Robert May Prize 2021: Winner Announced

We are delighted to announce David Wilkinson as the winner of the Robert May Prize 2021, awarded to the best paper by an early career researcher in the 2021 volume of Methods in Ecology and Evolution. In this interview, David shares insights on his winning article ‘Defining and evaluating predictions of joint species distribution models’. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors, whose articles you can read … Continue reading Robert May Prize 2021: Winner Announced

Chloe V. RobinsonApril 13, 2022May 3, 2022Leave a comment

Editor Profiles, Journal updates

New Associate Editor: Saras Windecker

Today, we are pleased to announce the latest new member of the Methods in Ecology and Evolution Associate Editor Board. Saras Windecker joins us from the University of Melbourne, Australia as an Applications Editor. You can find out a little more about her below.

Saras Windecker

“I’m a quantitative ecologist who started out as a wetland ecologist. I’m interested in developing and applying models for a range of applied and theoretical questions, spanning decomposition, species distributions, and more recently, public health forecasting. I’m interested in software development for scientists and thinking about how we develop literate programming skills and promote open science in ecology.” Continue reading “New Associate Editor: Saras Windecker”

India StephensonDecember 2, 2019Leave a comment

Methods papers, Online extras, Statistical methods

Uncertainty in biological monitoring : An interview with Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez

David Warton (University of New South Wales) interviews Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez (Cornell University) about her recent paper Uncertainty in biological monitoring: a framework for data collection and analysis to account for multiple sources of sampling bias. They discuss the main contributions of the paper, the effect false positives can have on occupancy estimates (when not accounted for) and her current position at Cornell. They finish off (in Spanish!) discussing the next step in her research agenda.