The International Biogeography Society has just held their 5th meeting in Crete and I thought I would pick some highlights that are methods relevant. This meeting brings together a range of researchers from the intersection of ecology, evolutionary biology, geography, geology and systematics: a truly diverse grouping. Biogeography is, in essence concerned with the distributions of species and how these change with time. It is … Continue reading Methods in Biogeography
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
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
The first thing to point out this month is that issue 1 of the journal is now online here. To accompany the issue we have a podcast and a videocast. There is also now a journal correspondence site to host feedback and discussion of published papers, more on this soon. The one day journal launch symposium is accepting bookings, with a good response so far. However … Continue reading Methods Digest – March 2010
This monthly digest is a bit late as we have been busy writing an editorial and finalizing the running order for the first issue of the journal. That should be online in a couple of weeks. Pre-publication versions of papers are here, whilst an up-to-date list of accepted papers is here. The very latest updates are also available via Twitter and Facebook. In Ecology Letters, … Continue reading Methods Digest – February 2010
A belated happy new year! Here is this month’s round-up of methods papers published in the last month. Do let me know if there are any papers that I have missed that could be featured. In Systematic Biology Brian O’Meara presents new heuristics for joint species delimitation and tree inference. A new comparative method for logistic regression controlling for phylogeny is outlined by Ives & … Continue reading Methods Digest – January 2010
A round-up of methods papers published in the last month. If there are any papers that you think should be featured, email me or leave a comment and I will add them. Liam Revell has a paper in Evolution on size correction and principal components analysis of phylogenetic comparative data. Olivier Gimenez and colleagues also have a paper in the same issue on generating fitness … Continue reading Methods Digest – December 2009
Phylogenetic comparative methods are always an area of hot discussion and lots of methodological development. So I thought it would be useful to highlight some recent papers that have developed new methods in the past year. Please email me or leave a comment if there is anything I have omitted or if something new comes out. Thomas Hansen and colleagues have introduced a new method … Continue reading Phylogenetic comparative methods
This is the new blog for the new Methods in Ecology and Evolution journal from the British Ecological Society and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This blog will highlight content in the journal, new research in ecological and evolutionary methods, as well as provide a sounding board for developments in the journal and publishing. Updates will be provided by members of the editorial team. One of the … Continue reading Welcome to methods.blog & see you at INTECOL
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