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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 17h

Missed our last MEE live? Watch it now!

In our latest workshop, we were joined by author Ata Kalirad, who talked through their recent paper and illustrated how EcoGt can be used to simulate ecological competition on various topologies.

Watch the video and find the paper below📃

MEE live! A hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory

In this workshop, Ata Kalirad illustrates how the EcoGt can be used to simulate ecological competition on various topologies — including complete graphs, random graphs, small-world graphs — as well…

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MostlyWaxbills @mostlywaxbills.bsky.social · 1d

The decades-long habit of measuring animal sound frequencies in hertz biases #bioacoustics research.
Part of the solution is very simple: do not measure animal sounds in Hz, measure them in logHz instead.

New article @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Let's stop measuring animal sound frequencies in hertz

Research on the function and evolution of animal sounds typically analyses sound frequency on a linear scale (Hz), despite the perception and modulation of sound frequency by animals being better ...

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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 1d

Our latest podcast series 'Included in Nature with Clare Rishbeth' explores the barriers to nature inclusion for various communities and the ways in which we can overcome them 🌱

This discussion is based on four reports deposited in Applied Ecology Resources 📚

Listen here 👇
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 1d

📖Published📖

Check out our new research article by Santoro et al. 👉 Essential tools but overlooked bias: Artificial intelligence and citizen science classification affect camera trap data 📸 🌍 🧪

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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 6d

Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 2d

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 2d

📖Published📖

The fluxible #rstats package provides tools to process #ecosystem gas fluxes in a fully #reproducible workflow, while offering full flexibility to the user 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 3d

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Deschamps et al. introduce CAMELIA (Community Assemblage Modelling macroEcoLogically Informed with AI), a neural network framework integrating species distribution data with community constraints to improve biodiversity predictions 👇

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CAMELIA workflow for model training: Stacked species distributions from S-SDMs trained with community observations and environmental variables, and community indices (species richness (SR), community mean (CM) and community standard deviation (CSTD) of various traits) are given to the multilayer perceptron. The parameters of the multilayer perceptron are then optimized by minimizing the final combined loss function that compares predicted species presence probabilities and community indices with observed community values. BCE and MSLE correspond to the binary cross-entropy loss function and the mean squared logarithmic error.

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 4d

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Torres-Tamayo introduce a novel method using statistical shape modelling (SSM) to predict missing skeletal morphology from partially preserved hominin pelvic remains 🦴

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Mean shape from the modern human and chimpanzee model (SSM 2). (a) The (semi-)landmarks defined as predictors (red) and predicted (turquoise) in our models. (b) The anatomical region in our model used as a predictor (red) and the predicted region (turquoise).

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 5d

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Sanczuk et al. present a novel means of performing a quasi-continuous quantification of microclimatic temperatures in space and over time using fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing 🌡️ Read more here 👇

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 6d

We're thrilled to announce our first-ever webinar!

@hollietree.bsky.social & @pettorelli.bsky.social will be joining us to discuss how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change 🌍🧪

Learn more & register for free here 👇
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 6d

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Using a novel method to visualize in situ underwater sound, Dantzker et al. have developed a technique that combines visualizations of spatial audio with concentric 360° video recordings 📹 🌊 Read more here 👇

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Ascribing sounds to individuals. The UPAC-360 can isolate which individual is the sound source in a coral reef. Here, we identified at least 121 individuals from six species, including 58 Stegastes partitus, greater than 53 Azurina multilineata, 1 Lactophrys bicaudalis, 1 Halichoeres garnoti, 2 Canthigaster rostrata, and 5 from the family Gobiidae. The 3 dB zone overlaps only one individual S. partitus. The region of the powermap around the focal individual has been removed to show the fish, but at this moment it is moving quickly so the visual ID is based on video before and after the soniferous event (Movie S1). The bottom left shows the Blue Robotics housing for the recorder.

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Our October Issue is now out!🚨

This cover image shows a close-up of an adult male jackdaw (Corvus monedula), part of a long-term monitoring population in Lleida, Catalunya, Spain 🐦‍⬛ 🌍 🧪

Find out more about the cover image and read the whole issue here 👇
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Albert Morera @albert-morera.bsky.social · 8d

Hackathon @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social completed 🧑‍💻 Amazing to share with so many people in such a unique environment

We’ve been testing whether published data/code are truly reproducible. +1200 papers reviewed. Now waiting for the results 👀 and hoping it helps move towards a more open science

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks everyone for attending the hack-a-thon!

Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 8d

Great two days of BES data/code hack-a-thon. 111 people (in person + online) collating data and chatting about open science. Big take homes so far: people ❤️ open science; data/code archiving means different things to different people; we can make some simple improvements with big impacts!

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 8d

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Roemer et al. propose a comprehensive evaluation of the limits and possibilities of passive acoustic monitoring of bats, identifying knowledge gaps and practice barriers, and highlighting novel ideas that may revolutionise practices🦇👇

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Influence of weather conditions, prey size and abundance, flight height and dialects on population trends, habitat selection and the spatial distribution inferred from bat acoustic activity obtained with passive acoustic monitoring. The dashed arrows represent possible biases that should be investigated in the future.

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Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 24d

📣 New Publication!

Biodiversity supports functions that drive ecosystem services and disservices. Measuring these functions is key to evaluating conservation strategies and land use change.

We present methods to quantify ecosystem functions using the sentinel approach:
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Pieter De Frenne @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social · 17d

Fibre-optic cables (also used for internet) can be used as a novel means of continuous measurements of #forest #microclimate in space and over time, at 25-cm spatial and 1-minute temporal resolution

New paper @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social:
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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 13d

My first PhD paper is out!
It describes the fluxible #rstats package, a toolbox to process and quality check #ecosystem #gasfluxes in a reproducible and automated way.

@unibergen.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @li-corenv.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

fluxible: An R package to process ecosystem gas fluxes from closed‐loop chambers in an automated and reproducible way

Measuring ecosystem gas fluxes is crucial to understanding the dynamics of ecosystem water and energy cycling. A common method to measure ecosystem gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O) and to compare experi...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 9d

📖Published📖

Described in their applications paper, Missik et al. developed ECODATA, a suite of open-source tools to support exploration, analysis and visualization of animal movements and dynamic geospatial data layers 🐺 🦌 👇

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Overview of the ECODATA Apps (blue boxes) in relation to the types of geospatial information they process. The apps can be used independently to visualize and manipulate data in preparation for geospatial analyses. The case studies detail workflows that use the apps together to create movement data animations, and that use these animations to support wildlife management.

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 10d

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Yang et al. present a pluralistic approach that aims to quantify heterogeneity by introducing complementary metrics, each of which decomposes heterogeneity into within-study, between-study and between-species (species and phylogenetic) variances. Read more here👇

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 12d

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Chen et al. comprehensively evaluate the efficacy of invertebrate metabarcoding primers in (e)DNA-based biodiversity assessments in both freshwater and marine habitats 🪳 🧬 Find out more here 👇

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 12d

Check out our new blog post!

Find out more about how Pieter Arnold and his team set-up active heating chambers in extreme field conditions, that could both stably and effectively heat plants ⛺ 🌱 ⛰️

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 13d

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In their new research article, Williams et al. conducted extensive simulations to evaluate modelling approaches for handling dependence in effect sizes and sampling errors in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 14d

Last chance to sign up to our MEE Live on friday!

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