General, Journal updates, Methods papers, Online extras, Phylogenetic analysis

Diversitree video – starring Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird

Method’s latest video, “Diversitree”, is now available to view on our YouTube channel. In this quirky demonstration, Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird disagree on how colour affects the diversification of birds. Rich FitzJohn shows them how to test their hypotheses using the comparative phylogenetic methods implemented in the R package “diversitree”, recently described in the Methods paper “Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R“. This … Continue reading Diversitree video – starring Mr Blueberry and Fairly-Small-Yellow-Bird

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Open Access Week 2012

Open Access Week is now underway, from today until the 28th October. Organised by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), this week-long event aims to promote and raise awareness of open access publishing within the scientific and academic research community. Institutions and universities from all over the world are getting involved and there’s an extensive calender of events that you can browse through … Continue reading Open Access Week 2012

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Another Methods video on YouTube – Modelling dispersal-limited species

Have a look at the latest Methods video! In issue 3.5, Martin Sullivan and colleagues published an article which deals with the problems of predicting non-native species distribution. They used dispersion weighting models to overcome this and then applied the method to a real case study, the distribution of common waxbill Estrilda astrild in the Iberian Peninsula. They then developed this accompanying video, which you … Continue reading Another Methods video on YouTube – Modelling dispersal-limited species

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Movebank Tutorial video now live

David Douglas et al.’s article has been published early online today, entitled Moderating Argos location errors in animal tracking data. Accompanying this article is a short video that provides a useful tutorial on how to run the Douglas Argos filter – an algorithm that flags implausible locations – in Movebank, a free online infrastructure for storing, managing, sharing and analysing animal movement data. You can … Continue reading Movebank Tutorial video now live

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New video online – Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement

We’ve added a new video to our YouTube channel today, entitled “Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement” by John Fieberg and Mark Ditmer. In this video, John discusses some of the challenges associated with inferring causal relationships among animal movement characteristics and indicators of an animal’s physiological condition.  Specifically, John and Mark explore models that relate estimates of daily movement rates to average … Continue reading New video online – Understanding the causes and consequences of animal movement

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Issue 3.5 is now online

Method’s newest issue has just been published online – Issue 3.5 covers a broad range of areas, including abundance estimation, pathology, plant physiology, statistical methods, and much more. The Editor’s highlights include a research article on the advances in multiplex PCR by Daniela Sint and colleagues, and a research article on structured elicitation of expert judgments for threatened species assessment by Marissa F. McBride and … Continue reading Issue 3.5 is now online

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New videos – FlexParamCurve

Have a look at our newly updated YouTube channel – we’ve added 2 new videos today, an introduction to FlexParamCurve and a subsequent tutorial. In the introductory video, Steve Oswald (Penn State) and Andre Chiaradia (Phillip Island) discuss how ‘FlexParamCurve’ makes nonlinear curve fitting accessible for non-monotonic parametric curves, through automated curve selection and parametrisation in a mixed effects model framework. They visit Phillip Island’s … Continue reading New videos – FlexParamCurve

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MEE’s top papers

Check out our newly updated top articles page, which shows MEE’s 10 most frequently downloaded papers, in August 2012. The top 5 are: A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems by Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Chris S. Elphick Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring by Douglas W. Yu, Yinqiu Ji, Brent C. Emerson, Xiaoyang Wang, … Continue reading MEE’s top papers

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MEE ‘highly commended’ in ALPSP best new journal category

Last night, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (MEE) was highly commended and announced as the runner up in the ALPSP best new journal award! The results were announced at the ALPSP annual conference dinner. Awards were presented for both best new journal, and publishing innovation. 4 journals were shortlisted in our category, and we were pipped at the post by Postmedieval, a journal of medieval … Continue reading MEE ‘highly commended’ in ALPSP best new journal category

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