We’d like to welcome Erica Leder to the Methods Associate Editor Board, from the University of Turku. Erica brings us expertise in molecular methods and the evolution of the phenotype. Click on her photo to read more about her research interests. Continue reading New Associate Editor
Every year the British Ecological Society awards a prize for the best paper in each of its 5 journals, by an author at the start of their research career. This freely available Virtual Issue entitled “Young Investigator Prize Winners 2012” brings together the winning papers from each journal, in addition to 2 highly commended papers from each journal, all of which were published in an … Continue reading Virtual Issue – BES Young Investigator Prize Winners 2012
From 1 April 2013, Research Councils UK implemented its new open access policies. All 5 of the BES Journals are compliant with these changes via the full gold open access route. You can read about this in more detail on the BES Journals publication page. Visit the other BES Journals: – Functional Ecology – Journal of Ecology – Journal of Animal Ecology – Journal of … Continue reading RCUK’s new open access policy
Issue 4.4 is now online! This month we have included articles model fitting, mantel tests, measuring decay, measuring diversity, growth curves and mortality rates. The issue includes the free application article “geomorph: an r package for the collection and analysis of geometric morphometric shape data“, and an open access paper entitled “Fitting complex ecological point process models with integrated nested Laplace approximation“. About the cover: … Continue reading Issue 4.4
Issue 4.3 is now available to read online, spanning parasitology, diversity and distributions, behavioral ecology, heredity and theoretical population biology. It also includes the freely available application article “Sample Planning Optimization Tool for conservation and population Genetics (SPOTG): a software for choosing the appropriate number of markers and samples”. About the cover: Long-term demographic studies that use individually identified animals offer invaluable views of ecological … Continue reading Issue 4.3
We would like to welcome the following new Associate Editors to the Methods team! Justin Travis from the University of Aberdeen, UK, Mike Bunce from Murdoch University, Australia, and Shinichi Nakagawa from the University of Otago, New Zealand. Click on their pictures below to read about their research interests, and to view our full editorial board: Continue reading New Associate Editors
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of MAXENT. Have you got the impression that it’s some revolutionary new method that sits apart from classical methods like GLM? If so I have some big news for you. First a little background – maximum entropy modelling (MAXENT) had its origins in the 1950’s, and went quiet for some time before a resurgence in the machine learning literature … Continue reading Some big news about MAXENT
In Methods’ latest video, Travis Ingram gives a brief introduction to the new phylogenetic comparative method SURFACE. This method uses stepwise AIC to fit a series of stabilizing selection models to a phylogenetic tree and trait data, and to quantify the extent of convergent evolution toward the same selective regimes. The tutorial explains how SURFACE works, and then shows an example analysis in R. You … Continue reading New Video – SURFACE: Detecting convergence with stepwise AIC
Issue 4.2 is now available online! This month we include articles on videos and cameras, statistical methods, animal populations, amphibians, distribution modeling, biomass estimations and genetic algorithms. There are also 2 freely available application articles on IPMpack: an R package for integral projection models, and Harmonizing, annotating and sharing data in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research. About the cover: The image shows the Yorkshire Dales National Park … Continue reading Issue 4.2
The Robert May Prize is awarded annually to the best paper published in Methods by a young author at the start of their research career. We’re delighted to announce that the 2012 winner is Sarah Papworth from Imperial Collage London, for her article “Movement ecology of human resource users: using net squared displacement, biased random bridges and resource utilization functions to quantify hunter and gatherer … Continue reading 2012 Robert May Prize Winner
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