Methods in Ecology and Evolution

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

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We're looking for individuals & groups to join our first ever Policy Lab with the aim of answering this crucial question👇

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution | Dr René Steinmann : Decoding the footsteps of the African savanna Methods in Ecology and Evolution author René Steinmann chats to Harriet about his research article 'Decoding the footsteps of the African savanna: Classifying wildlife using seismic signals and machin

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We chat to Dr. René Steinmann about his recently published article 'Decoding the footsteps of the African savanna: Classifying wildlife using seismic signals and machine learning' 👣 🦒

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Animal tracking technologies and analytical methods may introduce biases in home range size estimates. Kale et al. assessed these potential biases using simulated tracking data and published home range size estimates from empirical animal tracking studies 🐢

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Pons et al. introduce , Reliance on Symbionts (HERS), a new metric for quantifying nutrient exchange in nutritional mutualisms 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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Lin et al., develop a very simple and economical passive sampler of airborne eDNA that can effectively detect considerable biodiversity in natural environments 🧬 💨

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Everyone is welcome! No need to be a coding whizz! If you can read a paper, click on links and answer some simple questions about data/code, you've got the skills we need.

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We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

🍄The Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions special feature is open for proposals!

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Illustration of the equivalence between restoration and conservation problems, assuming that all of the landscape elements will be degraded if no conservation options are taken, that is the budget β is null.

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Authors introduce GECOT, an open-source command line tool for solving budget-constrained multispecies landscape connectivity optimization problems when measuring landscape connectivity with the probability of connectivity indicator 👇

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Host Evaluation: Reliance on Symbionts: A new metric for quantifying nutrient exchange in nutritional mutualisms Mutualisms between autotrophs and heterotrophs that exchange nutrients are of pivotal importance in the ecology and evolution of life on Earth. However, investigation of holobiont trophic strategy...

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social describing and testing a new analytical method for estimating the trophic strategy of mixotrophs using stable isotope data and SIBER besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Spatial depiction of the resting behaviours that may occur throughout the adult stage of recently emerged Aedes aegypti females inside of an experimental house. The blue line represents a hypothetical sequence of behaviours/events a female mosquito may follow in the field, starting after emerging from the pupae in the plant pot in the bottom right. Resting behaviours are characterized using numbers (1–5), blood-feeding is represented by a blood-drop and oviposition by an image of Ae. aegypti eggs. For visual simplicity, the doors and windows of the house have been removed, and only the potential path of a female mosquito is displayed.

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In this review, authors discuss how a deeper knowledge of mosquito time-allocation, particularly resting periods, can enhance the effectiveness and deployment of classical vector control tools 🦟

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Here, authors present a flexible, non-phylogenetic model that captures key macroevolutionary processes—speciation, extinction and both passive and driven trait evolution—whilst accounting for physical and biological constraints 🌍 🧪 👇

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Check out our new research article 👉 Assessing predictive accuracy of species abundance models in dynamic systems 🌍 🧪

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Accurate quantification of thermal environments is vital for predicting climate change impacts. Here is a new method, integrating aerial thermography with field-deployed operative temperature models to generate fine-scale, spatiotemporally complete maps of operative temperature 🗺️ 🌡️

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Automated acoustic analysis is increasingly used in behavioural ecology. Here, authors investigated the impact of using different feature extraction and classification methods on the consistency of caller identity classification accuracy across 16 mammalian datasets🔉

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Twig ages provide a powerful tool to sensitively track variation in local deer impacts over time and across sites and habitats 🦌🌍 🧪 Find out more about how Waller extended the twig age method here 👇

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📣 Don’t forget to sign up to our first Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣

We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for:

”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts”

5th Aug @ 9am BST

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Check out our new research article 👉 Inference of ecological networks and possibilistic dynamics based on Boolean networks from observations and prior knowledge 🌍 🧪

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Passive infrared sensors, used in camera traps, are ineffective for detecting insects. This study proposes an alternative: ultra-lightweight convolutional neural networks running on low-powered hardware to detect insects in a continuous stream of captured images 📸 🌍 🧪

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Park et al. investigate the influence of spectral ranges on the performance of models estimating six tree functional traits: CO2 assimilation rate, specific leaf area, leaf water content and concentrations of foliar nitrogen, sugars and gallic acid 🌲 Read more here 👇

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Our recent review article synthesizes the current state of knowledge on soil fauna cryptic species identification, emphasizing specific molecular techniques as the most reliable and precise method currently available for detecting and unravelling cryptic diversity 🐛

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Utilizing the platform MoveApps, authors engaged 12 volunteer coders in a challenge to create tools for movement ecology, aimed at animal conservation. Read about their findings and insights here 🌍 🧪 👇

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In our new practical tools article, Philip and Roberts present a novel artificial nestbox, the BeeBox, designed to support bumblebee nesting and enhance research, conservation and public engagement 🐝 📦

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British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2025, 15-18 December, Edinburgh. Abstract submission and early bird registration are now open.

✨New science, new ideas, new friends. 

Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here!  Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.

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Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 Find the article here 👇

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Join us for our first Quantifying Ecology webinar:

”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts”

With Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social in collab with ( @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social). 🐟📈

5th Aug at 9am BST.

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