Seeds ‘exposed’! A method to automatically reveal seed morphological traits from images.

Post provided by Roberta L. C. Dayrell The knowledge of seed morphology is an essential resource for practitioners and scientists across diverse disciplines such as botany, agriculture, restoration, conservation, and archaeology. Morphological attributes can inform studies on topics such as seed dispersal, predation, longevity, and germination. This knowledge also has practical applications, including seed identification and assessments of quality and ripeness. But extracting meaningful information … Continue reading Seeds ‘exposed’! A method to automatically reveal seed morphological traits from images.

besmeeJune 21, 2023June 20, 2023Leave a comment

Methods papers, Statistical methods, Theoretical methods

Heat waves reconstructed!

Post provided by Loke von Schmalensee For many decades, humans have tried to understand how to process continuous signals for our convenience. As a result, numerous innovative methods have been developed for recording, compressing, restoring, and transforming (and more) continuous signals. Consider, for instance, the relationship between signal processing and music: it comes into play directly through the recording of sound waves, and indirectly via … Continue reading Heat waves reconstructed!

besmeeJune 15, 2023Leave a comment

Journal Issues

Our June Issue is out now!

Our June issue is now online now! This issue contains 17 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including citizen science data, drones and multi authored papers and much more! Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover. Featured Articles Researchers in ecology and evolutionary biology are increasingly dependent on computational code to conduct research. Hence, the … Continue reading Our June Issue is out now!

besmeeJune 13, 2023July 27, 2023Leave a comment

Editor Profiles

Welcoming our new Methods in Ecology and Evolution Associate Editors

Methods in Ecology and Evolution is delighted to announce 13 new Associate Editors who have joined the Editorial Board following our latest open call across all seven BES journals Dr Timo AdamUniversity of Copenhagen, Denmark My research focuses on the development, implementation, and application of innovative statistical methods for stochastic processes, particularly hidden Markov models and their flexible extensions. I am particularly interested in statistical … Continue reading Welcoming our new Methods in Ecology and Evolution Associate Editors

besmeeMay 26, 2023June 20, 2023Leave a comment

Ecology, Field Methods, Statistical methods

Using citizen science photos to perform phenological studies

Post provided by Yves P. Klinger (he/him)

Photos collected by citizen scientists are a rich source of information that is still relatively unexplored. Phenology, the study of recurring biological events, could make use of photos taken by citizen scientists at different times, but accessing and preparing the plethora of publicly available data is challenging. In this post, Yves P. Klinger describes the motivation behind developing a workflow for using citizen science photos for phenological research, as featured in the paper “iPhenology – using open-access citizen science photos to track phenology at continental scale”.

Ben WhittakerMay 22, 2023May 22, 20231 Comment

Ecology, Methods papers

Unraveling the identity of fish sounds to support marine conservation

Post provided by Xavier Mouy Fish sounds and marine conservation Many fish species produce sounds to attract mates, scare away predators or defend their territory. These sounds are very useful to us, scientists! Just by listening to the ocean, we can detect the presence of different fish species, infer their behaviour and potentially find out how many fish there are in an environment. This has … Continue reading Unraveling the identity of fish sounds to support marine conservation

besmeeMay 11, 2023May 10, 2023Leave a comment

Journal Issues

Our May issue is out now!

Our May issue is now online now! This issue contains 18 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including species distribution models, temperature measurements and much more! Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover. Featured articles The insurance effect of biodiversity—that diversity stabilises aggregate ecosystem properties—is mechanistically underlain by inter- and intraspecific trait variation in organismal … Continue reading Our May issue is out now!

besmeeMay 5, 2023Leave a comment

Statistical methods

wingen: mapping genetic diversity using moving windows

Post provided by Anusha Bishop (she/her)

Global biodiversity loss and increased availability of genomic-scale data has motivated a growing interest in conserving genetic diversity. To do so, we need tools that help us understand how genetic diversity is distributed. In pursuit of this, we have developed a new method for creating maps of genetic diversity using spatial moving windows, which we have implemented in the R package wingen.

Ben WhittakerMay 3, 2023May 2, 2023Leave a comment

Robert May Prize

Robert May Prize 2022: Winner announced for early career researcher award

We’re excited to announce Tanya Strydom as the winner of the 2022 Robert May Prize , celebrating the best article in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Winner: Tanya Strydom Research: Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low-rank network representation About the Research Despite their importance in many ecological processes, collecting data and information on ecological interactions is an … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2022: Winner announced for early career researcher award

besmeeApril 28, 2023Leave a comment

Robert May Prize

Wind-robust sound event detection and denoising for bioacoustics

Post provided by Julius Juodakis Common solutions to wind noise don’t work with bioacoustics Bioacoustics has great potential to help us understand animal communities. We already have strikingly futuristic hardware for capturing natural sounds, such as the autonomous Audiomoth or the 5-gram μMoth recorders, and projects making use of it, such as the live-observation WhaleMap, SAFE Project in Borneo, or the Australian Acoustic Observatory, the … Continue reading Wind-robust sound event detection and denoising for bioacoustics

besmeeApril 21, 2023April 21, 2023Leave a comment