Summer is here in London, which means it’s time for our July issue! Featuring methods for documenting predator hunting behaviour, identifying plant species, monitoring small nocturnal mammal species & many more! Read on to discover our featured articles, specially selected by Senior Editor Bob O’Hara, plus find out more about the Applications and Practical Tools articles we have in this issue. Featured Articles Protein quantification … Continue reading July Issue Out Now!
To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are posting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride flag. In this post, Gawain Antell describes the process of sewing a Progress Pride flag with science-themed fabric, while stitching together the identities of being an aromantic asexual palaeobiologist.
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To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are posting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride flag. In this post, Daniel Trotter discusses his research on physics and computational neuroscience under the Progress Pride flag theme of ‘Transgender Pride’.
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We are very excited to announce the launch of our new podcast! Listen to MEEin3 to hear the latest methods in ecology and evolution in just three minutes.
Got three minutes to spare? Listen now to the pilot episode, in which Dr Chloe Robinson tells us about her method for preserving benthic arthropods for DNA metabarcoding.
Continue reading “MEEin3 – Our New Podcast Launches Today!”To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are posting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride flag. In this post, Adrian Monthony discusses his Cannabis tissue culture research under the Progress Pride flag theme of ‘Harmony’.
Continue reading “Rainbow Research: Harmony”The sixth issue of the year of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is out now! This issue features four Applications and one Practical Tools article, as well as methods for standardising biologging data, marking mosquitoes, calculating heterogeneity indices and much more. And scroll down to find out the story behind the sleepy seal on this month’s cover! Featured Articles Distance sampling of high-density species Line-transect … Continue reading June Issue Out Now!
To celebrate UK Pride Month, the British Ecological Society journal blogs are posting a ‘Rainbow Research’ series, which aims to promote visibility of STEM researchers from the LGBTQ+ community. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one of the colours shown in the Progress Pride flag. In this post, Natalie Yoh discusses their bat conservation research under the flag theme of ‘Nature’.
Continue reading “Rainbow Research: Nature”We are inviting contributions from LGBTQ+ ecologists and evolutionary biologists for a series of blog posts across the British Ecological Society journals for UK Pride Month, which takes place in June. The series, called Rainbow Research, aims to promote visibility and inclusion of researchers from the LGBTQ+ community with posts promoting them and their research. Each post will be connected to a theme represented by one … Continue reading Rainbow Research: Contribute to our Pride Month Blog Series!
The May Issue of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is now online! This issue includes five Featured Articles selected by our Senior Editor Aaron Ellison, highlighting methods for identifying flow modules in ecological networks, detecting rare terrestrial mammals, assessing functional diversity in plants and more! We also have 12 articles, including one Practical Tools and two Applications, which are completely free to read. Find out … Continue reading May Issue Out Now
Post provided by Michael Rzanny & Jana Wäldchen
Species identification is an essential tool for recording biodiversity, especially in an era of habitat loss and climate change. Developing skills to correctly identify plants to a species or even a genus level can take many years of training, but a new app called Flora Incognita aims to empower citizens with botanical expertise while also collecting data for scientific analysis.
In this blog post, Michael Rzanny and Jana Wäldchen reveal the inspiration behind this new app and discuss highlights from their new paper “The Flora Incognita app – interactive plant species identification” recently published in Methods in Ecology & Evolution.
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