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

Methods blogging

Here’s a nice piece by Karthik Ram, of Inundata, about RNCEP, an application whose introduction we recently published on Early View. RNCEP is a package of open-source R functions that make it easy to access and use two free, long-term, high-quality atmospheric data sets with global coverage, and comes highly recommended for anyone interested in climate data and questions related to global change! Related An introduction to RNCEP RNCEP … Continue reading Methods blogging

Heating up the forest

In our latest video Shannon Pellini demonstrates experimental equipment designed to simulate the effects of warmer air temperatures on forest ecosystems – and, particuarly, on arthropod communities. You can read a full account of their experimental methods, and results from two contemporaneous trials at Harvard Forest and Duke Forest, in their recently published paper, Heating up the forest: open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities … Continue reading Heating up the forest

Methods in Biogeography

The International Biogeography Society has just held their 5th meeting in Crete and I thought I would pick some highlights that are methods relevant.  This meeting brings together a range of researchers from the intersection of ecology, evolutionary biology, geography, geology and systematics: a truly diverse grouping. Biogeography is, in essence concerned with the distributions of species and how these change with time. It is … Continue reading Methods in Biogeography