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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Karen Dyson and Kayla Aburida When we first started using soil environmental DNA (eDNA) to understand how sustainable farming practices affect biodiversity, we thought the hard parts would be in the lab or the analysis. We were wrong. Instead, one of the biggest challenges came much earlier: in the field when collecting data. Soil eDNA is patchy, shaped by microhabitats, plant cover, &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Liliana Silva Why we developed this automation framework Observing animal behaviour is one of the most widely used methods in ecology. But anyone who has spent hours viewing video footage knows how quickly behavioural analysis becomes overwhelming. A single nest camera can generate hundreds of hours of recordings, and turning those videos into behavioural data often means endless manual annotation. As a &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 11:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Jonathan Syme Picture this idyllic scene: You’re on a research vessel that is steadily making its way through the vast blue sea, surveying back and forth along a set of transect lines, its track recorded by a GPS. Through your binoculars, you see a column of spray, an arching back, a fluke that rises high above the water, then disappears. You call &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lost in taxonomic sampling? Maybe you should consider having some SOUPE!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harriet Rhodes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 10:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Nyniane Steinkampf&#8211;Pellecuer, Idriss Pelletan and Pauline Provini We are two PhD students and a researcher at the MECADEV lab of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris. As part of our research on birds’ evolution, we study the functional morphology of their organs to understand how their shape is linked to their function, and how they evolved. Due to the size of &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Testing Evolutionary Ecological and Community Ecological Outcomes with Matrix Projection Using R Package adapt3</title>
		<link>https://methodsblog.com/2026/05/20/testing-evolutionary-ecological-and-community-ecological-outcomes-with-matrix-projection-using-r-package-adapt3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Richard P. Shefferson, University of Tokyo Matrix projection has become widely used by population ecologists to analyze and predict the behavior of wild populations of plants and animals… and sometimes even other, odder organisms (Salguero-Gómez et al. 2015; Salguero‐Gómez et al. 2016). Over the last few decades, the size and complexity of these models have increased dramatically, with matrix dimensions now ranging &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can extinction risk be reliably estimated even with limited data?</title>
		<link>https://methodsblog.com/2026/05/14/can-extinction-risk-be-reliably-estimated-even-with-limited-data/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[khanyilenomthi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Hiroshi Hakoyama. Rethinking extinction probability as a conservation endpoint Thinking about conservation in terms of species extinction as an endpoint underpins how priorities are set in the IUCN Red List and CITES. At their core, these frameworks are about deciding which populations or taxa should be prioritised for conservation effort. Yet Population Viability Analysis (PVA), which aims to quantify extinction probability itself, &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>A longer read on microbes: Why bigger fragments matter in Earth’s harshest habitats</title>
		<link>https://methodsblog.com/2026/05/13/a-longer-read-on-microbes-why-bigger-fragments-matter-in-earths-harshest-habitats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Xi Peng When I first started analysing metagenomic data from cold seeps and hot springs, I didn’t expect to spend quite so much time staring at confusing lines of code and fragmented sequences. Yet these digital traces—broken fragments of DNA scattered across a matrix of microbial complexity—hold the fingerprints of life in Earth’s most extreme habitats. In this work, we developed an &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>How to avoid a desk-rejection because your manuscript is the wrong type</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harriet Rhodes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Dr. Aaron M. Ellison, Executive Editor at Methods in Ecology and Evolution You’ve worked for months, sometimes years, on developing and testing a new method, and spent a similar amount of time writing the manuscript. It’s finally finished and after navigating the online submission system and uploading and proofing your files, you press the “submit my manuscript” button. Back in the Dark &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)?</title>
		<link>https://methodsblog.com/2026/04/30/what-is-acoustic-spatial-capture-recapture-ascr/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harriet Rhodes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Ané Cloete What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)? Estimating how many animals live in a given area is one of the most fundamental challenges in conservation. For species that are easy to see such as large mammals on open plains, for example, this is manageable. But for cryptic species that hide from view, counting them directly is often impossible. This is where &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Organising the BES Data and Code Hackathon</title>
		<link>https://methodsblog.com/2026/04/16/organising-the-bes-data-and-code-hackathon/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harriet Rhodes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Natalie Cooper, MEE Senior Editor In my last blog post I wrote generally about why and how to organise a hackathon. To help make those instructions a little clearer, below I provide an example from the BES Data and Code Hackathon we ran 29th-30th September 2025. Note that technically this was really a datathon rather than a hackathon! We followed the outline &#8230;]]></description>
		
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