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 

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

Post provided by Bruno do Rosario Petrucci Inferring rates of diversification from phylogenies and fossils has been a focus of evolutionary biology for generations, since a quantitative understanding of the dynamics of speciation and extinction is necessary for a complete picture of the history of life. Computational and statistical methods with that goal have recently seen an explosion in complexity and power. While exciting, this … Continue reading Searching for my (paleo)buddies

Post provided by Sandra J. Simon Working with a Genetic Model During my PhD at West Virginia University (WVU), I worked with the genetic models in the family Salicaceae, such as Populus trichocarpa,to understand the relationship between plant genetics and biotic interactions. Let’s take a moment to focus on what makes P. trichocarpa a good species to use as a genetic model by comparing it … Continue reading Increasing the accessibility of genetic sequencing with ISSRseq