Methods in Ecology and Evolution@MethodsEcolEvol

MEE is a scientific journal promoting new methods in #ecology & #evolution, and facilitating their dissemination and uptake by the #research community.

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Our September issue is out!🚨 This month's cover features a green and golden bell frog (Litoria aurea), now listed as endangered 🐸 Read the full issue here 👇 buff.ly/GKuOtB4
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📖 Published📖 This perspective argues that reframing persistent challenges as interconnected problems of implementation, rather than aspiration, will help in overcoming a century of inertia in quantitative ecology education 📚️ 📈 🎒 🔎 buff.ly/EdhVNrV

A century of inertia in quantitative ecology education

Ecology has undergone a profound methodological transformation through the rapid growth in new technologies, data volume, statistical innovation and analytical sophistication. These developments c...

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📖 Published📖 This proposed framework is broadly applicable to bioacoustic localisation problems beyond echolocating bats, including avian tracking, passive acoustic monitoring and conservation-oriented sensing 🦅 🔊 🦇 🔎 buff.ly/RMGtogR

WAH‐i: Optimising microphone array geometry for customised localisation accuracy

Accurate spatial localisation of free-flying echolocating bats is foundational for resolving fine-scale flight and echolocation behaviour, prey interception and spatial decision-making in natural ...

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New blog post!🚨 These researchers wanted to answer the question 'How much of a vocalisation do we need to hear before we can recognise the individual?' in birds 🐦️ 🔊 🧪 Find out more 🌏️ 👇️ buff.ly/XhyDoHb

Identifying individual birds even when vocalisations run long

Post provided by Jonathan Gallego Londoño Most of us can recognise the voice of a friend or family member without seeing them. Sometimes, just a few words are enough to know who is speaking. But co…

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📖 Published📖 Mind(the)Plant provides a novel methodological framework for studying plant behaviour, signalling and phenotypic plasticity in ecological and evolutionary research 🌿 🌱 🧪 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/RtefLho
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📖 Published📖 geohabnet provides a quick, open-source, reproducible and generalizable approach to evaluating potential scenarios for the spread of a species through habitat landscapes 🌾 🗺️ 🦠 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/M3JBFQW

geohabnet: An R package for mapping habitat connectivity for biosecurity and conservation

Habitat connectivity is critical for the conservation of endangered and endemic species, and conversely, it can hinder efforts to contain the spread of harmful biological agents. Here, we introdu...

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Last chance to register for our MEE live on thursday!
Methods in Ecology and Evolution@MethodsEcolEvol
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Don't forget to register for our next MEE live! Antica Čulina will introduce the concept of Risk of Bias (RoB), and discusses why RoB assessment matters for producing reliable systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Find out more and register👇 buff.ly/8Hj79o9
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New blog post! 🚨 Read our new blog post 'From replicate detection to DNA concentration: What can ddPCR tell us about sedaDNA metabarcoding?' 🧬🐟️ 🧪 Find it here 🌏️ 👇️ buff.ly/q4r1ASq

From replicate detection to DNA concentration: What can ddPCR tell us about sedaDNA metabarcoding?

Post provided by Elena Baños Lara I am currently completing my PhD at the Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC) in Spain, where I use environmental and sedimentary ancient DNA to explor…

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📖 Published📖 These results show that the mean–variance scaling of the Taylor's power law controls patterns of intraspecific trait variability and should be taken into account when assessing trait diversity within species 🍃 🌻 📈 🔎 buff.ly/Nro2oI9

Handling mean–variance scaling in intraspecific trait variability and implications for trait–envi...

Trait-based ecology increasingly relies on measures of intraspecific trait variability to estimate how trait diversity within species varies across species and environmental gradients. Yet varianc...

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📖 Published📖 This study presents a reproducible, LiDAR-native framework for quantifying and comparing 3D crown morphology within and across species 🌲 🌳 🪾 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/7nZk4Y4
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📖 Published📖 This work underscores the synergy of human expertise and LLM capabilities, offering a robust, transparent pipeline for efficient, large-scale literature mining in ecology and conservation 📃 🖥️ 🌏️ 🔎 buff.ly/1tOvEVE
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📖 Published📖 A method to estimate actual infrastructure-induced mortality by integrating hierarchical sources of imperfect detection 🧪 📈 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/1CLbCww
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📖 Published📖 Embracing uncertainty in time: A Bayesian dynamic mixing model for isotopic diet estimation 🧪 ⌛️ 📈 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/jmby8hM

Embracing uncertainty in time: A Bayesian dynamic mixing model for isotopic diet estimation

Isotopic mixing models are powerful tools in ecology for estimating diets. Since their initial formulation, these models have evolved into two distinct branches: Bayesian mixing models and dynamic...

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This #PeerReviewWeek we want to send a big thank-you to everyone who reviewed for us over the past year 📚 Your time and expertise have been vital in helping us publish top-quality research 🌟 Names listed below: buff.ly/thMQTv8
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Journal of Animal Ecology@AnimalEcology
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🚨 we're recruiting another Senior Editor! 📝 find out more about the role and responsibilities here: buff.ly/3FBD8s3 ⏳️ the deadline for applications is 15 October 2026 📩 get in touch if you have any questions - admin@journalofanimalecology.org
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📖 Published 📖 ITSxRust: ITS Region extraction with partial-chain recovery and structured diagnostics for long-read amplicon sequencing 🍄 🧬 🧪 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/Tj4m5CO

ITSxRust: ITS Region extraction with partial‐chain recovery and structured diagnostics for long‐r...

Long-read amplicon sequencing is now routine for fungal metabarcoding, and locating the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) subregions within reads has become a throughput bottleneck. Existing extra...

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📖 Published📖 This study proposes adopting a formalized framework for method evaluation to improve transparency, facilitate informed decision-making, and enhance the comparability of methodological innovations across ecological studies 🧪 🌏️ 📈 🔎 buff.ly/0OofQJJ

Standardizing assessment of novel methods for ecological data collection

Methodological advances in ecology enable more efficient data collection, yet researchers need to clearly and consistently report the ways in which these methods benefit their own research within ...

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📖 Published📖 By combining bioacoustic foundation models with lightweight recurrent modelling, this approach provides a scalable, CPU-efficient tool for autonomous wildlife monitoring 🐦‍⬛ 🔊 🧪 🔎 buff.ly/pLEvjWn
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📖 Published📖 DeepZoo expands sampling capacity into environments previously constrained by cost and logistical barriers, supporting biodiversity and connectivity studies in the deep ocean 🦠 🌊 🐙 🔎 buff.ly/7ya6ymS
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Journal of Applied Ecology@JAppliedEcology
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We had a brilliant time attending the #SoilEcologyInPractice conference in Stirling this week! 🌱 We ran a workshop on 'How to achieve real-world impact' alongside Dina in 't Zandt & Tom Parker, and overall had a great time meeting lots of different soil ecologists 🤝
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📖 Published📖 This powerful tool allows researchers to derive ecologically meaningful inference from telemetry data while avoiding the pitfalls of overly complex models 🐋 📈 🧪 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/WGlXM8V

Flexible unimodal density estimation in hidden Markov models

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are powerful tools for modelling time-series data with underlying state structure. However, selecting appropriate parametric forms for the state-dependent distributions...

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