Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Our October issue is out now! 🚨 This month's cover image shows a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) beside a mountain road. The image highlights the vulnerability of wildlife moving through landscapes crossed by human infrastructure 🛣️ Find out more and read the whole issue now 👇 buff.ly/ibUvY8k

There is still time to submit a proposal for this cross-journal special feature. 🕚Deadline 5th November

📖 Published 📖 UNIQAT can help deliver objective and tunable image quality metrics in a versatile toolkit that enables transparent reporting and supports unsupervised quality assessment for applications in marine monitoring and robotics 📷 🪸 🐡 👉️ buff.ly/nUmKM6c

New blog post!🚨 Dead alien DNA tells the story of underground ecological interactions. In this blog post, authors introduce HGTScanner, a Python tool to characterize HGT across whole organellar genomes 🧬🌍 🧪 buff.ly/ZHeCUZL

New blog post!🚨 Roads, power lines and wind turbines kill an enormous number of animals every year. Researchers have long that known that roadkill counts were incomplete, and this paper set out to measure how many animals actually die due to collisions. Read the blog post here 👇 buff.ly/lvqMpTT

📖Published📖 In this application paper, authors introduce HGTScanner, a Python tool to characterize horizontal gene transfer across whole organellar genomes 🌍 🧪 Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/myb0643

📖Published📖 An integrated model of territory occupancy and mark-recapture data for estimating spatial variation in survival 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇 buff.ly/LBO8zsG

📖Published📖 Authors introduce a novel, cost-effective, miniaturized PM2.5 datalogger (‘smoke logger’) that collects sub-hourly particulate matter data throughout entire fire seasons and can be deployed on GPS collars or as a stationary unit within animal home ranges. Read here👇 buff.ly/4r5kGdk

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article 👉 Distinguishing pairwise species spatial associations from multi-species distribution patterns 🌍 🧪 Read the whole article here 👇 buff.ly/dHXxpXE

📖 Published📖 This review argues that edge AI systems enable timely and scalable ecological observations, but realising their full potential depends on closer collaboration 🤖 🧪 🌏️ 👉️ buff.ly/I1YCBJf

📖 Published 📖 Theia: An end-to-end edge-AI mobile framework for high-throughput field phenotyping and on-device geometric morphometrics 🖥️ 📊 🌻 👉️ buff.ly/oC3rIiT

📣 Call for proposals! We're currently accepting proposals for our new cross-journal Special Feature: '70 Years of ecological genetics: Past, present, and future' until November 5th! 🧬 📈 🌏️ Find out more here👇️ buff.ly/tz2bEwX

📖 Published 📖 This approach reveals where particular regions of climatic space are common or rare, how isolated they are and how these properties influence species richness across dimensions 🗺️ 🦔 📈 👉️ buff.ly/IDWtvjS

New blog post!🚨 Read our newest blog post 'Defining species’ ranges in practice, not just in theory' 🐟️ 🗺️ 🦅 Find the blog post here🧪 🌏️ 👇️ buff.ly/4iGcG8c

📖 Published📖 Through simulation, this study found that reliably detecting range edge shifts may require decades of data or more, suggesting that many global change studies in this field are underpowered 🗺️ 🐦‍⬛ 🧪 👉️ buff.ly/ceG9RdU

New paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social ! We integrate mark-recapture (MR) and territory occupancy data to estimate spatial variation in survival and its drivers when MR data are sparce. We test this new method using long-term data on peregrine falcons in Hungary. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

New blog post!🚨 Author Derya Akkaynak describes how to see underwater colour accurately in 'The photograph you didn’t take: why underwater colour science starts before the shutter' 📸 🪸 🌈 Find the blog post here🧪 🌏️ 👇️ buff.ly/alJkmEA

Call for proposals! 📑 Would you like to advance the field of Ecological Genetics through an empirical, theoretical, or perspective lens? 🧬 Submit an article proposal to our new cross-journal Special Feature below 👇 buff.ly/tz2bEwX

good morning. I strongly suspect that we don't really know (or agree) what geographic ranges are, and therefore, our estimates of how species' ranges are shifting in the Anthropocene are uninterpretable. I wrote something about this: doi.org/10.1111/2041... and I'll share the main findings...

📖 Published📖 This study explains the consequences for quantitative imaging and introduce the 3P Protocol for distortion-free colour imaging underwater 🪸 🌊 📸 👉️ buff.ly/w216WMw

📖Published📖 Here, authors describe EMITS, a tool that implements EM-based abundance estimation purpose-built for fungal ITS communities from long-read sequencing 🧬 🌍 🧪 Read more here👇 buff.ly/lKHFonx

📖Published📖 Here, authors present miFRED (microbial Functional REDundancy), an accessible computational approach to quantify functional redundancy of microbial phenotypes and communities based on phenotypic rather than genetic annotation 🦠🌍 🧪 Read here👇 buff.ly/ARnfoOP

Could you help shape the 2027 BES symposium? We are looking for a BES member to propose a programme for our 2027 symposium on the theme of Novel Futures in Ecology – what do we know and what should we do? Find out more and apply here www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-...

🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨 Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution? @eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.

