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
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
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
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
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
Methods in Ecology and Evolution is still available to read, for free, online – but now only on an opt-in basis. So if you’re having difficulty accessing any of our papers, please don’t despair: by emailing your institutional librarian a link to this form, and asking them to request free access to MEE, they’ll be able to sign your library up for free, institution-wide access … Continue reading Having trouble viewing papers?
The International Biogeography Society has just held their 5th meeting in Crete and I thought I would pick some highlights that are methods relevant. This meeting brings together a range of researchers from the intersection of ecology, evolutionary biology, geography, geology and systematics: a truly diverse grouping. Biogeography is, in essence concerned with the distributions of species and how these change with time. It is … Continue reading Methods in Biogeography
We have been uploading videos and podcasts for a year now – these have proved really popular, both with authors and readers of the journal. I thought I would just take this opportunity to highlight some of the online content that is supporting articles from the first 3 issues: Our podcasts include:- An introduction to meta analysis Modelling range shifts The Primate Life-History Database Phenological … Continue reading A year of podcasts and videos
I hope that you have had an enjoyable and productive summer – this is just to update on a few bits of news from Methods in Ecology and Evolution. First, Issue 3 has appeared – there are articles on topics including: Evolutionary Ecology Stable Isotopes Population modelling & monitoring Parasitology Conservation & community ecology Second, the first year of the journal has been enormously succesful … Continue reading Methods in Ecology and Evolution – news
Here is the methods digest update for June 2010 – do let me know if there is anything that you think I should feature. In Oikos Novak & Wooton have a paper on using indices to quantify the effects of comeptition and Landau & Ryan present new ‘null model tests for presence-absence data’ (NMTPAs). A paper in Conservation Letters by Michael Kearney et al. evaluates species … Continue reading Methods digest – June 2010
