About the issue With topics ranging from phylogenetic analysis to statistics and distribution modelling, conservation, citizen science, surveys, genetic and demographic models to avian biology, our issue 3.2 should be of interest to most ecologists and evolutionary biologists. The issue also contains 5 free applications. About the cover This very high-resolution image of a beech-dominated forest in central Germany was taken by an unmanned aerial … Continue reading Issue 3.2
We have been very busy in the past couple of weeks and we have a whole range of recently accepted articles: A novel digital telemetry system for tracking wild animals: a field test for studying mate choice in a lekking tropical bird Dan Mennill, Stéphanie Doucet, Kara-Anne Ward, Dugan Maynard, Brian Otis and John Burt A general theory of multimetric indices and their properties Donald … Continue reading Recently accepted articles
Methods is pleased to announce that Nick Isaac has become the newest member of its editorial board, taking up the role of Associate Editor. Nick is a macroecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology interested in questions about the abundance, distributions, diversity and extinction risk of species: My research generally involves data that are structured in space, time and/or phylogenetically. I started out using … Continue reading New associate editor
It seems that from the number of submissions we receive at the journal, Methods in Ecology and Evolution has filled an important niche. As our editor-in-chief, Rob Freckleton, wrote to introduce our second volume: “those doing science need to be kept up to date on new approaches, and those developing new methods need a place to publish, as well as be supported in getting their … Continue reading Volume 3 Issue 1: Now online
Each year our editors select the best paper published in Methods by a young researcher. We are delighted to announce that this year’s winner of the Robert May Prize is Tyler Kuhn for his paper co-authored with Arne Ø. Mooers and Gavin H. Thomas A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies published in vol. 2.5 of the journal. Tyler and co-authors present a simple approach … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2011
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
By way of an introduction to this blog post, watch this! Back in March the Centre for Ecology and Evolution in London organised a meeting that brought together top researchers in macroevolution. The idea of the meeting was to highlight how advances in the study of macroevolution could be made by a closer integration with ecology, and the incoroporation of ecological ideas and ecological models. … Continue reading Watch the CEE meeting, Integrating ecology into macroevolutionary research
A round up of recent methods-relevant research published recently: it is ages since we did this, largely because the journal has been so busy with papers coming in and being published. Do send through links to any new methods papers to me or to the journal, or post a comment below. In Evolution, Werthelm & Sanderson look at how estimates of diversification rates are influenced … Continue reading Methods digest – update
We’re pleased to announce that Luke Harmon has become the newest member of the Methods in Ecology and Evolution editorial board, taking up the role of Associate Editor. Luke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho, whose research interests focus on developing new comparative methods and applying them to large phylogenetic datasets: Ongoing progress in building the tree of life provides a rare … Continue reading New addition to the editorial board
We launched Methods in Ecology in Evolution because we thought that there was a huge demand for methods papers: those doing science need to be kept up to date on new approaches, and those developing new methods need a place to publish, as well as be supported in getting their methods used. Our first volume has exceeded all expectations and we are really pleased to … Continue reading Volume 2 Issue 1: Now online
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