Head over to the methods blog and check out our new post! Read about how Daniel Souto-Vilarós and his team processed arthropod bulk-collections from seven different protocols with DNA metabarcoding 🐛🐜👇

With #PeerReviewWeek coming to an end, we’re highlighting our previous blog post about collaborative peer review 👥 We believe collaborative #PeerReview can be fantastic training for Early Career Researchers and encourage it across the BES journals! 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/xlrelhgxnq

📖Published📖 In their new review article, Schrodt et al. identify the challenges and decisions involved in detecting and attributing biodiversity change and provide an overview of suitable methods based on available data and specific research questions 📰 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/9YwaWx9

📖Published📖 Check out this new research article 👉 Quantifying the correlation between variance components: An extension to the double-hierarchical generalised linear model 🧪 🌍 Read the full article here 👇

New blog post alert 🚨 Katie Turlington talks about her teams new protocol to identify sound-types in ecoacoustic recordings using beta acoustic indices and nested clustering 🔊🌍 🧪 Find the full article in the thread below and blog post here 👇 buff.ly/y8iI7dI

📖Published📖 In this paper, Sajtovich et al. outlines the technical specifications for BRUVS-Lite, an open-source, user-friendly, cost-effective stereo-Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems with integrated lights engineered to deliver high-quality underwater imagery 📹 🌊 buff.ly/1bqCRRx

With #PeerReviewWeek coming to an end, we want to say a big thank you to all our reviewers over the last year! 🌟 We really appreciate the time and effort our reviewers put in- we wouldn't be able to publish quality research without you! List of reviewers: buff.ly/tnaFiq8

📖Published📖 Our new review article by East et al. provides the first comprehensive practical framework for optimizing biological specimen imaging for computer vision applications 🦋 🌍 🧪 Find out more here 👇 buff.ly/TjRPrvD

Check out our new blog post by Marçal Pou-Rossell! Marçal talks about his teams new centralised solar-powered Raspberry Pi system for automated animal observation and environmental monitoring 🐦‍⬛🌍 🧪 Find out more here 👇

🚨 Don't forget to sign up to our MEE live! next week 🚨 In this free online workshop, Ata Kalirad joins us to talk about their recent paper on Ecological Graph Theory, a method to simulate competition in structured populations 🌍 🧪 Find out more about the workshop and register 👇 buff.ly/o6opuoG

Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️ This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm

This year's winners have been announced for our ECR Reviewer Prize! 🏆🌎🧪 This #PeerReviewWeek, we're highlighting the vital role that many #ECRs play in #PeerReview. Find out more below 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/09/16/w...

📣 Sign up to our free online workshop! Explore the evolving landscape of biodiversity and nature reporting, and the challenges of applying these within complex international supply chains with Dr. Tara Garraty, Tunley Environmental, and Benedicta Bakpa, Bespak 🌎💡 Register here: buff.ly/o0GFgVZ

As part of peer review week, we want to highlight our blog post on the evolution and diversity of peer review. The post gives a great overview on double-anonymous and transparent peer review processes 📰 Read the post here 👉 buff.ly/s2gGIR7 #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025

Did you know that it's officially #PeerReviewWeek? 📑💭 Whether you're looking to learn more about #PeerReview for the first time or want to brush up on some best practice tips, check out our free guide below 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/eoffzyiudg

📖Published📖 Wang et al. present a novel spectrogram translation method using the pix2pix generative adversarial network (GAN) architecture to isolate and quantify target acoustic sources from real-world ecoacoustic data 🔊 🌍 🧪 Read the article here 👇

📖Published📖 Check out our new review article 👉 The crucial role of meshing in computational fluid dynamics simulations for organic geometries in paleobiology: Describing fluid dynamics performance through best practices 🦎 🌍 🧪

📖Published📖 Check out Furlaud et al. new perspective article 👉 State-and-transition simulation models: How can we use them to assess ecosystem condition and support nature markets 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/ynLOhtt

New blog post alert!🚨 Citizen scientist coders for wildlife conservation – a MoveApps story Find out more about the collaboration between the MoveApps team, academic ecologists and volunteer coders 👇 #move_apps #mpiab @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @moveapps.bsky.social buff.ly/56Wuiuc

📖Published📖 Pappalardo et al. developed taxon-specific confidence thresholds for eukaryotes at different taxonomic levels to optimize the accuracy of BLAST-based taxonomic assignments for metabarcoding 🧬 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

