Top 10 speciation and evolution papers

Methods will be attending the next ITN Speciation conference 2012 in Jyväskylä, Finland and to mark the occasion, the editorial team has put together a list of some our most relevant work in speciation and evolution. Applications – concise papers describing new software, equipment, or other practical tools: PASSaGE: Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis. Version 2 by Micheal Rosenberg and Corey Anderson RBrownie: … Continue reading Top 10 speciation and evolution papers

Network analyses of animal movement

Determining how animals move within their environment is a fundamental knowledge that contributes to effective management and conservation. In our latest video, David Jacoby and Edd Brooks explain how their paper brings together two disparate and rapid advancing fields: biotelemetry and social networking analyses. In a paper recently published in Methods, David, Edd and colleagues Darren Croft and David Sims, demonstrate some of the descriptive and … Continue reading Network analyses of animal movement

New associate editor

Methods is pleased to announce that Matthew Spencer has become the newest member of its editorial board, taking up the role of Associate Editor. Matt is a quantitative biologist at the University of Liverpool and is interested in using stochastic models to understand community dynamics and molecular evolution: In particular, I want to work with models that are simple, flexible, and can be applied to … Continue reading New associate editor

New associate editor

Methods is pleased to announce that Nick Isaac has become the newest member of its editorial board, taking up the role of Associate Editor. Nick is a macroecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology interested in questions about the abundance, distributions, diversity and extinction risk of species: My research generally involves data that are structured in space, time and/or phylogenetically. I started out using … Continue reading New associate editor

Explaining the cover image for issue 3.1

The African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) is endemic to closed-canopy forests of Central and West Africa and is the smallest of the world’s true crocodiles. The species is difficult to study in the wild and therefore poorly known, but likely plays an important ecological role as a top aquatic predator in cool water forest systems.  The dwarf crocodile is also a major food and economic … Continue reading Explaining the cover image for issue 3.1

Volume 3 Issue 1: Now online

It seems that from the number of submissions we receive at the journal, Methods in Ecology and Evolution has filled an important niche. As our editor-in-chief, Rob Freckleton, wrote to introduce our second volume: “those doing science need to be kept up to date on new approaches, and those developing new methods need a place to publish, as well as be supported in getting their … Continue reading Volume 3 Issue 1: Now online

2011 top cited papers – part 3

Welcome to part 3 of our review of the most highly cited papers published by Methods in Ecology and Evolution in 2011. In case you missed them, here are part 1 and part 2 of this series. Population monitoring and management Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology Douglas G. Barron, Jeffrey D. Brawn and Patrick J. Weatherhead The effects of geolocator drag … Continue reading 2011 top cited papers – part 3

2011 top cited papers – part 2

Today we look at part 2 of our most cited papers in Methods in Ecology and Evolution in 2011. Plant monitoring and modelling Comparison of seedling emergence and seed extraction techniques for estimating the composition of soil seed banks Jodi N. Price, Boyd R. Wright, Caroline L. Gross, Wal R. D. B. Whalley Stable isotope ecology Sensitivity of stable isotope mixing models to variation in … Continue reading 2011 top cited papers – part 2

2011 top cited papers – part 1

Methods in Ecology and Evolution will be receiving its first Impact Factor in summer 2012 and we are very impressed with how well our articles are being cited. For those of you who have been following Methods from the start, you will notice some papers that we have already mentioned last year in our top cited blog posts. These are still going strong! Over the … Continue reading 2011 top cited papers – part 1

Robert May Prize 2011

Each year our editors select the best paper published in Methods by a young researcher. We are delighted to announce that this year’s winner of the Robert May Prize is Tyler Kuhn for his paper co-authored with Arne Ø. Mooers and Gavin H. Thomas A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies published in vol. 2.5 of the journal. Tyler and co-authors present a simple approach … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2011