Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Generalizing hierarchical and variation partitioning in multiple regression and canonical analyses using the rdacca.hp R package487
ENMeval 2.0: Redesigned for customizable and reproducible modeling of species’ niches and distributions289
geomorph v4.0 and gmShiny: Enhanced analytics and a new graphical interface for a comprehensive morphometric experience282
Predicting into unknown space? Estimating the area of applicability of spatial prediction models189
Methods for testing publication bias in ecological and evolutionary meta‐analyses159
Redundancy analysis: A Swiss Army Knife for landscape genomics131
Improving Landsat predictions of rangeland fractional cover with multitask learning and uncertainty114
Broad‐scale applications of the Raspberry Pi: A review and guide for biologists112
Towards a more balanced combination of multiple traits when computing functional differences between species109
rTPC and nls.multstart: A new pipeline to fit thermal performance curves in r96
A deep active learning system for species identification and counting in camera trap images91
SlicerMorph: An open and extensible platform to retrieve, visualize and analyse 3D morphology89
Machine learning and deep learning—A review for ecologists87
Deep learning as a tool for ecology and evolution85
The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography79
Generalized hidden Markov models for phylogenetic comparative datasets76
Outstanding challenges and future directions for biodiversity monitoring using citizen science data71
dartR v2: An accessible genetic analysis platform for conservation, ecology and agriculture71
On the measurement of microclimate70
Unbiased population heterozygosity estimates from genome‐wide sequence data70
A practical guide to question formation, systematic searching and study screening for literature reviews in ecology and evolution66
Automated detection of wildlife using drones: Synthesis, opportunities and constraints62
Autocorrelation‐informed home range estimation: A review and practical guide62
Spatial thinning and class balancing: Key choices lead to variation in the performance of species distribution models with citizen science data55
The Flora Incognita app – Interactive plant species identification53
Estimating forest above‐ground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning: Current status and future directions51
spOccupancy: An R package for single‐species, multi‐species, and integrated spatial occupancy models51
An assessment of minimum sequence copy thresholds for identifying and reducing the prevalence of artefacts in dietary metabarcoding data51
ubms: An R package for fitting hierarchical occupancy and N‐mixture abundance models in a Bayesian framework49
Acoustic indices perform better when applied at ecologically meaningful time and frequency scales48
ALPACA: A fast and accurate computer vision approach for automated landmarking of three‐dimensional biological structures47
track2KBA: An R package for identifying important sites for biodiversity from tracking data47
Measuring temporal change in alpha diversity: A framework integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity and the iNEXT.3D standardization46
Meta‐analysis of primary producer amino acid δ15N values and their influence on trophic position estimation45
flexsdm: An r package for supporting a comprehensive and flexible species distribution modelling workflow45
A new joint species distribution model for faster and more accurate inference of species associations from big community data45
Navigating the temporal continuum of effective population size45
Phylogenetically aligned component analysis43
RevGadgets: An R package for visualizing Bayesian phylogenetic analyses from RevBayes43
aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation43
Hidden Markov models: Pitfalls and opportunities in ecology42
Replication in field ecology: Identifying challenges and proposing solutions42
Robust ecological analysis of camera trap data labelled by a machine learning model42
rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back42
The potential and practice of arboreal camera trapping41
Novel methods for spatial prioritization with applications in conservation, land use planning and ecological impact avoidance39
Defining and evaluating predictions of joint species distribution models39
Permutation tests for hypothesis testing with animal social network data: Problems and potential solutions39
Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices39
scikit‐maad: An open‐source and modular toolbox for quantitative soundscape analysis in Python38
A standardisation framework for bio‐logging data to advance ecological research and conservation38
The Australian Acoustic Observatory38
Unifying individual differences in personality, predictability and plasticity: A practical guide37
Survey coverage, recording duration and community composition affect observed species richness in passive acoustic surveys36
metabaR: An r package for the evaluation and improvement of DNA metabarcoding data quality36
Phylogenetic multilevel meta‐analysis: A simulation study on the importance of modelling the phylogeny36
Unsupervised acoustic classification of individual gibbon females and the implications for passive acoustic monitoring36
phenofit: An R package for extracting vegetation phenology from time series remote sensing35
PICT: A low‐cost, modular, open‐source camera trap system to study plant–insect interactions35
The Purr‐fect Catch: Using accelerometers and audio recorders to document kill rates and hunting behaviour of a small prey specialist34
actel: Standardised analysis of acoustic telemetry data from animals moving through receiver arrays34
Spot size, distance and emissivity errors in field applications of infrared thermography34
