Virtual Issue: British Ecological Society Methods Papers
Edited by Rob Freckleton
July 2009
For nearly 100 years the British Ecological Society has been at the forefront of publishing ecological research, as well as identifying the need for new publications to serve the ecological community. The origin of Methods in Ecology and Evolution lies in the recognition that methodological papers are extremely important, of interest to ecologists and evolutionary biologists alike, and that a distinct niche existed for a publication devoted to methodological advances. Here we mark the launch of Methods in Ecology and Evolution by bringing together papers recently published in the British Ecological Society’s four already established journals. These papers encompass a range of methodological studies. In doing so we hope to highlight the range of types of methodological paper that our new journal will publish in the future: these include papers in diverse areas such as statistics, stable isotope methods, spatial analysis, as well as methods used in broad areas such as evolutionary ecology, community ecology and in applied and conservation ecology.
R.P. Freckleton, Editor in Chief, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Editorial
Introduction to the BES Virtual Issue: Methods in Ecology and Evolution
R.P. Freckleton, Editor
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Statistical Methods
New paradigms for modelling species distributions?
Rushton et al.
Journal of Applied Ecology
Why do we still use stepwise modelling in ecology and behaviour?
Whittingham et al.
Journal of Animal Ecology
Measuring Spatial Processes
Measuring long-distance seed dispersal in complex natural environments: an evaluation and integration of classical and genetic methods
Jones & Muller-Landau
Journal of Ecology
Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory
Law et al.
Journal of Ecology
Stable Isotopes
Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis
Bearhop et al.
Journal of Animal Ecology
Lipid corrections in carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses: comparison of chemical extraction and modelling methods
Logan et al.
Journal of Animal Ecology
Evolutionary Ecology
Measuring senescence in wild animal populations: towards a longitudinal approach
Nussey et al.
Functional Ecology
Evaluating performance costs of sexually selected traits
Oufiero & Garland
Functional Ecology
Community Ecology
Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits
Mason et al.
Journal of Animal Ecology
Evaluating the performance of species richness estimators: sensitivity to sample grain size
Hortal et al.
Journal of Animal Ecology
Population genetics
Using spatial Bayesian methods to determine the genetic structure of a continuously distributed population: clusters or isolation by distance?
Frantz et al.
Journal of Applied Ecology
Growth & Physiology
Assessing the patterns and controls of fine root dynamics: an empirical test and methodological review
Hendricks et al.
Journal of Ecology
Computer Technolgy
A computer-aided program for pattern-matching of natural marks on the spotted raggedtooth shark Carcharias taurus
Tienhoven et al.
Journal of Applied Ecology
Inter-disciplinary methods
Integrating socio-economics and ecology: a taxonomy of quantitative methods and a review of their use in agro-ecology
Cooke et al.
Journal of Applied Ecology
Applied Ecology
How you count counts: the importance of methods research in applied ecology
Elphick
Journal of Applied Ecology
Predicting the ecological consequences of environmental change: a review of the methods*
Sutherland
Journal of Applied Ecology
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