Tag: Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Robert May Prize

Peter Dietrich: Advancing plant biomass measurements: Integrating smartphone-based 3D scanning techniques for enhanced ecosystem monitoring

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Peter Dietrich’s article ‘Advancing plant biomass measurements: Integrating smartphone-based 3D scanning techniques for enhanced ecosystem monitoring‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About the paper What … Continue reading Peter Dietrich: Advancing plant biomass measurements: Integrating smartphone-based 3D scanning techniques for enhanced ecosystem monitoring

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Robert May Prize

Maia Austen: A computational framework to characterize and compare the tonal repertoires of toothed whales

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Maia Austen’s article ‘A computational framework to characterize and compare the tonal repertoires of toothed whales‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About the paper  … Continue reading Maia Austen: A computational framework to characterize and compare the tonal repertoires of toothed whales

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Robert May Prize

Xiaotian Zheng: Spatial-statistical downscaling with uncertainty quantification in biodiversity modelling

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Xiaotian Zheng’s article ‘Spatial-statistical downscaling with uncertainty quantification in biodiversity modelling‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About the paper  What is your shortlisted paper about, and … Continue reading Xiaotian Zheng: Spatial-statistical downscaling with uncertainty quantification in biodiversity modelling

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Robert May Prize

Nina Schiettekatte: habtools: An R package to calculate 3D metrics for surfaces and objects

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Nina Schiettekatte’s article ‘habtools: An R package to calculate 3D metrics for surfaces and objects‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About the paper What is … Continue reading Nina Schiettekatte: habtools: An R package to calculate 3D metrics for surfaces and objects

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Robert May Prize

Jordan Martin: Covariance reaction norms: A flexible method for estimating complex environmental effects on trait (co)variances

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Jordan Martin’s article ‘Covariance reaction norms: A flexible method for estimating complex environmental effects on trait (co)variances‘ is one of those shortlisted for … Continue reading Jordan Martin: Covariance reaction norms: A flexible method for estimating complex environmental effects on trait (co)variances

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Robert May Prize

Kal Backman: Human inspired deep learning to locate and classify terrestrial and arboreal animals in thermal drone surveys

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Kal Backman’s article ‘Human inspired deep learning to locate and classify terrestrial and arboreal animals in thermal drone surveys‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About … Continue reading Kal Backman: Human inspired deep learning to locate and classify terrestrial and arboreal animals in thermal drone surveys

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Robert May Prize

Jenna Kline: Studying collective animal behaviour with drones and computer vision

Throughout March, we are featuring articles shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May Prize. The Robert May Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution written by an early career author. Jenna Kline’s article ‘Studying collective animal behaviour with drones and computer vision‘ is one of those shortlisted for the award. About the paper What is your shortlisted paper … Continue reading Jenna Kline: Studying collective animal behaviour with drones and computer vision

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Conservation and management, Ecology

As above, so below: a perspective into the application of land-forest monitoring methods for the assessment of marine animal forests

Post provided by Torcuato Pulido Mantas I am a postdoctoral researcher in Marine Biology and Ecology at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (DiSVA), Polytechnic University of Marche, where I work in the Zoology Lab (link: https://www.instagram.com/zoomardisva/). We focus on understanding how climate change affects benthic marine organisms, developing new methods for marine environmental monitoring, and promoting effective conservation strategies for vulnerable habitats and … Continue reading As above, so below: a perspective into the application of land-forest monitoring methods for the assessment of marine animal forests

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Methods papers

Reading the patterns: vegetation patterns reveal the fragility of dryland sites

Post provided by Benoît Pichon When I first started working on dryland ecosystems in my PhD, I didn’t expect to spend quite so much time staring at black-and-white aerial photographs. Yet these simple images—pixels of vegetation scattered across a matrix of white bare soil pixels—hold fingerprints of the resilience of drylands. In this work, we developed an approach to learn about dryland resilience from vegetation … Continue reading Reading the patterns: vegetation patterns reveal the fragility of dryland sites

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Methods papers

From Trowels to TensorFlow: Bridging the Gap Between Ancient Past and Digital Future

Post provided by Margot Belot If you had asked me a few years ago what I would be doing today, I probably would have told you I’d be digging up ancient artefacts somewhere or cataloguing them in a museum. My background is in Archaeology and Art History; for a long time, my world revolved around the tactile nature of physical objects, carefully handling, describing, and … Continue reading From Trowels to TensorFlow: Bridging the Gap Between Ancient Past and Digital Future

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