Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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Managing plant viral epidemics – linking insect transmission and epidemic risk Post provided by Ruairí Donnelly, Israël Tankam, and Alison Scott-Brown Here in the Epidemiology and Modelling Group at the University of Cambridge, our work is driven by the need to secure food su…

Looking to understand, predict, and manage viral disease epidemics in crops like #cassava?🌱🦠📊 Check out the blog post introducing tools from Ruairí and Israël.
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Validating a low-cost alternative to body surface area estimation: Implications for energy budgets and scaling relationships of ectotherms 🦎 🐍

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Farm-scale Natural Capital Accounting: Unlocking the potential of natural capital to support sustainable agriculture🌽

This account provides farmers with information that could be used for sustainability reporting and the promotion of sustainable farm practices🚜

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Harnessing iEcology data to uncover invasive species behaviour

This paper demonstrates the application of iEcology to uncover novel insights into the behaviour of invasive species, such as dominance over the native species🦑

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I gave a talk on microbe-mediated carbon accrual in agri soils in the @bes-soilecogroup.bsky.social seminar series. A recording is available in the link below. @britishecologicalsociety.org

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A general method for detection and segmentation of terrestrial arthropods in images🪲

flatbug offers ecologists and practitioners a ready-to-use, efficient and accurate tool for arthropod monitoring that addresses common limitations of existing methods 👇️

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DImodelsMulti: Making Advanced DI Modelling Accessible. Post provided by Laura Byrne. I am a researcher at University College Cork, Ireland, working with statistical models for use with biodiversity data. My research is driven by my interests in sustain…

New blog post! 🚨

Laura Byrne presents DImodelsMulti, an R package that complements and extends the previously published DImodels. It enables the fitting of multivariate or repeated measures DI models in a user-friendly way 🌍 🧪

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How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready?

Join our webinar as Dr. Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸

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Our march issue is out now!

This month's cover image shows a grey long-eared bat, a cryptic species typical from Central and Southern Europe, photographed in the Rodes Monastery (Catalonia), where you can find one of the biggest maternity colonies 🦇

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Welcoming our 2026 Associate Editor Mentees! Journal of Applied Ecology offers a two‑year mentoring scheme that helps early career researchers build practical experience as Associate Editors. Each mentee works closely with a Senior Editor and…

We're thrilled to announce that we have 7 new Associate Editor mentees joining us! 📚🧪

Over the next 2 years, they will be mentored by a Senior Editor to develop their knowledge of the peer review process and handle manuscripts 💡🌎

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Introducing TropiCam-AI: A taxonomically flexible automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap data 🐦️ 🌍 📸

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Individualised niches in a variable environment—Consequences for environmental change responses

This framework can be extended further to niche choice and evolution including all processes that can change the match between individuals and their environment 🌍 🌳

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Managing plant viral epidemics – linking insect transmission and epidemic risk Post provided by Ruairí Donnelly, sraël Tankam, and Alison Scott-Brown Here in the Epidemiology and Modelling Group at the University of Cambridge, our work is driven by the need to secure food sup…

New blog post! 🚨

Find out more about the EpiPvr package, a new tool to better predict virus risk 🌱 🦟

@camplantepidem.bsky @camplantsci.bsky.social 🌍 🧪

📖 Publihsed!

Multi-barcoding-based species identification using a hierarchical attention network with staged curriculum learning🖥️ 🌐

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We’re at the Researcher to Reader conference with @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! #R2RConf

Looking forward to the next two days discussing all things scholarly publishing 📚

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pyecoacc: A python package for supervised learning of behavioural modes from accelerometer data 🌍

An open-source Python package for supervised learning of behavioural modes from accelerometer data 👇️

Integrating multi-gene barcodes with deep learning to classify snails Post provided by Bin Ye Gastropoda animals, such as land, freshwater, and sea snails, have diverse forms and unique life histories, making them an excellent window for exploring biodiversity. In th…

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Find out more about SnailBaLLsp, an intelligent classification model, aiming to use innovative algorithms to solve traditional classification problems and better serve species identification and evolutionary research with DNA data 🐌🧬

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The persistent advantage of model-based phylogenetic methods for single-trait prediction🌍 🖥️

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A short guide for effective field data collection Post provided by Faith Jones, Helen Spence-Jones, and Caroline Greiser Fieldwork is the foundation of ecological science. From observational and monitoring studies, to experiments done in complex r…

New blog post!!🚨

Faith Jones, Helen Spence-Jones, and Caroline Greiser talk through their new guide for field data collection 📃 🌱

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denim: An R package for deterministic compartmental models with flexible dwell-time distributions

denim helps build more realistic epidemiological models that provide more accurate projections🦠 🖥️

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The deadline for applying to be an Associate Editor has been extended to the 8th March!

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Reading the patterns: vegetation patterns reveal the fragility of dryland sites Post provided by Benoît Pichon When I first started working on dryland ecosystems in my PhD, I didn’t expect to spend quite so much time staring at black-and-white aerial photographs. Yet these sim…

New blog post!

Benoît Pichon talks about their recently published paper, presenting a new inverse‑modelling approach that uses a single snapshot of vegetation patterns to estimate how close dryland ecosystems are to desertification 🌵 🌍 🧪

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