  This post is by Nathaniel Wells.  About me My name is Nathaniel, and I use he/they pronouns. I’m from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and I’ve just finished my undergraduate degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland with Honours in Psychology. … Continue reading Pride Month 2024: Nathaniel Wells

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Editor Profiles

Commissioning Excellence: Insights from Hooman Latifi, Commissioning Editor for Methods

Hi there! I’m Hooman Latifi, an Associate Professor of Ecological Remote Sensing. With an academic background in Forest Inventory, Remote Sensing and Aerial Photogrammetry at diverse universities in Germany and Iran, I am currently affiliated with the Dept. of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing of the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, the oldest technical university in Iran. My main research line focuses on using satellite … Continue reading Commissioning Excellence: Insights from Hooman Latifi, Commissioning Editor for Methods

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Vacancies

Associate Editor (Blog) –Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Methods in Ecology and Evolution is looking for two new Editors to help run their highly successful blog. The Methods Blog is the widely-read blog for the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution, which receives over 100,000 views a year. We are looking for two engaging researchers with expertise in the fields of evolutionary biology and ecology and a passion for communicating new methods. They will work with our … Continue reading Associate Editor (Blog) –Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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Robert May Prize

Robert May Prize 2023: Winner announced for early career researcher award

We’re excited to announce Willem Bonnaffé as the winner of the 2023 Robert May Prize, celebrating the best article in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Winner: Willem Bonnaffé Research: Fast fitting of neural ordinary differential equations by Bayesian neural gradient matching to infer ecological interactions from time-series data About the Research In previous work, Willem Bonnaffé and Tim Coulson … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2023: Winner announced for early career researcher award

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Robert May Prize

Detangling NODEs

I’m Willem Bonnaffé,  a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. In my research, I integrate biological data, mathematical modelling, and machine learning. I spend most of my time modelling natural systems with neural ordinary differential equations – NODEs or Neural ODEs for short. In this blog post, I am hoping to shed light on what these models are and how I came to use … Continue reading Detangling NODEs

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Robert May Prize

Does my species senesce?

Post provided by Lotte de Vries Animals and plants exhibit a wide range of patterns of longevity, growth, and reproduction but the general drivers of this enormous variation in life history are poorly understood. Comparative demography uses large demographic databases to attempt to identify patterns in life-history strategies across the tree of life (e.g. this PNAS paper, and this one). In this paper, we show … Continue reading Does my species senesce?

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Robert May Prize

Increasing Complexity in Species Distribution Modelling

Megan Laxton and colleagues originally set out to translate an existing example of a species distribution model into a new software framework. However, what originated as a simple modelling example developed into a discussion on structural complexity in species distribution models. Complexity in Species Distribution Models The original idea for our paper was to provide a worked example demonstrating the usage of the R package … Continue reading Increasing Complexity in Species Distribution Modelling

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