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 components in capture-recapture models?
  Sarah Cubaynes, Christian Lavergne, Eric Marboutin and Olivier Gimenez

We’ve also accepted abc: an R package for Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC), by Katalin Csilléry, Olivier Francois and Michael Blum, which will join our collection of free application papers.

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 sets
  Marie-Hélène Ouellette, Pierre Legendre and Daniel Borcard

Don’t forget that you can see all Methods papers currently in press on the journal website.

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

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: How study design affects the accuracy, precision and power of random regression models
  Martijn van de Pol
  
• Site-occupancy modelling as a novel framework for assessing test sensitivity and estimating wildlife disease prevalence from imperfect diagnostic tests
  Shelly Lachish, Arjun Gopalaswamy, Sarah Knowles and Ben Sheldon
• And more on the Methods in Ecology and Evolution website.

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 data
  Olivier Gimenez, Tycho Anker-Nilssen and Vladimir Grosbois
• Using imaging spectroscopy to estimate integrated measures of foliage nutritional quality
  Kara Youngentob, Luigi Renzullo, Alex Held, Xiuping Jia, David Lindenmayer and William Foley

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 and point methods for species distribution models
  Geert Aarts, John Fieberg and Jason Matthiopoulos
• Modelling data from different sites, times or studies: weighted vs. unweighted regression
  David Fletcher and Philip Dixon
• Directed terminal restriction analysis tool (DRAT): an aid to enzyme selection for directed terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphisms
  David Roberts, Pietà Schofield, Suzanne Donn and Tim Daniell
• RNCEP: global weather and climate data at your fingertips
  Michael Kemp, E. van Loon, Judy Shamoun-Baranes and Willem Bouten

Don’t forget that you can keep track of all articles currently in press on the Methods website.

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 and Jesko Partecke
• Variation in postsampling treatment of avian blood affects ecophysiological interpretations
  by Bethany Hoye
• CliMond: global high-resolution historical and future scenario climate surfaces for bioclimatic modelling
  by Darren Kriticos, Bruce Webber, Agathe Leriche, Noboru Ota, Ian Macadam, Janice Bathols and John Scott

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, Klemens Ekschmitt, Stefan Hotes and Volkmar Wolters
• TrapCam: an inexpensive camera system for studying deep-water animals
  Brett Favaro, Corinna Lichota, Isabelle Côté and Stefanie Duff
• Distance-based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects
  David Warton, Stephen Wright and Yi Wang

We’re particuarly excited about the TrapCam paper, as it’s accompanied by a fantastic video demonstration of the  setup, and some bewitching shots recovered from the apparatus in action. It’ll be available on our YouTube channel as soon as the paper is published on Early View.

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 to birds
  Erica Spotswood, Kari Roesch Goodman, Jay Carlisle, Renee Cormier, Diana Humple, Josee Rousseau, Susan Guers and Gina Barton
• Accounting for uncertainty in species delineation during the analysis of environmental DNA sequence data
  Jeff Powell
• Applying additive modelling and gradient boosting to assess the effects of watershed and reach characteristics on riverine assemblages
  Kelly Maloney, Matthias Schmid and Donald Weller

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 to long-term predation rates
  by Adam Davis, Daniel Daedlow, Brian Schutte and Paula Westerman
• Where are my quadrats? Positional accuracy in fieldwork
  by Mike E. Dodd

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