Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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 👇 buff.ly/FxZm52n

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

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📖 Published📖 Enriching historical biologging datasets on seabirds using deep neural networks: A transformer-based approach to infer energy expenditure proxy from GPS and environmental data 🪽 🌊 🧠 🔎 buff.ly/WhI87Ej

Read our new blog post! Forking anatomy: borrowing software’s best idea to build 3D atlases together Read here👇 buff.ly/2438L2P

📖 Published📖 This study aims to provide an easy-to-use template for studying alternative stable states with snapshot field survey data, which can be tailored to individual study systems 🌱 🧪 🌏️ 🔎 buff.ly/aT6nkJv

New blog post! 🚨 Read about the new fish ‘lolly’ that provides a window to study predation underwater 🍭 🐟️ buff.ly/vIwG6Tz

📖 Published📖 Robust estimation of key leaf traits from reflectance spectroscopy of herbarium specimens 🧪 🌏️ 🍃 buff.ly/CkA7TII

We are very happy to announce that following an open call earlier this year, we have welcomed 44 new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution, spanning 16 countries! 🌍 Read the blog post below to find out more about our new editors👇 buff.ly/XIL8CmB

I recently joined the Editorial board of @MethodsEcolEvol, where I'm excited to handle papers about stability, ecoacoustics, response diversity, and more. I love this journal, and my 1st ever paper was in MEE, so it feels like I've come full circle! #R" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/20…

Just a few days left to submit a proposal for our latest special feature! Deadline for proposals is the 10th July, and paper submission will be due in February 2027⏰️ Find out more and submit a proposal 👇 buff.ly/AP33DCC

We're doing another MEE live! 🚨 Join us on the 23rd July at 3pm BST to learn more about the R package multinomialTS! Find out more and register here 👇 buff.ly/ynJ3nNl

📖 Published📖 RAPID: Real-time animal pattern re-identification on edge devices, an open-source tool for field deployment🖥️ 🌍 🦁 🔎 buff.ly/cH9Ul2b

Our July issue is now out!🚨 This months cover image shows a black goby gummy waits to be consumed, enticing local predators on a shallow Belizean coral reef 🐟️ Read more about goby gummies and the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/w8T25UF

📖 Published📖 Ecological examples of nonstationarity, nonlinearity and statistical interactions in dynamic structural equation models 🖥️ 🌍 🧪 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/OjN9KJ0

📖 Published📖 A continuous-time random encounter and staying time (REST) model: Moving beyond temporal aggregation in camera-trap density estimation🌍 📸 🖥️ 🔎 buff.ly/ziMdCKq

Just 10 days left to submit a proposal!

📢 Call for proposals! This Special Feature explores the advancement of ecovoltaics - the development of ecologically informed photovoltaic (PV) designs that co-prioritise PV electricity generation with ecosystem function 🌿💡 ⏰ Submit by 31 July buff.ly/GoQvVTz

📖 Published📖 Harnessing edge computing and citizen science: A new prototype design for continental-scale acoustic monitoring in Australia and beyond🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/A1wkNCJ

📖 Published📖 Inferring processes within dynamic forest models using hybrid modelling🌳 🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/H7OyCkl

📖 Published📖 Optimal deep learning activity recognition pipeline using animal bio-logging data 🖥️ 🌍 🧪 These findings (and the provided R script) provide researchers with an optimal animal activity recognition pipeline👇️ buff.ly/1WEIsKl