Listen to Methods latest Podcast by David Hawke, from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, in which he discusses his recently published paper “Closing the circle: how ecologists can prepare their own quality control material to increase confidence in stable isotope data“: Continue reading New podcast: Controlling error and stable isotope analysis
Issue 4.7 is now online! This issue includes articles on isotopes, abundance, occupancy, survival and acoustics. We also have 3 freely available applications: EasyABC: performing efficient approximate Bayesian computation sampling schemes using R by Franck Jabot et al., Congruification: support for time scaling large phylogenetic trees by Johnathan Eastman et al. and phyloGenerator: an automated phylogeny generation tool for ecologists by William Pearse and Andy Purvis. … Continue reading Issue 4.7
Did you know that members of the British Ecological Society (BES) get FREE ACCESS to Methods in Ecology and Evolution? The BES, established in 1913, is a learned society and registered charity, with over 4000 members worldwide. Its many activities include the publication of a range of scientific literature, including Methods and our 4 other internationally renowned sister journals, along with education work, policy work, … Continue reading Become a member of the British Ecological Society and get FREE ACCESS to MEE!
Yesterday the ISI released their new impact factors: the second year we have been given one. And this year ours is 5.924 (that 4 at the end is vitally important. Vitally) This means we’re now 12th in the Ecology impact factor league tables (yes, Diversity and Distributions, we’re gunning for you next), and are still the highest BES journal. We have been asking those nice … Continue reading Our shiny new Impact Factor
Timed for Evolution 2013, we have just put up a Virtual Issue highlighting some of the papers with an evolutionary theme published in the last year. The link between ecology and evolution is important to MEE: the research papers we have highlighted include excellent examples of these such as modelling dispersal and testing for niche conservatism. Barcoding methods are included, which increasingly are used in … Continue reading Virtual Issue: Evolution 2013
Issue 4.6 is now available online! This month Methods covers statistics, movement, community ecology, ecophysiology and demography. There are also 2 freely available applications articles: SimAdapt: an individual-based genetic model for simulating landscape management impacts on populations, by François Rebaudo et al., and nupoint: An R package for density estimation from point transects in the presence of nonuniform animal density, by Martin Cox et al. … Continue reading Issue 4.6
Demographic models have been used for decades in biology to assess population status or extinction risk, to guide management, and to explore evolutionary responses. Interestingly, these models are now more popular than ever. For instance, Crone et al. (2011) showed in their review that the use of matrix population models are currently expanding in plant ecology, and surely these are not the only types of … Continue reading Out of the jungle of demographic analyses
Methods has just started a 6 month trial with Altmetric. Altmetric is a powerful tool that tracks when an article has been mentioned online on websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, blog sites, news sites, Mendeley, CiteULike, and many more. When calculating an article’s score, Altmetric takes into account factors such as the number of people who have mentioned it online, the type of people … Continue reading Altmetric trial – Quantifying our online presence
Issue 4.5 is online today. This issue includes articles on species distribution models, connectivity, ecometabolomics, demography, image analysis and metabolites. There is also a freely available application paper entitled “RobOff: software for analysis of alternative land-use options and conservation actions“. About the cover: This image shows a female chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. During floods, animals often have to cross inundated … Continue reading Issue 4.5
The newest Associate Editor to join the Methods team is Carolyn Kurle from UC San Diego. Carolyn is interested in several aspects of marine and terrestrial vertebrate ecology. She uses stable isotope biogeochemistry to answer questions about trophic interactions, foraging ecology, niche partitioning, and animal movement patterns. She also studies the impacts of human perturbations, such as pollution and invasion, on ecological communities. Continue reading New Associate Editor
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