Methods in Ecology and Evolution

New podcast episode! 🚨

In this podcast, Sebastian Hoefer talks us about his paper ‘Sensors versus surveyors: Comparing passive acoustic monitoring, camera trapping and observer-based monitoring for terrestrial mammals’.

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🌟 We've updated our aims and scope, now live and ready to read on our website! ➡️ buff.ly/2W4T8oR

🚨 Our February issue is also now live. With a fantastic cover image provided by Vincent Porcher, from this recently published paper 📖 buff.ly/e3kfQ4S

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This review provides an overview of studies to date using long-read sequencing platforms for biodiversity analyses of eukaryotes, from eDNA and community metabarcoding, shotgun sequencing, and DNA barcoding🧪 🧬 🌍

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Interested in being an Associate Editor on any of the BES journals? Apply now! 👇

Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.

The first issue of 2026 is now out! 🚨

This issue contains our new special feature 'Conservation, ecology and artificial intelligence: Advances and symbiotic solutions'. 🌍 🧪

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Long-read sequencing can revolutionise the way we monitor #biodiversity.

A comprehensive guide for using #ONT & #PacBio for analysis of biodiversity through #eDNA, #metabarcoding, metagenomics

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(De)composing sociality: Disentangling individual-specific from dyad-specific propensities to interact

This approach allows us to address the link between variation in sociality characteristics and more, both within and across species🌍 🦒 🔎

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Detecting and classifying animal calls from audio data using animal2vec Post provided by Julian Schäfer-Zimmermann An introduction for people lacking a machine-learning background We provide a non-technical explanation of the animal2vec framework, including its capabil…

Check out our new blog post!🚨

Authors provide an overview of the animal2vec framework, including its capabilities and potential for usage in animal behavior, ecology, and conservation research 🔊 🌍 🧪

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Cover Picture and Issue Information This image is an illustrative rendering of a 3D model of a bat (Myotis daubentonii) created using 3D photogrammetry. It shows that we can ‘freeze’ the pose of a live animal; turning it into a mesh mo...

Our recent @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social paper on 3D photogrammetry and hearing is featured on the cover of the january issue.

The work focuses on how 3D mesh models of ear morphology can be used to simulate the directionality hearing.

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Seeing the Hearing: How 3D Photogrammetry Reveals Directional Hearing in Animals Post provided by Karsten Vesterholm I’m a Postdoc in the Sound and Behaviour research group at the Department of Biology at the University of Southern Denmark, where I work in the Bat Echolocation …

New blog post! 🚨

Find out more about how @kvester.bsky.social and their team are using 3D photogrammetry to see how animals hear 🦇 👂

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A dynamic multi-scale occupancy model to estimate trends in habitat use in spatially and temporally complex systems

This modelling framework offers a tool for disentangling the multi-scale processes that drive species distributions across time🖥️ 🌍 🌱

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Studying social transmission using STbayes Post provided by Michael Chimento. When studying animal culture, it’s important to establish whether novel behaviours or information have spread through social contact, or are rather innovated or p…

New blog post!!🚨

Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪

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Less than a month to apply to join the BES editorial board as an Associate editor!🌳🌍 📖

If you're interested in contributing to any of the BES journals, check out the link below 👇

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An elementary guide to quantum computing, introducing core concepts such as qubits, superposition, entanglement and quantum advantage to give ecologists the foundations needed to appreciate its relevance and potential🖥️ 📏 🌀

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This paper presents a conceptual framework for natural capital accounting (NCA), adapting principles from financial accounting to support transparent reporting on business interactions with nature🌍 💸 💼

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The British Ecological Society has curated this Virtual Issue to highlight research that is directly relevant to the work of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)👇

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CISO, a deep learning-based method for species distribution modelling Conditioned on Incomplete Species Observations 🖥️ 🦌 🌍

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Inferring state-dependent diversification rates using approximate Bayesian computation 🖥️ 🌀 🌍 👇

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ESPERDYNE: A dual‐band heterodyne monitor and ultrasound recorder for bioacoustic field surveys Background. Ultrasonic monitoring is essential for ecological studies of bats and other animals, yet high-performance field devices remain prohibitively expensive and inaccessible—particularly in ...

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Introducing Esperdyne, an open-source, dual-channel ultrasound monitoring and recording system for bioacoustic field surveys🖥️ 🌍 🦇

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🤩We’re excited to announce our winner of Capturing Ecology🤩

🐊Zeke Rowe, @zekerowe.bsky.social, with their photo 'Wouldn't hurt a fly'🪰

Taken in Panama, the image shows an American crocodile fixing the camera with its golden eyes, utterly unmoved as blood-sucking horse flies feed on its snout.

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Authors developed a state-space model that simultaneously accounts for the acoustic group location and time-varying acoustic group size using acoustic data from multiple hydrophones 🔊🐟

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evsBat: An automated toolkit for tracking and quantifying rapid movement of nocturnal animals using event cameras 🦇 🌍🧪 Read the full article here 👇

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Check out this new research article 👉 Early warning signal for river-borne diseases with almost no data 🛶 🦠 Read more 👇

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Authors have developed the Wildlife Sperm Index (WSI), a standardized scoring system that integrates key sperm quality metrics—such as motility, viability and DNA integrity—into a weighted composite score 🌍 🧪 Read here👇

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NEW EDITORIAL! 💡

Using data to construct tripartite networks & models 📊, we found that editorial diversification helps make peer review more inclusive & better aligned with the global distribution of ecological research 🌐

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A capture–recapture framework for combining biologging data with physical captures to decompose and estimate demographic rates: Simulations across life cycles and application to polar bears 🐻‍❄️ 🧊

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animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics

A new transformative bioacoustic tool tailored for sparse and unbalanced bioacoustic data🦉

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Plant pathogen profiling with the EpiPvr package 🦠🧪

These findings highlight the utility of the EpiPvr framework for predicting the outcome of pathogen introductions and for guiding targeted disease management strategies

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Can hierarchical modelling of co-occurrence data provide accurate inference into species interactions?

This review finds pitfalls in the use of hierarchical models applied to co-occurrence data in understanding species interactions🧪 🌍

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