The unmarked R package: Twelve years of advances in occurrence and abundance modelling in ecology33
Detection dogs in nature conservation: A database on their world‐wide deployment with a review on breeds used and their performance compared to other methods33
Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data32
Analysing economic costs of invasive alien species with the invacost r package32
The power of forecasts to advance ecological theory32
Including intraspecific trait variability to avoid distortion of functional diversity and ecological inference: Lessons from natural assemblages32
Convergence assessment for Bayesian phylogenetic analysis using MCMC simulation32
ForestScanner: A mobile application for measuring and mapping trees with LiDAR‐equipped iPhone and iPad32
Existing and emerging uses of drones in restoration ecology31
graph4lg: A package for constructing and analysing graphs for landscape genetics in R30
Nearest neighbour distance matching Leave‐One‐Out Cross‐Validation for map validation30
An evaluation of platforms for processing camera‐trap data using artificial intelligence30
Double‐tagging scores of seabirds reveals that light‐level geolocator accuracy is limited by species idiosyncrasies and equatorial solar profiles29
Overcoming the pitfalls of merging dietary metabarcoding into ecological networks29
Efficient, automated and robust pollen analysis using deep learning29
The consequences of checking for zero‐inflation and overdispersion in the analysis of count data29
Incorporating climate velocity into the design of climate‐smart networks of marine protected areas29
Determination of optimal flight altitude to minimise acoustic drone disturbance to wildlife using species audiograms29
Opportunities and risks in the use of drones for studying animal behaviour28
orchaRd 2.0: An R package for visualising meta‐analyses with orchard plots27
A workflow for accurate metabarcoding using nanopore MinION sequencing27
Interactions in statistical models: Three things to know26
Fine‐tuning biodiversity assessments: A framework to pair eDNA metabarcoding and morphological approaches26
Removing the bad apples: A simple bioinformatic method to improve loci‐recovery in de novo RADseq data for non‐model organisms26
TaxoNERD: Deep neural models for the recognition of taxonomic entities in the ecological and evolutionary literature26
A model selection approach to structural equation modelling: A critical evaluation and a road map for ecologists26
AIDE: Accelerating image‐based ecological surveys with interactive machine learning26
Plant biodiversity assessment through soil eDNA reflects temporal and local diversity25
Animal social networks: Towards an integrative framework embedding social interactions, space and time25
A roadmap for sampling and scaling biological nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems25
Identifying flow modules in ecological networks using Infomap25
Congruence of local ecological knowledge (LEK)‐based methods and line‐transect surveys in estimating wildlife abundance in tropical forests24
Study becomes insight: Ecological learning from machine learning24
Using acoustic indices in ecology: Guidance on study design, analyses and interpretation24
Marine artificial light at night: An empirical and technical guide24
Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa24
Internet on animals: Wi‐Fi‐enabled devices provide a solution for big data transmission in biologging23
A novel red‐edge spectral index for retrieving the leaf chlorophyll content23
State‐space models for ecological time‐series data: Practical model‐fitting23
A machine learning approach for classifying and quantifying acoustic diversity23
Machine learning applications in river research: Trends, opportunities and challenges22
Integrating automated acoustic vocalization data and point count surveys for estimation of bird abundance22
Biodiversity Soup II: A bulk‐sample metabarcoding pipeline emphasizing error reduction22
Neural ordinary differential equations for ecological and evolutionary time‐series analysis22
bdc: A toolkit for standardizing, integrating and cleaning biodiversity data22
Bulk arthropod abundance, biomass and diversity estimation using deep learning for computer vision22
Telemetry‐validated nitrogen stable isotope clocks identify ocean‐to‐estuarine habitat shifts in mobile organisms21
A cost‐effective video system for a rapid appraisal of deep‐sea benthic habitats: The Azor drift‐cam21
A spatial capture–recapture model to estimate call rate and population density from passive acoustic surveys21
A guide to sampling design for GPS‐based studies of animal societies21
Protein quantification in ecological studies: A literature review and empirical comparisons of standard methodologies21
Why did the animal turn? Time‐varying step selection analysis for inference between observed turning‐points in high frequency data21
A unifying framework for quantifying and comparing n‐dimensional hypervolumes20
Lights, camera, pliman! An R package for plant image analysis20
Extending Bayesian Elo‐rating to quantify the steepness of dominance hierarchies20
treetop: A Shiny‐based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists20
Revisiting animal photo‐identification using deep metric learning and network analysis20
Recent developments in empirical dynamic modelling20
ROBITT: A tool for assessing the risk‐of‐bias in studies of temporal trends in ecology20
Disentangling effects of climate and land use on biodiversity and ecosystem services—A multi‐scale experimental design20
Modelling the joint effects of body size and microclimate on heat budgets and foraging opportunities of ectotherms20
Ecological inference using data from accelerometers needs careful protocols20
mcera5: Driving microclimate models with ERA5 global gridded climate data20
