Estimating seed predation rates

Seed predation plays an important role in global plant demography. In this video, Adam Davis, of the University of Illinois, demonstrates how field experiments and statistical models can can enable the extrapolation of long-term seed predation rates from short-term data. A full treatment of this can be found in the paper Temporal scaling of episodic point estimates of seed predation to long-term predation rates, recently … Continue reading Estimating seed predation rates

A year of podcasts and videos

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

Four new papers published in January

Four new papers have been published online this month. These cover a range of topics including ecological modelling, measuring diversity, detecting range shifts and physiological ecology. In the first paper, Gideon Gal and William Anderson outline a new method for detecting regime shift in ecosystems.  Regime shifts occur when the state of an ecosystem changes markedly and rapidly, usually with a dramatic shift in species … Continue reading Four new papers published in January

Methods Digest – December 2009

A round-up of methods papers published in the last month. If there are any papers that you think should be featured, email me or leave a comment and I will add them. Liam Revell has a paper in Evolution on size correction and principal components analysis of phylogenetic comparative data. Olivier Gimenez and colleagues also have a paper in the same issue on generating fitness … Continue reading Methods Digest – December 2009