GECOT : a new tool to optimize connectivity New paper by François Hamonic presenting GECOT is out! Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Can air reveal the hidden life around us? 🌱🦉 A #PKUResearch team led by Dr. Yao Meng has developed a simple air eDNA sampler that captures biodiversity signals in just one day, reported as a cover article in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1111/2041... @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

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📖Published📖 In our new perspective article, Miao et al. explore the transformative potential of multimodal language models for biodiversity research and discusses several possible applications in biodiversity research 👇 buff.ly/m040OvA

Brand new paper about meshing in computational fluid dynamics simulations for organic geometries in paleobiology published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social offering both practical guidance and structured comparison of meshing techniques in #CFD ➡️https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70146

New paper published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! "Optimizing Image Capture for Computer Vision-Powered Taxonomic Identification and Trait Recognition of Biodiversity Specimens" is now online! A huge shout-out to all co-authors for bringing this vision to life. @imageomics.bsky.social

📖Published📖 Mononen et al. combine two different techniques, ensemble learning and movement-based background removal, to build a classifier for animal detection that needs only small training data. Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/vgqWzxY

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article 👉 Solving three core challenges in transient dynamics analysis of matrix population models 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/aYKNNCZ

📖Published📖 Kline et al. present a comprehensive summary of research in the AI-driven animal ecology (ADAE) field, which integrates data collection with automated computational analysis focused on aerial imagery for collective animal behaviour studies 🌍 🧪

🚨 Our September Issue is now out!🚨 This month's cover shows electrostatic dust cloth-based passive samplers as new airborne eDNA collection method! 🌷 Image credit: Sheng Li. Find out more and read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/ezetGfX

📖Published📖 Pou-Rossell et al. present a flexible, centralised approach for multi-unit animal observation and environmental monitoring based on single-board computers 💻 Check out the full article 👉 buff.ly/X6LRHwc Read the blog post 👉 buff.ly/YtYUJJ9

Register for the next MEE live! Ata Kalirad joins us to talk about their recently accepted paper on Ecological Graph Theory, a method to simulate competition in structured populations 🌍 🧪 Find out more about the online workshop and register here 👇 buff.ly/axWOiyl

📖Published📖 In this review paper, Ferrante and Lövei propose a standardised set of methods to monitor ecosystem functions that underpin ecosystem services and disservices 🌱 🌍 🧪 Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/2rAeHgq

Don't forget to register for our Hackathon event! We'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... Registration closes on the 15th September 🕤 Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/XTON0lV

📖Published📖 Check out our new review article 👉 Zygote survival functions: A critical systematisation 🥚 🌍 🧪 Read the full article here 👇

Did you know that @jappliedecology.bsky.social authors can now publish a Plain Language Summary alongside their final article? Plain Language Summaries help to make the latest ecological research more accessible to the wider public.

My first methods paper from postdoc—How to identify genomic adaptation to climate using a mechanistic model of evolution. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖Published📖 Raby et al. provide a comprehensive, practical guide for designing and conducting experiments to measure critical thermal limits, with an emphasis on CTmax 🌍 🧪 👇 buff.ly/iZN6Xdg

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article 👉 Adaptive management under structural uncertainty: A linear opinion pool approach to expanding the model set 🌍 🧪 Read the full article here 👇

📖Published📖 Edwards et al. develop a mixture model approach for semi-continuous sampling data. Having developed the theoretical framework, they present an example application to marine demersal fish sampling data collected off the coast of New Zealand 🐟 🧪 🌍

📖Published📖 Forrest et al. present deepSSF, an approach to fit and predict animal movement data using deep learning 🐃 🌍 🧪 Read the full article here 👇 buff.ly/BWQ3Oni

🌿We are looking for proposals for Grime Reviews series 5: Protected and restored grassy ecosystems as climate solutions.🌾 Proposals are due 1 September. Read more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

📖Published📖 Hung et al. introduce the use of optimal transport distances to quantify ecological network dissimilarity and functionally equivalent species between networks. Read the full article here 👇 buff.ly/L3n9Uvv

🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live! 👨‍🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal. 🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim 🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k

⏰Time is running out to submit your proposal for our cross-journal Special Feature Novel communities in response to global change! 🌏 Proposal submissions close 31 August👉 buff.ly/2av5bBh

📖Published📖 Ipek et al. introduce a novel model to characterize dominance hierarchies using a sequential pairwise relationship model called Animal Dominance Network (AniDomNet) 👇 buff.ly/EdjFKuN

📖Published📖 Price et al. present an open-source easy-to-use workflow, using zebras as an example, that can detect individuals in their natural environment and automatically infer their atomic scale behaviours of standing, grazing, walking and running 🦓 buff.ly/z4qyIyD