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

Find out more about Jenna and her paper here 👉 buff.ly/nDh6OY0 Read all the papers shortlisted for the prize here 👉 buff.ly/2vXmzb4

Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an early career author. The award is named in honour of the former BES President who was the leading theoretical ecologist of his generation (3/4)

We are excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Robert May prize is Jenna Kline!🏆️ Jenna and and her colleagues set a benchmark for future work using autonomous drones powered by edge AI to collect and analyse behavioural data of group living animals in real time🦒 (1/4)

📖 Published📖 A Bayesian classification model to reconstruct lifetime movement patterns of riverine fish using environmental tracers The simulation allows uncertainty to be incorporated at each life stage🖥️ 🧪 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/ZItAb65

🖥️ New blog post! What a national marine dataset taught us about the power of quality control and collaboration🐠 Brooke Bond discusses the challenges one faces when dealing with large datasets📖 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/WLW7i3z

🚨 New blog post Jeremy Pustilnik and Genevieve Rios discuss their new tool used in natural history specimen 3D digitization: The new COPIS framework, which combines robotics and photogrammetry🐒 🖥️ Find out more 👇️ buff.ly/SKYXfJX

📖 Published! adapt3: Adaptive dynamics and community projection in the R programming language🖥️ Package adapt3 can be used to study the nature and stability of ecological interactions, the mechanics of natural selection and even speciation🌍 🌳 🔎 buff.ly/WLW7i3z

📖 Published! fastbioclim: An R package for creating custom-time bioclimatic and derived environmental summary variables🖥️ fastbioclim enhances the quality of environmental data for more temporally accurate ecological and biogeographical studies🌍 🔎 buff.ly/ycL9wYH

📖Published📖 In this study, authors propose a new approach for measuring directional root placement in competitive set-ups, with two methods that calculate the centroid of the root system without measuring overall root length 📏 Read the article👇 buff.ly/2FB35dy

Evolution colleagues: please consider to send in a proposal for an article to our forthcoming theme issue in @MethodsEcolEvol on "Time-dependency in micro- and macroevolutionary rates". Deadline for title + Abstract May 1, full article October 31 2026: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/20…

📖Published📖 Passive environmental DNA sampling: A review of current practices, limitations and future directions for biodiversity monitoring 🧬 buff.ly/fB6NKeH

📖Published📖 In this study, authors show how camera-traps can be used to infer patterns of both activity and habitat use by deconfounding these effects 📸 Read more here👇 buff.ly/dzp4uyT

📖Published📖 Are acoustic indices useful for biodiversity research? Read this recent persepctive article on the topic here👇 buff.ly/EdOWRZO

Watch the recording of our latest MEE live! 📺️ In this webinar, Dr. Ludmilla Figueiredo and Dr. Viktoriia Radchuk introduced the R package estar. Keep an eye out for our next MEE live! 🌟 buff.ly/hZBTs7o

📖Published📖 In this study, authors propose DeepMaxent, a new species distribution models method for presence-only data that generalizes Maxent to multi-species deep neural networks with a direct relationship to a Poisson count loss. Read here 👇 buff.ly/nQsHWrP

📖Published📖 We present an analytical framework for ecosystem service (ES) upscaling that incorporates spatial interactions between landscape properties, which determine ES supply. Find out more here 👇 buff.ly/cd3qM2N

📖Published📖 Check out our new perspective article 👉 A suitable approach to resource allocation in biosecurity when considering dependent benefits and costs Read the article at the link below! buff.ly/soosvUm

📖Published📖 3D laser scanning is a cornerstone of modern forest and ecological research. Here, authors propose a new noise compression method designed to better distinguish noise from information-bearing points within MLS-point clouds 🌳 buff.ly/VAoQ2pL

📖Published📖 This is the first study to explore automated fish abundance counting in a DOV setup. Here, authors proposed three automated fish counting methods that used detections derived from a deep learning model as an input 🐟️ Read here👇 buff.ly/DzaMM9s