Journal updates

Our twelfth application!

The publication of smatr 3 – an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines, by David Warton, Remko Duursma, Daniel Falster and Sara Taskinen, marks our twelfth published application paper – and, like the first eleven, it’s available for free. Methods in Ecology and Evolution’s applications are intended to provide a citable description of new methods and techniques in ecology and evolution, with the intention of promoting and maximising the uptake of … Continue reading Our twelfth application!

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Journal updates, Online extras

Modelling static and dynamic variables

Jessica Stanton discusses the problem of accounting for both static and dynamic variables in designing species distribution models under climate change in our newest author video. Related Read Combining static and dynamic variables in species distribution models under climate change by Jessica C. Stanton, Richard G. Pearson, Ned Horning, Peter Ersts and H. Reşit Akçakaya See other Methods in Ecology and Evolution author videos Continue reading Modelling static and dynamic variables

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Top papers for August

How safe is mist netting? Evaluating the risk of injury and mortality to birds remains our most highly accessed article for the second month in a row – just managing to stay ahead of RNCEP: global weather and climate data at your fingertips, which has been receiving fantastic interest since we published it in July of this year. This open source package, written in R, is intended to help … Continue reading Top papers for August

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Meetings

Publishing science in the online age

While our Editor-in-Chief will be chairing a session on methods in ecology and evolution at the BES Annual Meeting 2011, our Journal Coordinator is running a lunchtime workshop on publishing science in the online age. Journalist and blogger Ed Yong, Open Science advocate Ross Mounce, and BES journal editors Marc Cadotte and David Gibson, will all be talking about the various ways in which online communication has the potential to revolutionise … Continue reading Publishing science in the online age

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Meetings, Society

Methods in Ecology and Evolution at BES 2011

The topic for session 21 at this year’s Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society is “Methods in ecology and evolution”, chaired by our very own Editor-in-Chief Rob Freckleton – and several of the presentations link in to papers we’ve already published. The session runs from 11.15 to 13:00 on Tuesday the 13th of September, and we look forward to seeing you there! 11.15 Systematic … Continue reading Methods in Ecology and Evolution at BES 2011

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Journal updates

Top cited papers – part 3

Welcome back for the final part of our look at the most highly cited papers published by Methods in Ecology and Evolution so far, as recorded by ISI. (Don’t forget to look back at the first two parts, if you missed them previously!) Population monitoring Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology Douglas G. Barron, Jeffrey D. Brawn and Patrick J. Weatherhead Making overall … Continue reading Top cited papers – part 3

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Top cited papers – part 2

Here’s part 2 of our look at Methods in Ecology and Evolution’s most highly cited papers to date! 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 Experimentally testing the role of foundation species in forests: the Harvard Forest Hemlock Removal … Continue reading Top cited papers – part 2

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Journal updates

Top cited papers – part 1

ISI has only been indexing Methods in Ecology and Evolution for a short time, but some of our papers are already accumulating an impressive number of citations. Over the next few days we’ll be highlighting our most cited papers across a broad range of fields – just in case they’ve slipped you by. Statistical methods in ecology & evolution A protocol for data exploration to avoid common … Continue reading Top cited papers – part 1

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Measuring the importance of species to ecosystems

In this video to accompany their paper Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function, authors Nicholas Gotelli and Fernando Maestre discuss the introduction of simple tests for measuring the effect of species on ecosystem variables, and give us an insight into the logistics required for their paper’s “natural experiements” – involving the collection and preparation of over 25,000 lichen samples! The methodology presented in this paper … Continue reading Measuring the importance of species to ecosystems

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Journal updates

Recently accepted articles

Four more papers have been recently accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: REDDcalculator.com: a web-based decision-support tool for implementing Indonesia’s forest moratorium Lian Pin Koh, Holly Gibbs, Peter Potapov, Matthew Hansen PMx: software package for demographic and genetic analysis and management of pedigreed populations Robert Lacy, Jonathan Ballou and John Pollak Exploring causal pathways in demographic parameter variation: path analysis of mark–recapture … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

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