Our February issue is now online now! This issue contains 32 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including a special feature on Leveraging Natural History Collections to Understand the Impacts of Global Change, robot herding and much more! Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover. Special Feature This issue contains 11 articles which are part … Continue reading Our February Issue is out now!
Post provided by Nathan Hirtle (he/him)
A whale’s size not only provides information on its own health, but also the status of the marine ecosystem in which it lives. So how do scientists weigh the biggest creatures on planet? In this blog post, Nathan Hirtle shares insight from his recent paper on measuring the volume of whales using drone images.
Continue reading “How to weigh a whale”Our January issue is now online now open access! This issue contains 23 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including a special feature on Large data and complex models, methods on food web visualisation, biologging and much more! Read our first open access issue to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover. Special feature Realising the Promise … Continue reading Our January issue is now online and open access!
Post provided by Anthony Ives
It was a true privilege to be asked to write the inaugural E. C. Pielou Review for Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The first ecology book I bought as an undergraduate was her Ecological Diversity (1975) which still sits on my bookshelf full of marginalia. Both ecology and evolution have long and rich histories of theoretical and empirical work, yet sometimes theory and observation have been only loosely connected. Pielou’s work made it possible to link theory and observation more tightly by providing quantitative, statistical metrics to describe patterns in the world that can be related back to theory.
Continue reading “Random errors are neither: interpretation of correlated data“Post provided by Sam Nicol (He/Him)
Are you an eBirder who loves waders? Do you ever wonder where the birds that you see go after you’ve studiously uploaded your counts to the database? It’s a good question, and in the past, it has been surprisingly hard to answer. In this post, Sam Nicol discusses how citizen science is being used to investigate bird migration.
Continue reading “Using citizen science data to track migratory shorebird populations”Post provided by Diego Llusia (he/him), Camille Desjonquères (she/her) and Sara Víllen-Peréz (she/her)
Many species produce sound as a means of communication, emitting calls or songs to broadcast information to others in the surrounding area. In this blog post, Diego Llusia, Camille Desjonquères, and Sara Víllen-Peréz discuss their research on recording animal calls and how these soundtracks can be used to help monitor the impacts of climate change.
Continue reading “Understanding climate change through animal song“Alessandro Filazzola & Christopher Lortie tell us about their new article ‘A call for clean code to effectively communicate science‘, which provides a series of recommendations and a suite of tools that can be used to help support scientists to produce cleaner code. Can you clearly understand the code that you have written? What about if you gave it to a colleague? Or a reviewer? … Continue reading How to write clean code
Our September issue is now online! This issue contains 22 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for using the US National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), measuring understory vegetation structure, inducing cancer in invertebrates and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our magical marine cover. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) In this … Continue reading September 2022 Issue Out Now!
Our August Issue is now online! This issue contains 15 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for estimating forest above-ground biomass, tracing essential amino acid assimilation, autonomous biodiversity surveys and much more! Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our wonderful whale cover. Featured Articles Estimating forest above-ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning Improving the … Continue reading August 2022 Issue Out Now!
Our July Issue is now online! This issue contains 20 articles about the latest methods in ecology and evolution, including methods for characterising soil bacterial biodiversity, identifying fish species in fish markets using eDNA, standarising and cleaning biodiversity data and much more! Plus, read the editorial about our switch to a gold open access model this month. Read on to find out about this month’s featured articles … Continue reading July 2022 Issue Out Now!
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