In this video, David Warton interviews Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie of the University of Wollongong. Noel is a big name in spatial statistics, an advocate of hierarchical modeling in ecology, and the author of a key reference text in spatial statistics, and more recently “Statistics for Spatio-temporal data” with Chris Wikle; David and Noel discuss all of these topics in this interview. Continue reading An interview with Noel Cressie
Issue 4.10 is now online! This month’s issue includes articles on animal movement, stable isotopes, biodiversity, remote sensing and tagging, along with 2 freely available applications: pavo and ITSx. About the cover: The conspicuous plumage of male crimson-hooded manakins (Pipra aureola) exemplifies some of the complex visual signals used by animals for mating and competition. Quantitative measurement of animal color through spectrophotometry has become increasingly … Continue reading Issue 4.10
Here’s a really useful resource from the British Ecological Society, that provides an introduction to peer review in ecology and evolution, information on best practice, ethics and FAQs: Continue reading A guide to peer review
We have a few more new Associate Editors to welcome to the Methods team, to help with our increasing number of submissions: Doug Yu from the University of East Anglia, and the Kunming Institute of Zoology in China; Ryan Chisholm from the National University of Singapore; and Patricia Backwell from the Australian National University. Continue reading New Associate Editors
Authors, here are some useful tips from our publisher, Wiley, to help you increase the visibility of your article online: Continue reading Tips to increase the visibility of your article online
We’d like to welcome Sean McMahon from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Tom Gilbert from the Natural History Museum of Denmark to the Methods Associate Editor Board. Click on their photos to read about their research interests. Continue reading New Associate Editors
Those of you who have looked carefully at the MEE submission system will know that, like a lot of other journals, we use the ScholarOne software to organise our review process. ScholarOne (who are owned by Thomson-Reuters: suppliers of Impact Factors to the gentry since 1975) have decided to run a Journal Triathlon this autumn. So, they are asking for nominations for journals in three categories:
You can read about the competition on the competition’s webpage, and also on their blog. You can also nominate a journal on the webpage, or vote for us as the greatest journal in the world.
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Issue 4.9 is now available online – containing articles on effective measurement, conservation biology, estimating demographic parameters, abundance estimation and modelling. There are also 2 freely available application articles:marked: an R package for maximum likelihood and Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of capture–recapture data and Program SimAssem: software for simulating species assemblages and estimating species richness. About the cover: As digital technology improves, applications of … Continue reading Issue 4.9
In this video, Methods‘ Associate Editor, David Warton, interviews Trevor Hastie, Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. Trevor is a leading figure in the discipline who has been instrumental in the development and uptake of a range of modern analysis methods, including generalised additive models, the LASSO, and boosting. Trevor talks about his recent paper “Inference from presence-only data; the ongoing controversy” with Will Fithian … Continue reading An interview with Trevor Hastie
Last week a couple of thousand of us turned up to within gliding distance of the London City Airport to attend Intecol. There we had the usual rounds of talks, meetings, coffee, lunches, workshops, more coffee, talks, and even fairy cakes. But the one thing that was new (aside from the usual new ecology) was the way the meeting worked with twitter.
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