We have been very busy in the past couple of weeks and we have a whole range of recently accepted articles: A novel digital telemetry system for tracking wild animals: a field test for studying mate choice in a lekking tropical bird Dan Mennill, Stéphanie Doucet, Kara-Anne Ward, Dugan Maynard, Brian Otis and John Burt A general theory of multimetric indices and their properties Donald … Continue reading Recently accepted articles
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
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
A round up of recent methods-relevant research published recently: it is ages since we did this, largely because the journal has been so busy with papers coming in and being published. Do send through links to any new methods papers to me or to the journal, or post a comment below. In Evolution, Werthelm & Sanderson look at how estimates of diversification rates are influenced … Continue reading Methods digest – update
In celebration of the UN’s International Year of Forests, and the British Ecological Society’s Symposium on Forests and Global Change, the Journal of Applied Ecology and Methods in Ecology and Evolution have worked together to bring you two complementary virtual issues in these areas: one dealing with environmental management, and the other the most relevent new methodological developments in forest and global change research. Sample … Continue reading Virtual Issues on Forests and Global Change
We have been uploading videos and podcasts for a year now – these have proved really popular, both with authors and readers of the journal. I thought I would just take this opportunity to highlight some of the online content that is supporting articles from the first 3 issues: Our podcasts include:- An introduction to meta analysis Modelling range shifts The Primate Life-History Database Phenological … Continue reading A year of podcasts and videos
I hope that you have had an enjoyable and productive summer – this is just to update on a few bits of news from Methods in Ecology and Evolution. First, Issue 3 has appeared – there are articles on topics including: Evolutionary Ecology Stable Isotopes Population modelling & monitoring Parasitology Conservation & community ecology Second, the first year of the journal has been enormously succesful … Continue reading Methods in Ecology and Evolution – news
Here is the methods digest update for June 2010 – do let me know if there is anything that you think I should feature. In Oikos Novak & Wooton have a paper on using indices to quantify the effects of comeptition and Landau & Ryan present new ‘null model tests for presence-absence data’ (NMTPAs). A paper in Conservation Letters by Michael Kearney et al. evaluates species … Continue reading Methods digest – June 2010
Here is the latest methods digest:- In Evolution Marta Szulkin, Nicolas Bierne and Patrice David have perspective piece on measuring correlations between fitness and heterozygosity. Günter Wagner introduces a new approach to measuring fitness. Max Shpak and colleagues introduce an approach to coalescent modelling in populations that are structured and fluctuate seasonally. Richard Reynolds and colleagues look at the problem of measuring selection gradients. Valério Pillar … Continue reading Methods Digest – May 2010
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