The winner of @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social l Robert May Prize 2025 is Jenna Kline, @jennakline.bsky.social
Jenna’s paper provides a comprehensive overview and field guide for using edge‑AI drones to study animal group behaviour in real time.
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🙌We are pleased to announce the winners of the journal prizes for papers published in 2025!
The prize is awarded to early-career researchers for their excellent contribution to research across the breadth of ecology.
See the winners below 👇
Find out more about Jenna and her paper here 👉 buff.ly/nDh6OY0
Read all the papers shortlisted for the prize here 👉 buff.ly/2vXmzb4
Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an early career author. The award is named in honour of the former BES President who was the leading theoretical ecologist of his generation (3/4)
“I hope this recognition will encourage other junior researchers to pursue research at the intersection of ecology and computer science - it's challenging but absolutely worth pursuing” (2/4)
We are excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Robert May prize is Jenna Kline!🏆️
@jennakline.bsky.social and her colleagues set a benchmark for future work using autonomous drones powered by edge AI to collect and analyse behavioural data of group living animals in real time🦒 (1/4)
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A Bayesian classification model to reconstruct lifetime movement patterns of riverine fish using environmental tracers
The simulation allows uncertainty to be incorporated at each life stage🖥️ 🧪 🌍
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🖥️ New blog post!
What a national marine dataset taught us about the power of quality control and collaboration🐠
Brooke Bond discusses the challenges one faces when dealing with large datasets📖
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Jeremy Pustilnik and Genevieve Rios discuss their new tool used in natural history specimen 3D digitization: The new COPIS framework, which combines robotics and photogrammetry🐒 🖥️
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We have now published our first workflow article!
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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adapt3: Adaptive dynamics and community projection in the R programming language🖥️
Package adapt3 can be used to study the nature and stability of ecological interactions, the mechanics of natural selection and even speciation🌍 🌳
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fastbioclim: An R package for creating custom-time bioclimatic and derived environmental summary variables🖥️
fastbioclim enhances the quality of environmental data for more temporally accurate ecological and biogeographical studies🌍
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In this study, authors propose a new approach for measuring directional root placement in competitive set-ups, with two methods that calculate the centroid of the root system without measuring overall root length 📏🌍 🧪
Read the article here👇
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution has a new special feature that is open for proposals!
Decision tree for the selection of the most suitable materials for passive sampling based on different matrices, targets and study conditions.
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Passive environmental DNA sampling: A review of current practices, limitations and future directions for biodiversity monitoring 🧬
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In this study, authors show how camera-traps can be used to infer patterns of both activity and habitat use by deconfounding these effects 📸🌍🧪
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We're still looking for proposals to our new special feature 🔎
Deadline for proposals is the 1st may, with papers expected to be submitted by the end October 2026!
Watch the recording of our latest MEE live! 📺️
In this webinar, Dr. Ludmilla Figueiredo and Dr. Viktoriia Radchuk introduced the R package estar.
Keep an eye out for our next MEE live! 🌟
A comparison between the information extracted from species-based events and acoustic indices, and whether they are able to address common approaches that lead to ecological insights on biodiversity research.
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Are acoustic indices useful for biodiversity research? Read this recent persepctive article on the topic here👇
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In this study, authors propose DeepMaxent, a new species distribution models method for presence-only data that generalizes Maxent to multi-species deep neural networks with a direct relationship to a Poisson count loss 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇
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We present an analytical framework for ecosystem service (ES) upscaling that incorporates spatial interactions between landscape properties, which determine ES supply 🌍 🧪 Find out more here 👇
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Check out our new perspective article 👉 A suitable approach to resource allocation in biosecurity when considering dependent benefits and costs
Read the article at the link below!
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3D laser scanning is a cornerstone of modern forest and ecological research. Here, authors propose a new noise compression method designed to better distinguish noise from information-bearing points within MLS-point clouds 🌍 🧪 🌳
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This is the first study to explore automated fish abundance counting in a DOV setup. In this proof of concept, authors proposed three automated fish counting methods that used detections derived from a deep learning model as an input 🐟️
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New blog post!🚨
The BIEN working group give the story behind their new paper "BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data"🪴🌍 🧪
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Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction
This paper offers a scalable, cost-effective tool for identifying species interactions, biomonitoring and constructing trophic networks🌍🐐
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🗻 we're accepting proposals for a new Special Feature, "Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene", which will also be included in @funecology.bsky.social and @journalofecology.bsky.social
📩 submit your proposal before 17 May here: buff.ly/vBbRmgH
New blog post! 🚨
In the blog, @diandraduengen.bsky.social talks about her experience at the International Bioacoustics Society conference 2026 🔊
Read it here! 👇
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