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Journal updates, Methods papers

Issue 6.3

Issue 6.3 is now online!

The March issue of Methods is now online!

We have three freely available Applications articles in this issue. Anyone can access these with no subscription required and no charge to download.

– TR8: This R package was built to provide plant scientists with a simple tool for retrieving plant functional traits from freely accessible online traitbases.

– StereoMorph: A new R package for the rapid and accurate collection of 3D landmarks and curves using two standard digital cameras.

– MotionMeerkat: A new standalone program that identifies motion events from a video stream. This tool reduces the time needed to review videos and accommodates a variety of inputs.

This month we have a total of FIVE Open Access articles. That makes eight articles in this issue of Methods in Ecology and Evolution that you can read for free!

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General, Journal updates, Meetings

Our 5th Anniversary Symposium

Charles Darwin House, London, UK: 10:00 – 18:00 (GMT) Alberta Room, Dining Centre, University of Calgary, Canada: 08:30 – 17:00 (MST) 22 April 2015 Methods in Ecology and Evolution, the British Ecological Society’s youngest journal, turns five this year. To celebrate we will be holding a joint Symposium – beginning in the UK and concluding in Canada. We will be hearing what’s in store for … Continue reading Our 5th Anniversary Symposium

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Journal updates, Methods papers

Issue 6.2

Issue 6.2 is now online! The February issue of Methods is now online! This month we have two applications articles. Both are free to access, no subscription required. – NLMpy: A PYTHON software package for the creation of neutral landscape models (there are also two videos associated to this paper on our Youtube channel) – BAT – an R package for the measurement and estimation of … Continue reading Issue 6.2

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Journal updates, Methods papers

Issue 6.1

Issue 6.1 is now online! Our first issue of 2015 is now online! This month we include one freely available Applications article: – A biochemical approach for identifying plastics exposure in live wildlife We also have two wonderful Open Access papers, ‘Evaluation and management implications of uncertainty in a multispecies size-structured model of population and community responses to fishing‘ by Robert B. Thorpe, Will J. … Continue reading Issue 6.1

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Conservation and management, Evolution, Journal updates, Methods papers, Online extras, Phylogenetic analysis, Statistical methods

Volume 3 Issue 1: Now online

It seems that from the number of submissions we receive at the journal, Methods in Ecology and Evolution has filled an important niche. As our editor-in-chief, Rob Freckleton, wrote to introduce our second volume: “those doing science need to be kept up to date on new approaches, and those developing new methods need a place to publish, as well as be supported in getting their … Continue reading Volume 3 Issue 1: Now online

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Journal updates

2011 top cited papers – part 3

Welcome to part 3 of our review of the most highly cited papers published by Methods in Ecology and Evolution in 2011. In case you missed them, here are part 1 and part 2 of this series. Population monitoring and management Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology Douglas G. Barron, Jeffrey D. Brawn and Patrick J. Weatherhead The effects of geolocator drag … Continue reading 2011 top cited papers – part 3

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Journal updates, Robert May Prize

Robert May Prize 2011

Each year our editors select the best paper published in Methods by a young researcher. We are delighted to announce that this year’s winner of the Robert May Prize is Tyler Kuhn for his paper co-authored with Arne Ø. Mooers and Gavin H. Thomas A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies published in vol. 2.5 of the journal. Tyler and co-authors present a simple approach … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2011

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Journal updates

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

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Journal updates, Online extras

Evolution MegaLab

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

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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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