Methods in Ecology and Evolution

🚨 Our July Issue is now out!🚨 This months cover photo features TinyCO2, a high-performance, low-cost system for elevated CO2 experiments on field-grown plants. Read more about it, and all the articles in this months issues here 👇 buff.ly/SChXkAk

📖Published📖 In this review, authors discuss how a deeper knowledge of mosquito time-allocation, particularly resting periods, can enhance the effectiveness and deployment of classical vector control tools 🦟 buff.ly/8vn6ZZ7

📖Published📖 Here, authors present a flexible, non-phylogenetic model that captures key macroevolutionary processes—speciation, extinction and both passive and driven trait evolution—whilst accounting for physical and biological constraints 👇 buff.ly/AJn08D0

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article 👉 Assessing predictive accuracy of species abundance models in dynamic systems buff.ly/SlNP97o

Here, authors present a new method that integrates TIR drone photogrammetry with field-deployed OTMs to generate fine-scale, spatiotemporally complete landscapes (maps) of operative temperature for terrestrial organisms 🌡️👇 buff.ly/vngpJqN

📖Published📖 Authors investigated the impact of using different feature extraction and classification methods on the consistency of caller identity classification accuracy across 16 mammalian datasets 🔉 buff.ly/s1bbhqU

📖Published📖 Twig ages provide a powerful tool to sensitively track variation in local deer impacts over time and across sites and habitats 🦌 Find out more about how Waller extended the twig age method here 👇 buff.ly/ukHagiP

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article 👉 Inference of ecological networks and possibilistic dynamics based on Boolean networks from observations and prior knowledge 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/5w4c7S0

📖Published📖 Passive infrared sensors, used in camera traps, are ineffective for detecting insects. This study proposes an alternative 📸 Find out more here 👇 buff.ly/2FnUbw5

📖Published📖 Park et al. investigate the influence of spectral ranges on the performance of models estimating six tree functional traits 🌲 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/LR2XpCi

📖Published📖 This review synthesizes the current state of knowledge on soil fauna cryptic species identification, emphasizing specific molecular techniques as the most reliable/ precise method available for detecting cryptic diversity 🐛 buff.ly/l4cD4sj

📖Published📖 Utilizing the platform MoveApps, authors engaged 12 volunteer coders in a challenge to create tools for movement ecology, aimed at animal conservation. Read about their findings and insights here 👇 buff.ly/OasyDgU

📖Published📖 In our new practical tools article, Philip and Roberts present a novel artificial nestbox, the BeeBox, designed to support bumblebee nesting and enhance research, conservation and public engagement 🐝 📦 buff.ly/GzH2HgZ

✨New science, new ideas, new friends.  Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here!  Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world. Registration and abstract submission are now open for BES2025.…

📖Published📖 Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 Find the article here 👇 buff.ly/6zJRh9R

Our new paper in @MethodsEcolEvol presents a method (and R package) that extrapolates OTM data to the landscape at high resolution with the help of an IR drone. Build detailed operative thermal maps for any day/time that loggers were deployed! (more below) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

📖Published📖 Ben-Zvi et al. designed an underwater microscope that incorporates standard colour, epifluorescence, and variable chlorophyll a fluorescence imaging 🔬 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/bGdKr7l

📖Published📖 L'Hoste et al. propose a new underwater camera trap (UCT) offering the potential to improve the monitoring of freshwater organisms that are difficult to survey 🐸 Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/5IEn4B0

🦗 Meet a tiny bush-cricket from central Chile. Most are green, but this yellow male camouflages perfectly with the cestrum flowers it feeds on, showing how insects can play important roles in pollination. 📸Francisco Rivas

Our Special Feature with @MethodsEcolEvol is now available to read! It highlights the application of new technologies to help with pernicious applied problems, and also reflects on the promise and potential pitfalls of new emerging technologies 💡 buff.ly/dzVtFDG

📖Published📖 Higgins et al. present an R package, TTR.PGM, for modelling the ranges and dynamics of plant species using a well established plant growth model, the Thornley transport resistance model. 🌱 Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/Gt4I4Bo