Methods in Ecology and Evolution
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
Publishing analytical, practical and conceptual advances in methods across all areas of ecology and evolutionary biology. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
Our July Issue is now out! 🚨 This months cover shows Grévy's zebras grazing beneath gathering clouds at Mpala, Kenya, during an evening drone mission conducted in 2022 as part of the WildCap project 🦓 Find out more and read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/WM9obOy
📖 Published📖 This study sheds light on the strengths and limitations of different classification algorithms across taxonomic groups and barcode characteristics🧬 🍄 🧪 buff.ly/5ZfeMC2
📖Published📖 This study introduces a methodological framework to examine the association between morphology and motion. Authors applied the workflow to the analysis of respiratory function, proposing it as a new method to analyse the variability of breathing patterns 🫁👇 buff.ly/9knyZRU
📖Published📖 This study introduces Integration_Patterns, a statistical framework implemented in R for comparing group-specific integration patterns based on the angular relationships among PLS covariation axes 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇
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📖Published📖 This new review article proposes several main steps towards increasing the use of Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment in ecology and evolutionary biology and highlights the important role of the synthesis community, but also of journals and funders 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇
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📖Published📖 Check out this new research article 👉 Flexible specification of directional spatial processes for eigenvector maps 🗺️ 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/457J30c
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🌟 Final month to nominate projects for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards! Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual. sortee.org/awards/
What a wonderful workshop we organised together with Niña Quibod at #ATBC2026 on #Outreach for tropical #biodiverisity 🥬Thanks to all the participants for your creativity. Huge thanks to our sponsors💚 @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social & CharmEU
📖 Published📖 Flexible specification of directional spatial processes for eigenvector maps 🌏️ 🐠 🧬 🔎 Find out more:
Flexible specification of directional spatial processes for eigenvector maps
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📖 Published📖 sabinaHSBM: An R package for link prediction and network reconstruction using hierarchical stochastic block models🐆 🌏️ 🧪 🔎 Find out more:
sabinaHSBM: An R package for link prediction and network reconstruction using hierarchical stochastic block models
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📖 Published📖 Modelling density surfaces from integrated passive acoustic and point count data streams 🐦️ 🔊 🧪 Read more👇️ buff.ly/8r6vPVU
📖 Published📖 SANE has the potential to assess the relative contribution of different noise types to overall acoustic pollution, opening new research avenues regarding the effects of acoustic pollution on wildlife🔊 🦅 🏙️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/J0XiUKy
📖 Published📖 Predicting ecological interactions across space through pairwise integration of latent network patterns 🏝️ 🌏️ 🧪 Read here👉️
Predicting ecological interactions across space through pairwise integration of latent network patterns
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📖 Published📖 BIMr2: Inference of migration rates and their drivers from multilocus genotypes🌳🧬🧪
BIMr2: Inference of migration rates and their drivers from multilocus genotypes
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🎧️ New podcast episode! In this episode, we talk to authors András Zábó and Aamir Ahmad about their new paper on animal pattern recognition 👇️ Spotify: buff.ly/sjZ0APW Soundcloud: buff.ly/ECzGyPi
Congratulations to Jenna Kline, winner of the BES 2025 Robert May prize in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! Jenna et al. set a benchmark with AI drones capturing real-time behaviour of group-living animals. @jennakline.bsky.social https://bit.ly/44jPtpW
📖 Published📖 Residual diagnostics for assessing closed population capture–recapture models🐁 🖥️ 🧪
Residual diagnostics for assessing closed population capture–recapture models
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Registration and call for abstracts for the BES Annual Meeting 2026 are now open 🔥 Our sold-out and Europe's largest ecology conference is returning this year to Birmingham's ICC on 14–17 December, and we can't wait to see you there. Find out more here 👇 https://tinyurl.com/2s3nupvu
What does it mean to be an ecologist? 🔎🔬📸 The Ecologists in Action category of our Capturing Ecology competition celebrates the people behind ecology, working to understand and protect our natural world. Submit your photos by 31 August 👇 BES members enter for free.
Ecology Photo Competition | Capturing Ecology 2026 | BES
Enter the BES 2026 annual ecology photo competition and submit pictures of ecology that showcase nature, wildlife and research for a chance to win prizes.
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📖 Published📖 Inference on state occupancy in covariate-driven hidden Markov models🐢 🌏️ 🧪 Find out more:
Inference on state occupancy in covariate-driven hidden Markov models
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We’re very excited to confirm that Rosemary Grant will be giving our inaugural online webinar in September. It’s free to all, so please look out for details of how to sign up for tickets.
📖 Published📖 Magnetic geolocation is a viable complementary tool for tracking small avian species, particularly in contexts where pressure-based methods cannot be used🐦️ 🌏️ 🧪 buff.ly/qjJvgZt
Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
The latest study from #ProyectoSAFE has been accepted for publication in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We look forward to sharing all the details with you soon. #RoadEcology @britishecologicalsociety.org @ebdonana.bsky.social
📖 Published📖 Accuracy of occurrence and abundance estimates from insect metabarcoding🪳 🧬 🧪
Accuracy of occurrence and abundance estimates from insect metabarcoding
DNA metabarcoding—high-throughput sequencing of barcode regions from bulk samples—has become a key tool for insect biodiversity assessment. Yet, how methodological choices affect the accuracy of m...
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Our new #OA paper on importance of risk of bias assessment for ecology and evolutionary biology is out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. It was great to be part of this project brilliantly led by @anticac.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New blog post 🚨 Hubert A. Szczygieł goes through the story behind Mothbox and Mothbot, and automated light trap and data processing system for scalable insect monitoring 📸 🐜 buff.ly/fhgIhzK
