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
In a paper published online today in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Malcolm Nicoll and Ken Norris look at a controversial issue, that of detecting effects of predators on bird populations. This is controversial because some predators, especially raptors, were formerly rather scarce, but have become more abundant in recent years – in the case of raptors because organochloride chemicals are not used any more. … Continue reading Detecting effects of predators on prey: the method matters
Issue 2 of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is now online, the table of contents is here. In this issue there are 14 new papers on: Statistical methods Monitoring & modelling plant populations Telemetry Entomology Modelling wildlife disease Building databases of life-history traits GIS methods One innovation is that we now have a correspondence site: http://www.respond2articles.com/mee/ From here you can send in correspondence about papers, … Continue reading Issue 2 is now online
Two new papers on statistical methods are now available on “Early View”. The first is a paper by Holger Schielzeth on regression methods. In this paper Holger tries to raise awareness of the importance of standardizing and centring input variables before analysis in order to improve the interpretability of coefficients. There are various advantages to doing this, for example in obtaining the standard errors for … Continue reading New papers – regression modelling and one-sided hypothesis testing
Four new papers have been published online this month. These cover a range of topics including ecological modelling, measuring diversity, detecting range shifts and physiological ecology. In the first paper, Gideon Gal and William Anderson outline a new method for detecting regime shift in ecosystems. Regime shifts occur when the state of an ecosystem changes markedly and rapidly, usually with a dramatic shift in species … Continue reading Four new papers published in January
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
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
The first paper accepted in Methods in Ecology & Evolution is now available online! This paper is by Alain Zuur, Elena Ieno and Chris Elphick – Alain is well known in the ecological and R community for his books Analysing Ecological Data, Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R and A Beginner’s Guide to R and for the courses he runs on statistics. … Continue reading First paper now online!
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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