Tag: Ecology

Journal Issues

Our November issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats Passive acoustic monitoring of bats is used in a growing number of studies in applied and basic research. Despite the publication of good-practice recommendations, several unsettled debates persist about the … Continue reading Our November issue is out now!

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Statistical methods

Modelling approaches in meta-analysis: from sandwich estimators to correlated hierarchical models

Post provided by Coralie Williams Conducting a meta-analysis involves a series of decisions, from choosing what data to extract to selecting the outcome measure. But then comes the model specification – how should it be formulated? At its simplest, a meta-analysis can be expressed as a simple linear regression model where the outcome is an effect size (yi), which is a quantitative measure derived from … Continue reading Modelling approaches in meta-analysis: from sandwich estimators to correlated hierarchical models

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Field Methods

Listening to trees: uncovering the seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway

Post provided by Josefine Umlauft. We are a group of geophysicists, mathematicians, and ecologists who normally speak quite different scientific languages. This project brought us together through a shared curiosity: could the instruments and analytical tools originally developed for studying earthquakes also help us understand how trees move in the wind? The result, The Seismic Fingerprint of Wind-Induced Tree Sway, grew out of conversations between … Continue reading Listening to trees: uncovering the seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway

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Field Methods, Practical Tools

Peering through the shell: tracking stress with heartbeats

Post provided by Lima F. P.; Pereira F. L.; Loureiro B.; Humet M.; Seabra R. How can we tell when an animal is stressed, long before it dies? For marine invertebrates like mussels, limpets, oysters, or crabs, one of the clearest signals comes from their hearts. Heart rate can vary in response to changes in the environment (such as temperature or oxygen), offering a non-invasive … Continue reading Peering through the shell: tracking stress with heartbeats

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Journal Issues

Our October issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Advancing causal inference in ecology: Pathways for biodiversity change detection and attribution Here, authors address key challenges of biodiversity change detection and conservative causal attribution and propose solutions to overcome barriers in (1) biodiversity and driver data characteristics, (2) detection of change within both data types and (3) linking driver and biodiversity … Continue reading Our October issue is out now!

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Practical Tools

Making heatwaves in the wild: lessons from extreme fieldwork

Post provided by Pieter Arnold, Xuemeng Mu, James King We are a team of ecologists in Australia with keen interest in how plants and ecosystems will respond to climate change. Conducting research on the effects of forecasted climate change, and particularly extreme events like heatwaves, is extremely challenging to do in the field. We had to first convince ourselves that it would be possible to … Continue reading Making heatwaves in the wild: lessons from extreme fieldwork

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Ecology

10,000 Arthropods in a Hectare: What We Found Crawling, Flying, and Hiding in Panama’s Rainforest

Post provided by Daniel Souto-Vilarós. I’m a molecular ecologist who currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah, with a long-standing obsession with biodiversity. While much of my work has focused on plant-pollinator interactions, this project took me down a very different path: into the leaf litter, soil, and night sky of a tropical forest to try and find out how many … Continue reading 10,000 Arthropods in a Hectare: What We Found Crawling, Flying, and Hiding in Panama’s Rainforest

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Ecology

What’s That Sound? A New Way to Explore Freshwater Soundscapes

Post provided by Katie Turlington I’m Katie Turlington, a soundscape ecologist and PhD candidate at the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University. My research explores how we can use sound to monitor freshwater ecosystems, which are incredibly diverse but often under-surveyed. I’ve spent the last few years working on rivers in South-East Queensland, trying to make sense of the many sounds these systems produce—from insect stridulations … Continue reading What’s That Sound? A New Way to Explore Freshwater Soundscapes

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Journal Issues

Our September issue is out now!

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured DeepDiveR—A software for deep learning estimation of palaeodiversity from fossil occurrences The incompleteness of the fossil record presents a barrier to estimating changes in biodiversity which standard statistical methods struggle to account for. Here authors present DeepDiveR, an R package … Continue reading Our September issue is out now!

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Ecology, Practical Tools

Smart cameras in the wild: A centralised solar-powered Raspberry Pi system for automated animal observation and environmental monitoring

Post provided by Marçal Pou-Rossell Many studies of animal behaviour – especially parental care – rely on short, fragmented observations. Whether due to battery limitations, human resources, or remote field conditions, collecting continuous data throughout an entire reproductive cycle is often just not feasible. As a result, key behaviours can go undocumented, and our understanding of how animals make decisions across time remains incomplete. We … Continue reading Smart cameras in the wild: A centralised solar-powered Raspberry Pi system for automated animal observation and environmental monitoring

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