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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Got an iPad? Get the new Methods journal app to keep you up to date with our latest content. The app can be freely downloaded from iTunes, and enables you to: – Download and read our most recent issues – Stay current with the latest articles – Be notified when a new issue is available – Save your favourite articles for quick and easy access … Continue reading New Methods app
Issue 4.8 is now online, containing a Special Feature entitled Unifying Fossils and Phylogenies for Comparative Analyses of Diversification and Trait Evolution, guest edited by Graham Slater and Luke Harmon. Below, Graham describes why they chose to put this Special Feature together:
Since the mid-Twentieth century, the study of evolution has been divided into two sub-disciplines. Microevolution refers to evolutionary change within and among populations of a single species, and is the focus of fields such as population genetics. Macroevolution refers to evolutionary change at and above the level of the species. Studies of phylogenetics, diversification, and major phenotypic transitions all fall under the banner of macroevolution.
Since it’s launch in 2010, Methods has become one of the most important venues for introducing Continue reading “Issue 4.8 Special Feature: Fossils and Phylogenies”
Next week, The British Ecological Society and INTECOL will hold the 11th International Congress of Ecology in London as part of the Society’s centenary celebrations. The papers included in this free Virtual Issue are from a selection of keynote and plenary speakers published across the BES Journals, and represent one of the key themes of INTECOL – international collaboration. Together, they highlight the importance of international … Continue reading BES Virtual Issue: International Collaboration
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