📖Published📖 This paper introduces bacpipe, a collection of bioacoustic deep learning models and evaluation pipelines accessible through a graphical and programming interface, designed for both ecologists and computer scientists 🌍 🧪 Read here👇 buff.ly/EzLAHDM

We are so excited to announce Arvid Ågren as our next webinar speaker on the 21st October at 3:30PM (BST). @arvidagren.bsky.social works on genomic conflict—the selective tensions within every cell and how they are resolved. Register (for free) here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...

💡 Can we count elephants from space? 🐘 Wilks et al. share their experience investigating the potential use of satellite surveys to identify elephants in the heterogeneous terrain of Botswana, Africa. 👇 Read here! buff.ly/v9c8ox7

📖Published📖 A validated 3D point-cloud analysis workflow for the creation of seagrass canopy height models 🌍 🧪 Read the article here👇 buff.ly/euhptKZ

New blog post!🚨 Read our newest blog post 'The Baby and the Teddy Bear: The Flash of Insight Behind the WAH-i Algorithm' by author Ravi Umadi 🦇 🔊 🎙️ Find the blog post here🧪 🌏️ 👇️ buff.ly/JRSeQix

📖Published📖 This study presents a novel method for obtaining population-genetic information of individual vertebrates via eDNA samples by integrating molecular sexing with targeted analysis of mitochondrial variants obtained via long-range PCR and ONT sequencing 🧬🐋 Read here👇 buff.ly/xHE1iLc

Missed our last MEE live? You can now find it on our Youtube! 🌍 🧪 In this this webinar, Antica Culina introduces the concept of Risk of Bias (RoB), and discusses why RoB assessment matters for producing reliable systematic reviews and meta-analyses. buff.ly/B2GOVNe

📖Published📖 This article developed a standardized protocol for simultaneously monitoring the leaf phenology of canopy and ground-layer vegetation in tropical dry ecosystems, using pole and tree-mounted trail cameras 🌳 📸 🌍 🧪 Read here👇 buff.ly/PZKVaRk

📖Published📖 This study investigates the practical application and sensitivity of eRNA for detecting fish in the wild🧬🐟️ Find out more here 👇 buff.ly/yq0tRrh

📖Published📖 Here, authors present the Descriptron-GBIF Annotator, a browser-based tool for the biological community that lets anyone create structured, ontology-linked morphological annotations of GBIF and literature specimen images with AI assistance. Read the article here👇 buff.ly/sMNiWaM

📖 Published📖 This perspective argues that reframing persistent challenges as interconnected problems of implementation, rather than aspiration, will help in overcoming a century of inertia in quantitative ecology education 📚️ 📈 🎒 🔎 buff.ly/EdhVNrV

📖 Published📖 This proposed framework is broadly applicable to bioacoustic localisation problems beyond echolocating bats, including avian tracking, passive acoustic monitoring and conservation-oriented sensing 🦅 🔊 🦇 🔎 buff.ly/RMGtogR

New blog post!🚨 These researchers wanted to answer the question 'How much of a vocalisation do we need to hear before we can recognise the individual?' in birds 🐦️ 🔊 🧪 Find out more 🌏️ 👇️ buff.ly/XhyDoHb

📖 Published📖 Mind(the)Plant provides a novel methodological framework for studying plant behaviour, signalling and phenotypic plasticity in ecological and evolutionary research 🌿 🌱 🧪 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/RtefLho

📖 Published📖 geohabnet provides a quick, open-source, reproducible and generalizable approach to evaluating potential scenarios for the spread of a species through habitat landscapes 🌾 🗺️ 🦠 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/M3JBFQW

Last chance to register for our MEE live on thursday!

New blog post! 🚨 Read our new blog post 'From replicate detection to DNA concentration: What can ddPCR tell us about sedaDNA metabarcoding?' 🧬🐟️ 🧪 Find it here 🌏️ 👇️ buff.ly/q4r1ASq

📖 Published📖 These results show that the mean–variance scaling of the Taylor's power law controls patterns of intraspecific trait variability and should be taken into account when assessing trait diversity within species 🍃 🌻 📈 🔎 buff.ly/Nro2oI9

We're looking for Ecological Genetics article proposals 🧬 #EGG70 Topics include: 💭Synthesis & reflections 📚Lessons from long-term studies 🏛️Genomics in policy & management 🔎Next-generation monitoring 🌍Adaptation & resilience under global change buff.ly/N1385n4

📖 Published📖 This study presents a reproducible, LiDAR-native framework for quantifying and comparing 3D crown morphology within and across species 🌲 🌳 🪾 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/7nZk4Y4

📖 Published📖 This work underscores the synergy of human expertise and LLM capabilities, offering a robust, transparent pipeline for efficient, large-scale literature mining in ecology and conservation 📃 🖥️ 🌏️ 🔎 buff.ly/1tOvEVE

📖 Published📖 A method to estimate actual infrastructure-induced mortality by integrating hierarchical sources of imperfect detection 🧪 📈 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/1CLbCww

Our new #ProyectoSAFE paper, “A method to estimate actual infrastructure-induced mortality by integrating hierarchical sources of imperfect detection”, is now online in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ebdonana.bsky.social #RoadEcology