Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Our April issue is out now! This month's cover image shows a southern rock agama lizard basking on top of a rock outcrop in the Western Cape Province of South Africa 🦎 Find out more about the cover and read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/HuP1Sfl

📖Published📖 This study demonstrates that preregistration in model-based research in ecology and conservation is both possible and beneficial , proposing, testing and evaluating a methodology for 'adaptive preregistration' 🪴 Find out more below 👇 buff.ly/To1CC8H

📖Published📖 A distributed large-volume soil sampling approach to address spatial heterogeneity in eDNA data collection🐞 This sampling approach successfully distinguished arthropod communities between management systems🌍🧪 🔎 buff.ly/ApRcBnW

📖 Published 📖 AutoPollS: A tool for automated monitoring of pollinators using deep learning🧪 An open-source system for automated, image-based monitoring of flower-visiting insects🐝 🌸 🌍 buff.ly/fdtN0x5

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

📖 Published📖 charisma: An R package to perform reproducible colour characterization of digital images for biological studies🖥️ 🦁 🌳 👇️ buff.ly/CoMvgwK

📖 Published 📖 Beyond the next step: A multi-criteria generative validation framework for step selection functions🧪 🌍 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/JmlyVUC.

📖 Published 📖 TABMON: Design and deployment of a transnational passive acoustic monitoring network for European birds 🐦️ TABMON provides a methodological blueprint for transnational, networked PAM deployments 👇️ buff.ly/Exm7YFm

📖 Published📖 Trait coevolution and causal inference using generalized dynamic phylogenetic models🧪 🌍 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/FMcS5ut

📖 Published📖 From short to long: The impact of read length on metagenome assembly and binning These findings advocate for the integration of extended read lengths and Nanopore sequencing in metagenome analysis🖥️ 🧬 🔎 buff.ly/GSlEntU

📖 Published📖 Confidence intervals for extinction risk: Validating population viability analysis with limited data🌱 🐮 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/iPtZn8F

New blog post! 🚨 In the last blog, Senior Editor Natalie Cooper wrote about how to organise a Hackathon. In this second part, she provides an example from the BES Data and Code Hackathon we ran in September 2025 💻️ Read the blog here👇 buff.ly/SmYEgiu

📖 Published📖 Introducing pylifemap, a Python package that allows users to map their own data directly on the interactive taxonomic tree proposed by Lifemap🖥️ 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/40UdgF3

📖 Published📖 Rapid construction of insect–plant interaction networks via multiplexed long-fragment DNA metabarcoding and NGS🪲 🧬 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/UbT1Kmc

📖 Published📖 A new acoustic telemetry tag that identifies carrier mortality by monitoring activity level The tag will be a valuable addition to the acoustic telemetry toolbox, especially with mobile surveys🖥️ 🐦️ 🔎 buff.ly/AquJbH5

Call for proposals to organise a workshop and thematic session at the BES2026 Annual Meeting closes soon! Submit a proposal and help shape the agenda of Europe's largest ecological conference. Deadline: 15 May ⏱️ Submit today 👇 britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-an…

New podcast episode! 🎧 Francis Mullan and Clint Penick discuss their recently published paper, "nesting biology shapes climate vulnerability of social bees". Listen to the podcast here: buff.ly/Jk3ZyvB Read their paper here: buff.ly/4FjX66g @AuburnAg

📖 Published📖 This paper demonstrate the value of incorporating genetic marker data into latent variable models🖥️ 🧬 👇️ buff.ly/sBfV1a2

There’s still time to submit your proposal! Contributions will explore empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and statistical frameworks for detecting and interpreting rate variation over time. Proposal deadline: 1 May 2026. @MethodsEcolEvol ➡️ ow.ly/mARf50YMBQF

🚨Sign up for our next MEE live! 💡Richard Shefferson will be joining us in the free online webinar to go through ADAPT3- adaptive dynamics and community projection in the R programming language. 🔎Find out more and register here 👉️ buff.ly/c3p6K1e

📖 Published📖 A terrestrial laser scanning-based workflow for component-wise estimation of individual tree above-ground biomass This workflow demonstrates strong potential for improving the accuracy of tree biomass quantification🌳🌲🌍 🔎 buff.ly/fYH5z6l