We have been very busy this week and we have a whole range of recently accepted articles: Bats as bioindicators – The need of a standardized method for acoustic bat activity surveys Peter Stahlschmidt and Carsten Brühl Developing a deeper understanding of animal movements and spatial dynamics through novel application of network analyses David Jacoby, Edward Brooks, Darren Croft and David Sims BaSTA: an R … Continue reading Recently accepted articles
Long-term datasets yield a great deal of information and are increasingly used to inform conservation measures. In the first video of the new year, Gary Powney and Tom Oliver show how long-term monitoring data on the Speckled Wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria) from the UK monitoring butterfly scheme can be used to assess functional connectivity of the landscape. In a paper recently published in Methods, Gary … Continue reading Measuring functional connectivity using butterflies
The cover image for the last issue of the year of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is a biological soil crust (BSC), a community which may be composed by mosses, lichens, liveworths fungi and bacteria that are prevalent in drylands worldwide. Lichen-dominated BSCs (like the one in the image) affect multiple ecosystem functions in those habitats where they are present, including carbon and nitrogen cycling, … Continue reading Explaining the cover image for issue 2.6
Our last issue for 2011 is out. Issue 2.6 is packed with the latest methodological developments. We have four new articles on monitoring: from positional accuracy in the field by Mike Dodd to distance sampling butterflies by Nick Isaac and colleagues, to how to account for non-independent detection of individuals by Julien Martin and collaborators and, finally, to a class of spatial capture-recapture models for … Continue reading Issue 2.6
It’s been two years since the British Ecological Society and Wiley-Blackwell launched Methods in Ecology and Evolution, and the journal has got off to a fantastic start. Tremendous interest in the Society’s youngest publication, and an abundance of high-quality submissions, have led to its switch from quarterly to bi-monthly publication. Authors have proven quick to embrace the use of online technologies to improve the uptake … Continue reading Accessing Methods in 2012
Another week, another set of manuscripts accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: Functional rarefaction for species abundance data Carlo Ricotta, Sandrine Pavoine, Giovanni Bacaro and Alicia Acosta Sampling period, size, and duration influences measures of bat species richness from acoustic surveys Samuel Skalak, Richard Sherwin and R. Brigham Barcoding’s next top model: an evaluation of nucleotide substitution models for specimen identification Rupert Collins, Laura Boykin, Robert Cruickshank and Karen Armstrong Asessing individual heterogeneity using model selection criteria: How many mixture … Continue reading Recently accepted articles
Our latest round of accepted articles include: A comparative study of ecological specialization estimators Timothée Poisot, Elsa Canard, Nicolas Mouquet and Michael Hochberg An objective, niche-based approach to indicator species selection Simon Butler, Robert Freckleton, Anna Renwick and Ken Norris Selecting pseudo-absences for species distribution models: how, where and how many? Morgane Barbet-Massin, Frédéric Jiguet, Cécile Albert and Wilfried Thuiller Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation Seth Wenger and Julian Olden Cascade Multivariate Regression Tree: a novel approach for modelling nested explanatory … Continue reading Recently accepted articles
Our most recently accepted articles include: phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things) Liam J. Revell Individual variation in response to intraspecific competition: problems with inference from growth variation measures Sigurd Einum, Torbjørn Forseth and Anders Finstad Testing the time-for-speciation effect in the assembly of regional biotas Daniel Rabosky An alternative SADIE local clustering index for studying spatial patterns Baohua Li, Larry Madden and Xiangming Xu Continue reading Recently accepted articles
Modern technology offers some really exciting new opportunities for the use of citizen science, and in our newest video Jonathan Silvertown, Open University, gives a demonstration of Evolution MegaLab, a huge collaboration exploring the use of citizen science methods to undertake high-quality surveys of polymorphism in a wild species. Jonathan demonstrates the site’s display of historical polymorphism data, some features designed to enable researchers to assess the … Continue reading Evolution MegaLab
This week marks the 5th annual International Open Access Week, and to celebrate this exciting milestone the journals of the British Ecological Society – including Methods! – have put together a special virtual issue of open access papers in ecology. The papers are drawn from all five journals, and cover a broad range of topics: from invasives, stress and insect ecology to wider issues in community … Continue reading International Open Access Week 2011
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