Rcompadre and Rage—Two R packages to facilitate the use of the COMPADRE and COMADRE databases and calculation of life‐history traits from matrix population models20
Quantifying carbon in tree bark: The importance of bark morphology and tree size20
Optimizing aerial imagery collection and processing parameters for drone‐based individual tree mapping in structurally complex conifer forests19
Signalling in groups: New tools for the integration of animal communication and collective movement19
Integrated SDM database: Enhancing the relevance and utility of species distribution models in conservation management19
A novel and efficient method for wood–leaf separation from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds at the forest plot level19
Automated retrieval of information on threatened species from online sources using machine learning19
Continuous‐surface geographic assignment of migratory animals using strontium isotopes: A case study with monarch butterflies19
A Double machine learning trend model for citizen science data18
Identifying direct and indirect associations among traits by merging phylogenetic comparative methods and structural equation models18
Tracking the temporal dynamics of insect defoliation by high‐resolution radar satellite data18
Innovations in movement and behavioural ecology from camera traps: Day range as model parameter18
Validating ATLAS: A regional‐scale high‐throughput tracking system18
MEDI: Macronutrient Extraction and Determination from invertebrates, a rapid, cheap and streamlined protocol18
HumBug – An Acoustic Mosquito Monitoring Tool for use on budget smartphones18
Terrestrial laser scanning to reconstruct branch architecture from harvested branches18
Assessing the performance and efficiency of environmental DNA/RNA capture methodologies under controlled experimental conditions18
rphylopic: An R package for fetching, transforming, and visualising PhyloPic silhouettes18
Assimilate, process and analyse thermal dissipation sap flow data using the TREX r package18
Positional errors in species distribution modelling are not overcome by the coarser grains of analysis17
A practical guide to understanding and validating complex models using data simulations17
Infectious disease phylodynamics with occurrence data17
A primer on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs)17
Estimating species relative abundances from museum records17
Selection of sampling sites for biodiversity inventory: Effects of environmental and geographical considerations16
Domain‐specific neural networks improve automated bird sound recognition already with small amount of local data16
TAPER: Pinpointing errors in multiple sequence alignments despite varying rates of evolution16
Tree species classification from complex laser scanning data in Mediterranean forests using deep learning16
Advancing diet reconstruction in fish eye lenses16
Incorporating time into the traditional correlational distributional modelling framework: A proof‐of‐concept using the Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina15
Solving the sample size problem for resource selection functions15
Shannon entropy as a robust estimator of Zipf's Law in animal vocal communication repertoires15
The data double standard15
Conditional repeatability and the variance explained by reaction norm variation in random slope models15
poems: R package for simulating species' range dynamics using pattern‐oriented validation15
Physics‐based model to predict the acoustic detection distance of terrestrial autonomous recording units over the diel cycle and across seasons: Insights from an Alpine and a Neotropical forest15
Fast model‐based ordination with copulas15
Analysing individual 3D tree structure using the R package ITSMe15
Locating large insects using automated VHF radio telemetry with a multi‐antennae array14
Instrumental variable methods in structural equation models14
A standardised biologging approach to infer parturition: An application in large herbivores across the hider‐follower continuum14
Worth the effort? A practical examination of random effects in hidden Markov models for animal telemetry data14
SuessR: Regional corrections for the effects of anthropogenic CO2 on δ13C data from marine organisms14
An automatic classifier of bat sonotypes around the world14
maxnodf: An R package for fair and fast comparisons of nestedness between networks14
Integrated community occupancy models: A framework to assess occurrence and biodiversity dynamics using multiple data sources14
ngsLCA—A toolkit for fast and flexible lowest common ancestor inference and taxonomic profiling of metagenomic data14
A Raspberry Pi‐based camera system and image processing procedure for low cost and long‐term monitoring of forest canopy dynamics14
Population‐level inference for home‐range areas14
Automated classification of avian vocal activity using acoustic indices in regional and heterogeneous datasets14
Integrated population models poorly estimate the demographic contribution of immigration14
homologizer: Phylogenetic phasing of gene copies into polyploid subgenomes14
AnimalTA: A highly flexible and easy‐to‐use program for tracking and analysing animal movement in different environments13
Merging computational fluid dynamics and machine learning to reveal animal migration strategies13
Calibration chain transformation improves the comparability of organic hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope data13
Long‐term automated visual monitoring of Antarctic benthic fauna13
Tropical forests structure and diversity: A comparison of methodological choices13
allodb: An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots13
Classifying the unknown: Insect identification with deep hierarchical Bayesian learning13
CollembolAI, a macrophotography and computer vision workflow to digitize and characterize samples of soil invertebrate communities preserved in fluid13
