Top Papers
The Methods in Ecology and Evolution papers most frequently downloaded in December 2011 are listed below.
- How safe is mist netting? Evaluating the risk of injury and mortality to birds
by Erica Spotswood, Kari Goodman, Jay Carlisle, Renée Cormier, Diana Humple, Josée Rousseau, Susan Guers and Gina Barton
Open Access; Featured in Guardian Science, Birdwatch Magazine and Conservation Magazine
- phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)
by Liam Revell
Free application
- Getting started with meta-analysis
by Freya Harrison
Listen to the podcast
- RBrownie: an R package for testing hypotheses about rates of evolutionary change
by Conrad Stack, Luke Harmon and Brian O'Meara
Free application
- FDiversity: a software package for the integrated analysis of functional diversity
by Fernando Casanoves, Laura Pla, Julio A. Di Rienzo and Sandra Díaz
Free application
- PASSaGE: Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis. Version 2
by Michael S. Rosenberg and Corey Devin Anderson
Free application
- Do not log-transform count data
by Robert O'Hara and Johan Kotze
- Python based GIS tools for landscape genetics: visualising genetic relatedness and measuring landscape connectivity
by Thomas R. Etherington
Free application
- Where are my quadrats? Positional accuracy in fieldwork
by Mike Dodd
- A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems
by Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Chris S. Elphick
Top cited articles
Papers published in Methods that have generated the highest number of citations in ISI Web of Knowledge in 2011, are listed below.
- A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems
Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Chris S. Elphick - The art of modelling range-shifting species
Jane Elith, Michael Kearney, Steven Phillips - Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients
Holger Schielzeth - Do not log-transform count data
Robert B. O’Hara, D. Johan Kotze - Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology
Douglas G. Barron, Jeffrey D. Brawn, Patrick J. Weatherhead - A new method for detecting and interpreting biodiversity and ecological community thresholds
Matthew E. Baker, Ryan S. King - Featuring 10 phenological estimators using simulated data
Jean-Pierre Moussus, Romain Julliard, Frédéric Jiguet - Comparing measures of species diversity from incomplete inventories: an update
Jan Beck, Wolfgang Schwanghart - When should we use one-tailed hypothesis testing?
Graeme D. Ruxton, Markus Neuhäuser - Sensitivity of stable isotope mixing models to variation in isotopic ratios: evaluating consequences of lipid extraction
Arnaud Tarroux, Dorothée Ehrich, Nicolas Lecomte, Timothy D. Jardine, Joël Bêty, Dominique Berteaux - Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data
Liam J. Revell - An empirical model for estimating aquatic invertebrate respiration
Thomas Brey - A novel approach to detecting a regime shift in a lake ecosystem
Gideon Gal, William Anderson - Parameter landscapes unveil the bias in allometric prediction
Cang Hui, John S. Terblanche, Steven L. Chown, Melodie A. McGeoch - Comparison of seedling emergence and seed extraction techniques for estimating the composition of soil seed banks
Jodi N. Price, Boyd R. Wright, Caroline L. Gross, Wal R. D. B. Whalley - How many hosts? Modelling host breadth from field samples
Peter Vesk, Michael McCarthy, Melinda Moir - The effects of geolocator drag and weight on the flight ranges of small migrants
Melissa Bowlin, Per Henningsson, Florian Muijres, Roel Vleugels, Felix Liechti, Anders Hedenstrom - Spatially explicit spreadsheet modelling for optimising the efficiency of reducing invasive animal density
Clive McMahon, Barry Brook, Neil Collier, Corey Bradshaw - A versatile telemetry system for continuous measurement of heart rate, body temperature and locomotor activity in free-ranging ruminants
Claudio Signer, Thomas Ruf, Franz Schober, Gerhard Fluch, Thomas Paumann, Walter Arnold - Design of occupancy studies with imperfect detection
Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Martin S. Ridout, Byron J. T. Morgan
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