The first thing to point out this month is that issue 1 of the journal is now online here. To accompany the issue we have a podcast and a videocast. There is also now a journal correspondence site to host feedback and discussion of published papers, more on this soon. The one day journal launch symposium is accepting bookings, with a good response so far. However … Continue reading Methods Digest – March 2010
Two new papers on statistical methods are now available on “Early View”. The first is a paper by Holger Schielzeth on regression methods. In this paper Holger tries to raise awareness of the importance of standardizing and centring input variables before analysis in order to improve the interpretability of coefficients. There are various advantages to doing this, for example in obtaining the standard errors for … Continue reading New papers – regression modelling and one-sided hypothesis testing
This monthly digest is a bit late as we have been busy writing an editorial and finalizing the running order for the first issue of the journal. That should be online in a couple of weeks. Pre-publication versions of papers are here, whilst an up-to-date list of accepted papers is here. The very latest updates are also available via Twitter and Facebook. In Ecology Letters, … Continue reading Methods Digest – February 2010
Four more papers have gone online this month and we are close to being able to put together the first issue of the journal! In the first new paper to be published Adrian Barnett and colleagues present a comparison of methods for selecting the correct variance structure for longitudinal data. This is likely to be of considerable interest as it is a paper about how … Continue reading Allometry, statistics, telemetry and physiology – new papers online
Four new papers have been published online this month. These cover a range of topics including ecological modelling, measuring diversity, detecting range shifts and physiological ecology. In the first paper, Gideon Gal and William Anderson outline a new method for detecting regime shift in ecosystems. Regime shifts occur when the state of an ecosystem changes markedly and rapidly, usually with a dramatic shift in species … Continue reading Four new papers published in January
A belated happy new year! Here is this month’s round-up of methods papers published in the last month. Do let me know if there are any papers that I have missed that could be featured. In Systematic Biology Brian O’Meara presents new heuristics for joint species delimitation and tree inference. A new comparative method for logistic regression controlling for phylogeny is outlined by Ives & … Continue reading Methods Digest – January 2010
A round-up of methods papers published in the last month. If there are any papers that you think should be featured, email me or leave a comment and I will add them. Liam Revell has a paper in Evolution on size correction and principal components analysis of phylogenetic comparative data. Olivier Gimenez and colleagues also have a paper in the same issue on generating fitness … Continue reading Methods Digest – December 2009
Phylogenetic comparative methods are always an area of hot discussion and lots of methodological development. So I thought it would be useful to highlight some recent papers that have developed new methods in the past year. Please email me or leave a comment if there is anything I have omitted or if something new comes out. Thomas Hansen and colleagues have introduced a new method … Continue reading Phylogenetic comparative methods
The first paper accepted in Methods in Ecology & Evolution is now available online! This paper is by Alain Zuur, Elena Ieno and Chris Elphick – Alain is well known in the ecological and R community for his books Analysing Ecological Data, Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R and A Beginner’s Guide to R and for the courses he runs on statistics. … Continue reading First paper now online!
Here is a round-up of interesting methods and methods-related papers published in the past few weeks. Please do pass on any interesting-looking papers / links and I will include them. In Heredity Blanya et al. review the use of Drosophila subobscura as a tool in research on the microevolutionary consequences of climate change. There are several methods-relevant papers in the latest issue of Evolution: Céline … Continue reading Methods Digest – November 2009
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