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

Newly accepted articles

Another busy month for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial team, with a host of new papers due to appear on Early View over the coming weeks, including: Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests by Shannon Pelini, Francis Bowles, Aaron Ellison, Nicholas Gotelli, Nathan Sanders and Robert Dunn A simple polytomy resolver for dated … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

Visualising MEE online

How time flies! Methods in Ecology and Evolution published its very first online extra one year ago today. In recognition of this, we’ve put together the following infographic which draws on the various web extras we’ve done since then. Words are sized according to their relative frequency in the Methods RSS feed, containing blog posts, videos and podcasts. Click to enlarge! Continue reading Visualising MEE online

Volume 2 Issue 1: Now online

We launched Methods in Ecology in Evolution because we thought that there was a huge demand for methods papers: those doing science need to be kept up to date on new approaches, and those developing new methods need a place to publish, as well as be supported in getting their methods used. Our first volume has exceeded all expectations and we are really pleased to … Continue reading Volume 2 Issue 1: Now online

Newly accepted articles

It’s been a busy month for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution team, with six fantastic new papers accepted for publication in the journal: A semi-Markov model to assess reliably survival patterns from birth to death in free-ranging populations by Remi Choquet, Anne Viallefont, Lauriane Rouan, Kamel Gaanoun and Jean-Michel Gaillard Impact of sampling with replacement in occupancy studies with spatial replication by Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita … Continue reading Newly accepted articles