Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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 May issue is now out! 🦋

This issue contains the special feature 'Emerging Methods in Business and Biodiversity'. Read the special feature, and all the papers in the issue here 👇

https://t.co/HVX8LbukL4

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📖 Published📖

Addressing false negatives and positives in eDNA studies🌍 🧪 🧬

This approach not only encourages scientific advancement but also enables
sound ecological inference 👇️

https://t.co/nKu0C1BgFm

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📖 Published📖

Discovering data-driven microbial growth models with symbolic regression

Authors found that balancing data fit, parsimony and biological relevance favoured both the simplest, linear approximation and models🖥️ 🌍

🔎 https://t.co/HjVzkuAsi5

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📖Published📖

Authors developed a state–space model that predicts continuous changes in mass for animals that engage in primarily flapping flight, where we can measure wingbeat frequency and foraging behaviour 🪽

Read here👇
https://t.co/Vhd3gixv5t

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New blog post! 🚨

Read the story behind the paper 'From video to behaviour: An LSTM-based approach for automated nest behaviour recognition in the wild' 🪺

https://t.co/Msly5o3c4d

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P.S This is my (Harriet, Assistant Editor at MEE) first paper as an author! 🎉If you’re happy to share, drop a link to your first paper below, I’d love to see them! (6)

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We recently published a paper looking at archiving of code and data at the BES, giving recommendations for improvements.

https://t.co/AsL3bhdIEW

This paper has 138 authors from 29 countries! 🌍

Read below to find out how this paper came to be👇 (1)

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The paper makes recommendations for how authors, the BES and other journals/institutions can improve the archiving of code and data, helping on the road to making science reproducible! (5)

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📖Published📖

Check out our newly published research article 'Statistical analyses of ecological multinomial time series to identify environmental drivers and biotic interactions'

Read here 👇

https://t.co/IbAucRNTAz

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📖 Published 📖

Common ground: Efficient, consistent, observer-independent bioacoustic call density estimation with adjudicated ground truth and capture–recapture detection functions🌍 🐦‍⬛

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https://t.co/rISWrj0siY

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📖 Published📖

SOUPE: An R package to test and optimise the phylogenetic and ecological representativeness of a taxonomic sample 🧪 🌍 🖥️

🔎 Read more: https://t.co/o4nZKClqqU

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📖 Published📖

Tuning the tools: Validating empirical and modelled correction factors for diet estimation in pelagic teleosts🌍 🐟️ 🖥️

🔎 Find out more: https://t.co/pXoT3FLrQw

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🎧️ Check out our recent podcast episode with our Early Career Research prize winner on drone use in ecology 🌍

👉️ https://t.co/6rRqKL5Uok
👉️ https://t.co/5WvrTlCj5r

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📖 Published📖

MorphSim: An R package for simulating discrete morphological data

MorphSim integrates directly with TreeSim, FossilSim and SimClock, providing a complete end-to-end pipeline for generating datasets🖥️ 🌍 🧪

🔎 https://t.co/rUzqL6y9pm

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New blog post! 🚨

Jonathan Syme tells us the story behind his recent application article 'sampley: A Python package for sampling visual survey data'

Read here 👇

https://t.co/OgOewsNqA4

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📖 Published📖

ForestForTrees: An R package to infer forest structure from remote sensing data🌳

ForestForTrees enables transparent, sensor-agnostic inference of complete forest size-abundance distributions from remotely sensed canopy data🌍🌲

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https://t.co/BkNQcdgowj

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📖 Published📖

An intuitive method to calculate the utilization distribution of an animal from step-selection analysis🖥️ 🌍 📈

🔎 Read more: https://t.co/j8QlC3hin2

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New blog post! 🚨

Nyniane Steinkampf–Pellecuer, Idriss Pelletan and Pauline Provini tell the story behind their new paper 'SOUPE: An R package to test and optimise the phylogenetic and ecological representativeness of a taxonomic sample'

Read here👇

https://t.co/JrbSCcxnWN