Measuring functional connectivity using butterflies
Gary Powney and Tom Oliver explain how using data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme they can assess functional connectivity - the permeability o...
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Measuring the importance of species to ecosystems
Nicholas Gotelli and Fernando T. Maestre discuss simple randomization tests for quantifying the effect of species on ecosystem variables, and the use ...
Heating up the forest
Shannon Pelini demonstrates experimental equipment designed to test the effects of warmer climates on forest ecosystems - and, particuarly, arthropods...
Studying deepwater animals with TrapCam
Brett Favaro, Simon Fraser University and Vancouver Island University, demonstrates the construction of TrapCam apparatus: an inexpensive camera syste...
Estimating seed predation rates
Adam Davis demonstrates how field experiments and statistical models can can enable the extrapolation of long-term seed predation rates from short-ter...
Integrating ecology into macroevolutionary research
On the 9th of March, 2011, Methods in Ecology and Evolution sponsored this symposium with over 200 delegates and 12 speakers, held at the Zoological S...
The impact of sampling with replacement
Gurutzeta discusses the impact of partial occupancy on such studies, highlighting the necessity of a careful understanding of a system before deciding...
Modelling tick questing abundance
Fraser demonstrates that the Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT) may be applied to non-nested models by comparison of competing models, through comparison of ...
Unified analysis of ecological niche overlap
Shane explains the need for new indices to combine data from many different studies, allowing the creation of composite measures of mean niche overlap...
Analogue modelling of the terrestrial carbon cycle
Martin, Alexandru and Dennis discuss the need for a broad spectrum of approaches in understanding the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and demon...