Robert May Prize

2023 Robert May Prize Shortlist: Methods Ecology and Evolution’s Award for Early Career Researchers

The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. With entries spanning the 14th Volume of the journal, our Senior Editors carefully shortlisted the following 9 papers: Megan Laxton; Balancing structural complexity with ecological insight in Spatio-temporal species distribution models Charlotte de Vries; Discretising Keyfitz’ entropy for … Continue reading 2023 Robert May Prize Shortlist: Methods Ecology and Evolution’s Award for Early Career Researchers

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution: International Women’s Day 2024 

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2024, we are excited to share a collection of blog posts showcasing the work of some of our new Associate Editors. In each post, our editors discuss their experiences in ecology, as well as what this year’s theme, ‘Inspire Inclusion‘, means to them.   Dr Lorna Hernandez-Santin (She/her)  What work do you do?  These days I work mostly with restoration ecology. … Continue reading Methods in Ecology and Evolution: International Women’s Day 2024 

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Ecology

Key Concepts in Ecology: Competition 

This blog post on ‘Competition’ is part of the BES ‘Key Concepts in Ecology’ series, designed to help ecologists in learning the key topics in ecology! Take a look at the full series for a list of key topics you might typically find in an ecology textbook, each providing a quick introduction to the topic, and a list of suggested papers for students to refer … Continue reading Key Concepts in Ecology: Competition 

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Methods papers

Opening Ecology to Local, Traditional, and Indigenous Knowledge

Post provided by James T. Thorson Ecologists have a social responsibility to document, interpret, and forecast how human activities are impacting our shared world.  There’s an ongoing movement to open ecology to new voices: for example, the Biden-Harris Administration has directed US agencies to incorporate Indigenous Knowledge through ethical and mutually beneficial relationships with tribal nations.  This direction is clearly important, and requires developing new … Continue reading Opening Ecology to Local, Traditional, and Indigenous Knowledge

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Code and Applications, Ecology

ToxTrac: A free and user-friendly animal tracking software

Post provided by Magnus Andersson Animal tracking software no longer has to be costly or require advanced computational science skills to operate. Over the last decade, a significant number of free animal tracking software options have been released. However, many of these options suffer from infrequent updates and demand considerable computational expertise to utilize effectively. To address this issue, the creators of ToxTrac launched the … Continue reading ToxTrac: A free and user-friendly animal tracking software

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Ecology, Evolution

Key Concepts in Ecology: Adaptations to variable environments 

This blog post on ‘Adaptations to variable environments’ is part of the BES ‘Key Concepts in Ecology’ series, designed to help ecologists in learning the key topics in ecology! Take a look at the full series for a list of key topics you might typically find in an ecology textbook, each providing a quick introduction to the topic, and a list of suggested papers for … Continue reading Key Concepts in Ecology: Adaptations to variable environments 

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Journal Issues

Our January issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including automated tracking, unhatched eggs, quantifying colour vision and much more! Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured There are two distinct approaches to describing the distributions of biomass and species in food webs: one to consider them as discrete trophic levels (TLs); and the other … Continue reading Our January issue is out now!

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Cover Image Stories, Ecology, Practical Tools

The buzzOmeter: Recording buzzing insects in motion

Post provided by Marta Skowron Volponi Has the buzzing sound of a wasp flying past your ear ever made you recoil in fear of being stung? What if these buzzes are a warning display aimed at potential predators, just like the bees’ and wasps’ bright colouration that sends a message: “don’t touch me, I’m dangerous”? Or perhaps they are audio messages meant for other wasps? … Continue reading The buzzOmeter: Recording buzzing insects in motion

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Our December Issue is out now!

This issue contains 19 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including drones, leaf wettability and much more! Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Articles What makes for a good submission for Methods in Ecology and Evolution and what really doesn’t work? The best Methods papers, regardless of the article type, are about … Continue reading Our December Issue is out now!

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Spooky ecology: A celebration of bats

Marking the end of Bat appreciation month and Halloween explore some of the BES journals articles all about our favourite flying mammal! Bats are Important in many ways including as pollinators (Tremlett et al. 2020) , insect control, seed dispersal and can even  act as indicators of habitat health. Echolocation is a vital communication and navigation method and aid in locating prey (Lewanzik et al. … Continue reading Spooky ecology: A celebration of bats

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