Another week, another set of manuscripts accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: Functional rarefaction for species abundance data Carlo Ricotta, Sandrine Pavoine, Giovanni Bacaro and Alicia Acosta Sampling period, size, and duration influences measures of bat species richness from acoustic surveys Samuel Skalak, Richard Sherwin and R. Brigham Barcoding’s next top model: an evaluation of nucleotide substitution models for specimen identification Rupert Collins, Laura Boykin, Robert Cruickshank and Karen Armstrong Asessing individual heterogeneity using model selection criteria: How many mixture … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Our latest round of accepted articles include: A comparative study of ecological specialization estimators Timothée Poisot, Elsa Canard, Nicolas Mouquet and Michael Hochberg An objective, niche-based approach to indicator species selection Simon Butler, Robert Freckleton, Anna Renwick and Ken Norris Selecting pseudo-absences for species distribution models: how, where and how many? Morgane Barbet-Massin, Frédéric Jiguet, Cécile Albert and Wilfried Thuiller Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation Seth Wenger and Julian Olden Cascade Multivariate Regression Tree: a novel approach for modelling nested explanatory … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Our most recently accepted articles include: phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things) Liam J. Revell Individual variation in response to intraspecific competition: problems with inference from growth variation measures Sigurd Einum, Torbjørn Forseth and Anders Finstad Testing the time-for-speciation effect in the assembly of regional biotas Daniel Rabosky An alternative SADIE local clustering index for studying spatial patterns Baohua Li, Larry Madden and Xiangming Xu Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Articles we’ve recently accepted for publication include: Heterogeneous patterns of availability for detection during visual surveys: spatiotemporal variation in sea turtle dive-surfacing behaviour on a feeding ground Jordan Thomson, Andrew Cooper, Derek Burkholder, Michael Heithaus and Lawrence Dill Breaking the sticks: a hierarchical change-point model for estimating ontogenetic shifts with stable isotope data Matthieu Authier, Céline Martin, Aurore Ponchon, Stéphanie Steelandt, Ilham Bentaleb and Christophe Guinet State-space framework for estimating measurement error from double-tagging telemetry experiments Arliss Winship, Salvador Jorgensen, Scott Shaffer, Ian Jonsen, Patrick Robinson, Daniel Costa and Barbara Block Quantifying individual variation in reaction norms: … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Four more papers have been recently accepted for publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: REDDcalculator.com: a web-based decision-support tool for implementing Indonesia’s forest moratorium Lian Pin Koh, Holly Gibbs, Peter Potapov, Matthew Hansen PMx: software package for demographic and genetic analysis and management of pedigreed populations Robert Lacy, Jonathan Ballou and John Pollak Exploring causal pathways in demographic parameter variation: path analysis of mark–recapture … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Articles recently accepted by the Methods editorial board include: A novel molecular approach for rapid assessment of soil nematode assemblages – variation, validation and potential applications Suzanne Donn, Roy Neilson, Bryan Griffiths and Tim Daniell Reconstructing historical snow depth surfaces to evaluate changes in critical demographic rates and habitat components of snow-dependent and snow-restricted species Jeffrey Manning and Edward Garton Comparative interpretation of count, presence–absence … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

Four more new methodological papers will be making an appearance on Early View over the coming weeks: Bias in estimation of adult survival and asymptotic population growth rate caused by undetected capture heterogeneity by David Fletcher, Jean-Dominique Lebreton, Lucile Marescot, Michael Schaub, Olivier Gimenez, Steve Dawson and Liz Slooten Tracking migratory songbirds: accuracy of light-level loggers (geolocators) in forest habitats by Adam Fudickar, Martin Wikelski … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

We’re due to publish five more new methods papers over the coming weeks: On thinning of chains in MCMC William Link and Mitchell Eaton MOTMOT: models of trait macroevolution on trees Gavin Thomas and Robert Freckleton TempNet: a method to display statistical parsimony networks for heterochronous DNA sequence data Stefan Prost and Christian Anderson Distance weighting avoids erroneous scale effects in species-habitat models Birgit Aue, … Continue reading Recently accepted articles

As you can see, there’s a huge variety across the articles we’ve most recently accepted for publication: Guidelines for estimating repeatability Matthew Wolak, Daphne Fairbairn and Yale Paulsen Reservations about preservations: storage methods affect δ13C signatures differently even in closely related soil fauna Eveline Krab, Richard Van Logtestijn, Hans Cornelissen and Matty Berg How safe is mist netting? evaluating the risk of injury and mortality … Continue reading Newly accepted articles

Following on from our previous updates, the latest round of manuscripts accepted by the Methods in Ecology and Evolution board include: Randomization tests for quantifying species importance to ecosystem function by Nicholas Gotelli, Werner Ulrich and Fernando Maestre Comparison of seed phenolic extraction and assay methods by Kristen Granger, Robert Gallagher, E. Fuerst and J. Alldredge Temporal scaling of episodic point estimates of seed predation … Continue reading Newly accepted articles