General, Journal updates, Online extras

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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General, Journal updates, Methods papers, Online extras

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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General, Journal updates, Methods papers

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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General, Journal updates, Methods papers

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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General, Journal updates, Uncategorized

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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General, Journal updates

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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Journal updates

Latest issue and other articles

Issue 3.4 Our latest issue covers an impressive array of subjects: from metabarcoding (with associated presentation), to population genetics and population monitoring (with video explaining a microphone array system). Modelling and monitoring dispersal also features heavily with four articles, one of which is accompanied by a video for a novel telemetry system to track wild animals. Articles also include topics such as transient dynamics, a review … Continue reading Latest issue and other articles

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Meetings

ISEC 2012: Ecological statistics in Norway

So. Last week I was just west of Oslo, in Norway, for the third International Statistical Ecology Conference (as I write registration is still open). This is a core area for Methods, and there was a strong contingent of MEE editors, authors and reviewers present. This was a good opportunity to chat to them, and generally raise the profile of the journal. It’s always nice to get feedback, and also help potential authors thinking about submitting – and even one author who’s paper I had just rejected.

The weather was excellent throughout the meeting:

Norway being nice
Proof it doesn’t always rain in Norway

so, of course, we had to spend so much time inside. But what, you are wondering, did we talk about?
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