Welcome to Liam Revell from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Liam brings Methods expertise in computer-based phylogeny methods, and the evolutionary ecology of reptiles. He has previously published with us, and his articles are currently in Methods top papers list, containing our most highly cited and downloaded articles. Click on his photo to read more about his work. Continue reading New Associate Editor
In Animal Ecology (1927), Charles Elton wrote that “while ecological work is fascinating to do, it is unbearably dull to read about.” It is reassuring that things were just as bad 86 years ago. Here, I want to think about why not all ecological work is unbearably dull to read about, and what this means for ecological methods. To my mind, the two things that … Continue reading Strangeness and simplicity in ecology
To accommodate Methods ever-increasing number of submissions, we’ve recruited another Associate Editor! Welcome to Barb Anderson. Barb is currently at James Cook University, Australia, but will be moving to the University of Otago in New Zealand this July, and she is also still affiliated with the University of York, UK. Click on her photo to read more about her field of research. Continue reading New Associate Editor
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
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