Reflectance spectroscopy allows rapid, accurate and non‐destructive estimates of functional traits from pressed leaves13
Dynamic visualisation of million‐tip trees: The OneZoom project13
Stable isotope fingerprinting traces essential amino acid assimilation and multichannel feeding in a vertebrate consumer13
Slope and equilibrium: A parsimonious and flexible approach to model microclimate13
Biologically inspired herding of animal groups by robots13
Impact network analysis and the ina r package: Decision support for regional management interventions13
Assessing the predictive power of step selection functions: How social and environmental interactions affect animal space use13
MBHdesign: An R‐package for efficient spatial survey designs13
bRacatus: A method to estimate the accuracy and biogeographical status of georeferenced biological data13
Fuzzy quantification of common and rare species in ecological communities (FuzzyQ)12
Proton‐transfer‐reaction time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry (PTR‐TOF‐MS) as a tool for studying animal volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions12
BISoN: A Bayesian framework for inference of social networks12
Applying computer vision to digitised natural history collections for climate change research: Temperature‐size responses in British butterflies12
A framework for quantifying soundscape diversity using Hill numbers12
Analytical models for β‐diversity and the power‐law scaling of β‐deviation12
Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation‐informed weighting12
A critical examination of models of annual‐plant population dynamics and density‐dependent fecundity12
Sashimi: A toolkit for facilitating high‐throughput organismal image segmentation using deep learning12
OpenSoundscape: An open‐source bioacoustics analysis package for Python12
Migration Mapper: Identifying movement corridors and seasonal ranges for large mammal conservation12
Scale dependency of lidar‐derived forest structural diversity12
Estimating animal density for a community of species using information obtained only from camera‐traps12
A guide for developing a field research safety manual that explicitly considers risks for marginalized identities in the sciences11
Miniaturization eliminates detectable impacts of drones on bat activity11
A multimodel random forest ensemble method for an improved assessment of Chinese terrestrial vegetation carbon density11
Ten (mostly) simple rules to future‐proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences11
CMRnet: An r package to derive networks of social interactions and movement from mark–recapture data11
phenopype: A phenotyping pipeline for Python11
Rpadrino: An R package to access and use PADRINO, an open access database of Integral Projection Models11
Mapping forest leaf area density from multiview terrestrial lidar11
Developing nondestructive species‐specific tree allometry with terrestrial laser scanning11
Synthetic microbial consortia with programmable ecological interactions11
ISSRseq: An extensible method for reduced representation sequencing11
smartsnp, an r package for fast multivariate analyses of big genomic data11
Multispecies site occupancy modelling and study design for spatially replicated environmental DNA metabarcoding11
Acoustic animal identification using unsupervised learning11
Wind‐robust sound event detection and denoising for bioacoustics11
EasyDCP: An affordable, high‐throughput tool to measure plant phenotypic traits in 3D11
Building ecological networks with local ecological knowledge in hyper‐diverse and logistically challenging ecosystems11
Circular–linear copulae for animal movement data11
Linking fire behaviour and its ecological effects to plant traits, using FRaME in R11
EcoPhyloMapper: An r package for integrating geographical ranges, phylogeny and morphology11
Automated call detection for acoustic surveys with structured calls of varying length10
How to measure response diversity10
Estimating abundance based on time‐to‐detection data10
Non‐invasive surveys of mammalian viruses using environmental DNA10
Invasions of ecological communities: Hints of impacts in the invader's growth rate10
Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low‐rank network representation10
Continuous on‐board behaviour classification using accelerometry: A case study with a new GPS‐3G‐Bluetooth system in Pacific black ducks10
A framework for computer‐aided design and manufacturing of habitat structures for cavity‐dependent animals10
Global positioning with animal‐borne pressure sensors10
soundscape_IR: A source separation toolbox for exploring acoustic diversity in soundscapes10
Using ensemble methods to improve the robustness of deep learning for image classification in marine environments10
An optimisation approach for designing wildlife corridors with ecological and spatial considerations10
Balancing structural complexity with ecological insight in Spatio‐temporal species distribution models10
Deep learning and satellite imagery predict genetic diversity and differentiation10
Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution10
Understanding the reliability of citizen science observational data using item response models10
Flying high: Sampling savanna vegetation with UAV‐lidar10
Scaling up uncertain predictions to higher levels of organisation tends to underestimate change10
A novel fluorescence and DNA combination for versatile, long‐term marking of mosquitoes10
iPhenology: Using open‐access citizen science photos to track phenology at continental scale10
Acoustic species distribution models (aSDMs): A framework to forecast shifts in calling behaviour under climate change10
Dual‐fluorescence imaging and automated trophallaxis detection for studying multi‐nutrient regulation in superorganisms10
ENphylo: A new method to model the distribution of extremely rare species10
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