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
Issue 2.5 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is published today, and it’s a special 150 page bumper edition! The tempo of evolution heads the bill for this issue, with a strong phylogenetic duo in Measuring the temporal structure in serially sampled phylogenies by Rebecca R. Gray, Oliver G. Pybus and Marco Salemi, and A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies by Tyler S. Kuhn, Arne Ø. Mooers and Gavin H. Thomas. The … Continue reading Issue 2.5 out today
The publication of smatr 3 – an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines, by David Warton, Remko Duursma, Daniel Falster and Sara Taskinen, marks our twelfth published application paper – and, like the first eleven, it’s available for free. Methods in Ecology and Evolution’s applications are intended to provide a citable description of new methods and techniques in ecology and evolution, with the intention of promoting and maximising the uptake of … Continue reading Our twelfth application!
Here’s part 2 of our look at Methods in Ecology and Evolution’s most highly cited papers to date! Plant monitoring and modelling Comparison of seedling emergence and seed extraction techniques for estimating the composition of soil seed banks Jodi N. Price, Boyd R. Wright, Caroline L. Gross, Wal R. D. B. Whalley Experimentally testing the role of foundation species in forests: the Harvard Forest Hemlock Removal … Continue reading Top cited papers – part 2
ISI has only been indexing Methods in Ecology and Evolution for a short time, but some of our papers are already accumulating an impressive number of citations. Over the next few days we’ll be highlighting our most cited papers across a broad range of fields – just in case they’ve slipped you by. Statistical methods in ecology & evolution A protocol for data exploration to avoid common … Continue reading Top cited papers – part 1
The complexity of new methodologies can present a challenging barrier towards their uptake. Recognising this, Jeff Powell, author of Accounting for uncertainty in species delineation during the analysis of environmental DNA sequence data, has put together an excellent tutorial to guide people through the implementation of his objective, theory-based method for predicting species boundaries, which explicitly incorporates uncertainty in the classification system into biodiversity estimation. … Continue reading Biodiversity estimates from DNA sequences
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
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
We have two new papers online this week: In the first, David Watson looks at the problem of measuring diversity in highly diverse vertebrate communities. He shows that methods usually used for arthropod communities can be applied to monitoring bird populations. The analyses he performed answered important questions, such as: what effort is required to completely inventory a site? And, what is the least effort … Continue reading New papers – problems with matrix models & measuring species richness
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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