MEE has an impact factor
Yesterday the ISI announced the 2011 impact factors. This is the first year Methods in Ecology and Evolution has been given an IF. And our factor is…
5.093
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New MEE article featured in Faculty of 1000
Another of our recent articles, Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation, by Seth Wenger and Julian Olden, has recently been highlighted on Faculty of 1000. F1000 is a platform providing post-publication peer-review and selecting only the most important articles in biology and medicine. Just 2% of published articles are highlighted on Faculty of 1000 each month. Ben Bolker and Michael … Continue reading New MEE article featured in Faculty of 1000
How to advertise your Methods paper (and can you suggest better ways?)
Our latest wheeze at Methods is to suggest some ways of advertising your latest Methods paper. So, we now have a new section in our author guidelines giving some links to places you might want to go to to tell the world about your amazing new method to efficiently calculate the value of ecosystem services provided by the running of macroecology meetings. But we’re sure … Continue reading How to advertise your Methods paper (and can you suggest better ways?)
Methods in the press
Two articles have been recently highlighted in the press. Iain Stott, Dave Hodgson and Stuart Townley, University of Exeter, have developed Popdemo, a new software tool for helping prioritise efforts in species conservation. As well as determining which species need our help, it will also be useful in pest control and sustainable harvesting. The University press release was picked up by a variety of websites, … Continue reading Methods in the press
Issue 3.3
About the issue Issue 3.3 contains an amazing number of extra features: three videos, one podcast and one Powerpoint presentation. The topics in the issue range from DNA barcoding, surveys, measuring diversity, population and movement modelling and includes five free applications. About the cover Recently developed light-weighed tracking devices for positioning through light intensity pattern (‘geolocation’) have begun to greatly improve our knowledge of animal … Continue reading Issue 3.3
Recent content and new video
Lots of exciting content has recently gone online. Firstly, two interesting new applications (as always free): simapse, simulation maps for ecological niche modelling in Python and nadiv, an R package for estimating non-additive genetic variances in animal models. Also, two research articles. In the first, Julien Beguin and colleagues introduce an alternative procedure for fitting Bayesian hierarchical spatial models (BHSM) with quite general spatial covariance … Continue reading Recent content and new video
Updates to Methods applications: we need your advice
I hope that you all know that MEE publishes applications paper, which we make freely available for everyone to read, and the software is (of course) downloadable too. A couple of times over the last few weeks we have been asked to update some of the software code in the Applications. This presents us with a problem: whilst the occasional update is OK, if we … Continue reading Updates to Methods applications: we need your advice
MEE article featured in Faculty of 1000
Great recognition for one of our recent articles: Distance-based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects by David Warton, Stephen Wright and Yi Wang, on multivariate analysis in ecology. Warton and colleagues’ article has recently been highlighted on Faculty of 1000, a platform providing post-publication peer-review and selecting only the most important articles in biology and medicine. Just 2% of published articles are highlighted on Faculty … Continue reading MEE article featured in Faculty of 1000
Why Simpler Models are Better
(this is the first in a possibly irregular series of posts about papers that catch my eye. I don’t intend to only cover MEE papers, but I had to start somewhere)
A perennial worry for anyone building models for the real world is whether they actually represent the real world. If the whole process of finding and fitting a model has been done well, the model will represent the data. But the data is only part of the real world. How can we be sure our model will extrapolated beyond the data?
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New associate editors
Busy month at Methods, we are very pleased to announce that five new associated editors have just joined our journal: Olivier Gimenez, CNRS, France, Luca Giuggoli, University of Bristol, UK, Darren Kriticos, CSIRO, Australia, Jessica Metcalf, University of Oxford, UK, and Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama. Olivier is a population biologist with a background in biostatistics studying animal demography in wild populations. Luca … Continue reading New associate editors
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