Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The first issue of 2026 is now out! 🚨 This issue contains our new special feature 'Conservation, ecology and artificial intelligence: Advances and symbiotic solutions'. Read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/AmWPK0C

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Kal Backman's study focused on extracting animal sightings from large volumes of thermal video drone data for use in abundance modelling and detection of protected species 🛩️ Read more here 👇 buff.ly/RBlPs8C

Submit your proposals for our new special feature! The special feature aims to examine time-dependency in evolution across scales. Find out more here👉 buff.ly/dgxI6YD

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Jenna Kline's paper provides a comprehensive overview and field guide for researchers working at the intersection of computer vision, aerial robotics, and behavioral ecology 🦒 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/HEmk8Eh

📖 Published Modular and scalable system for 3D behavioural assays of olfactory and gustatory preferences in flying insects This setup is suitable for exploring the influence of olfactory and gustatory compounds on insect visitation patterns 🐝🌻 🔎 buff.ly/bg35fqo

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Pieter Sanczuk talks about their new article, testing whether optical fibres can be used to measure microclimate temperatures in the forest 🌳 🌡️ Read the blog here 👇 buff.ly/OlCR4Z3

🚨 New blog post estar: An R package to measure ecological stability🌍 Find out more about the estar package, which helps researchers analyse stability using the data they collect from real world systems 👇️ 🔎 buff.ly/5eHCkZ7

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Here is the first blog post from a shortlisted author! Or Ben-Zvi talks her paper introducing a new underwater microscope with integrated photosynthetic efficiency measurements 🤿 🔬 @orbzvi Read here 👉 buff.ly/2h9A4rw

📖 New paper Microclimf: Fast modelling of microclimate across real landscapes in R microclimf is microclimate model designed for efficient, gridded estimation of microclimate, principally temperature, within and below vegetation canopies 🌳 🌍 🖥️ 🔎 buff.ly/JOfMvGB

Have you had a look at MEEs new article type, Workflows? Find out more in our blog post, editorial and author guidelines! Blog post 👉 buff.ly/1sSmEtp Editorial 👉 buff.ly/bbbAZSk Author guidelines 👉 buff.ly/bbbAZSk

📖 Published A novel generalized spatial mark-resight model that accounts for group associations The authors developed a gSMR model that accounts for group associations to estimate spatial abundance🖥️ 🐺 🔎 buff.ly/gFUke3g

Published 📖 A covariate-augmented mixed gamma-exponential time-to-detection occupancy model This framework provides a flexible tool for analysing TTD data in the presence of structured detection heterogeneity 🖥️ 🌍 buff.ly/VChRtXc

We're pleased to announce the shortlist for this year's Robert May prize! 🌟 Each year, we award the Robert May prize to the best paper in the journal by an early career author 🏅 See the full list below 👇 buff.ly/SosksZF

Published 📖 Generalized graphical mixed models connect ecological theory with widely used statistical models GGMMs connect ecological theory with statistical models that are applied for inference, prediction, and causal analysis in ecology 🖥️🌍 🔎 buff.ly/EQlrEVl

New paper📖 Data-driven discovery of mechanistic ecosystem models with LLMs 🖥️ LEMMA produces models with meaningful parameters that capture biological processes, facilitating scientific insight and potentially accelerating management applications👇️ buff.ly/4M0qLEv

Just a couple of days left to sign up to our next MEE live! Don't miss it! ⏰️ 12th March, 10am UK time Find our more and register here 👉 buff.ly/0hrRYjv

Published📖 Validating a low-cost alternative to body surface area estimation: Implications for energy budgets and scaling relationships of ectotherms 🦎 🐍 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/8qFO3Ev

Published 📖 Farm-scale Natural Capital Accounting: Unlocking the potential of natural capital to support sustainable agriculture🌽 Providing farmers with info used for sustainability reporting and the promotion of sustainable farm practices🚜 🔎 buff.ly/s6t8FA6

Published 📖 Harnessing iEcology data to uncover invasive species behaviour This paper demonstrates the application of iEcology to uncover novel insights into the behaviour of invasive species, such as dominance over the native species🦑 🐜 🔎 buff.ly/cv9EoTZ

Published 📖 A general method for detection and segmentation of terrestrial arthropods in images🪲 flatbug offers ecologists a ready-to-use, accurate tool for arthropod monitoring that addresses common limitations of existing methods 👇️ buff.ly/WhGqn0y

🤝 we're recruiting an Associate Blog Editor! 📝 join us in identifying, commissioning, and editing blog posts for Animal Ecology in Focus 🐝 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here: buff.ly/I9Kf6Er