Watch the CEE meeting, Integrating ecology into macroevolutionary research

By way of an introduction to this blog post, watch this! Back in March the Centre for Ecology and Evolution in London organised a meeting that brought together top researchers in macroevolution. The idea of the meeting was to highlight how advances in the study of macroevolution could be made by a closer integration with ecology, and the incoroporation of ecological ideas and ecological models. … Continue reading Watch the CEE meeting, Integrating ecology into macroevolutionary research

Newly accepted articles

As you can see, there’s a huge variety across the articles we’ve most recently accepted for publication: Guidelines for estimating repeatability Matthew Wolak, Daphne Fairbairn and Yale Paulsen Reservations about preservations: storage methods affect δ13C signatures differently even in closely related soil fauna Eveline Krab, Richard Van Logtestijn, Hans Cornelissen and Matty Berg How safe is mist netting? evaluating the risk of injury and mortality … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

MEE now to be found on ISI Web of Knowledge

Just a quick post to highlight that Methods in Ecology and Evolution is starting to be indexed on the Web of Knowledge, with 3 of our issues included  for the first time this week in the online database. This is great news: it will make our papers visible to a wide audience and eventually we will get an impact factor. We are already getting lots … Continue reading MEE now to be found on ISI Web of Knowledge

Methods digest – update

A round up of recent methods-relevant research published recently: it is ages since we did this, largely because the journal has been so busy with papers coming in and being published. Do send through links to any new methods papers to me or to the journal, or post a comment below. In Evolution, Werthelm & Sanderson look at how estimates of diversification rates are influenced … Continue reading Methods digest – update

Newly accepted articles

Following on from our previous updates, the latest round of manuscripts accepted by the Methods in Ecology and Evolution board include: Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function by Nicholas Gotelli, Werner Ulrich and Fernando Maestre Comparison of seed phenolic extraction and assay methods by Kristen Granger, Robert Gallagher, E. Fuerst and J. Alldredge Temporal scaling of episodic point estimates of seed predation … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

Top papers for March

March may be a distant memory to some, but at the Methods in Ecology and Evolution office it’s very much on our minds as we’ve just received the March update to our top papers. Freya Harrison’s review article on getting started with meta-analysis remains our most downloaded paper (and you can listen to a podcast on getting started with meta-analysis if you’re pushed for time!), … Continue reading Top papers for March

New addition to the editorial board

We’re pleased to announce that Luke Harmon has become the newest member of the Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial board, taking up the role of Associate Editor. Luke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho, whose research interests focus on  developing new comparative methods and applying them to large phylogenetic datasets: Ongoing progress in building the tree of life provides a rare … Continue reading New addition to the editorial board

Newly accepted articles

Another round of exciting papers have been accepted by the Methods in Ecology and Evolution team, including Model-aided learning for adaptive management of natural resources: an evolutionary design perspective by Jeroen Groot and Walter Rossing Accounting for non-independent detection when estimating abundance of organisms with a Bayesian approach by Julien Martin, Jeffrey Royle, Darryl Mackenzie, Holly Edwards, Marc Kery and Beth Gardner An integrated model … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

Virtual Issues on Forests and Global Change

In celebration of the UN’s International Year of Forests, and the British Ecological Society’s Symposium on Forests and Global Change, the Journal of Applied Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution have worked together to bring you two complementary virtual issues in these areas: one dealing with environmental management, and the other the most relevent new methodological developments in forest and global change research. Sample … Continue reading Virtual Issues on Forests and Global Change

Top papers for February

We’ve just been given the latest stats on our top downloaded articles for February, which make for some interesting reading. As you will (hopefully!) already know, Methods in Ecology and Evolution switched from being free for all to opt-in only at the start of this year, and we’ve seen some dramatic changes in download patterns since the switchover. Our Application papers have been heavily downloaded … Continue reading Top papers for February