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		<title>Make insect metabarcoding quantitative? Challenge accepted.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Ela Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht The journey from scepticism to abundance estimates When I moved to Sweden in 2019 to start a postdoc, I entered a completely new research field. My background was in evolutionary biology, but I knew very little about DNA metabarcoding (identifying many species at once by sequencing barcode DNA from mixed samples). I was joining a project that was developing methods &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Aaron Lee Complicated instruments and simple solutions It was an abnormally warm and balmy December in Minnesota, and Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares and I were in the lab. The lights were off, blinds were closed, and we had fashioned a makeshift stand to hold a large tungsten halogen lightbulb, angled perfectly to shine into the long fiber optic cable of a spectrometer connected &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>From pattern to process: estimating species interactions and driver-species relationships from count data</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biotic Interactions]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Quinn Asena Uncovering signals from the past Understanding interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment, has been a cornerstone of ecology as long as we have been busying ourselves with the lives of other species. How do plants and animals facilitate or compete with each other? How do they respond to the continuous challenge of changing climates or new neighbors? &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Welcoming new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following an open call for applicants at the beginning of 2026, we are pleased to welcome 44 new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The researchers joining us span 18 different countries. We are really delighted to have further expanded the expertise on our board so that we can continue to promote the development of new methods in ecology and evolution. Welcome aboard! &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Yannek Käber and Maximilian Pichler We met at YOMOS, a workshop for early-career researchers and young modelers in ecology supported by the German Society for Ecology, and we came at modeling from opposite ends. Yannek builds dynamic forest models, which are mechanistic models that integrate decades of ecological reasoning about how trees grow, compete, and die. Max builds machine learning models for &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Blog post provided by Hubert A. Szczygieł Origins Back in 2022, I was in Panama working on landscape-scale biodiversity monitoring. The system I was testing included a lot of standard approaches – for example trail cameras for mammals, point counts and passive acoustic monitoring for birds, and Gentry transects for trees. However, I realized that none of the standard insect monitoring methodologies work for large-scale &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Forking anatomy: borrowing software’s best idea to build 3D atlases together</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harriet Rhodes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by A. Murat Maga Picture a graduate student who has just spent eighty hours tracing the individual bones of a fish skull, slice by slice, through a high-resolution microCT scan. The result is a beautiful, richly labelled 3D dataset. And then? Too often it lands on a hard drive, or gets flattened into a static 3D model that no one else can edit, &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Christopher Hemingson Close your eyes and picture a predation event. Personally, I default to the Planet Earth series’ “Mountains” episode, in which a snow leopard acrobatically chases a mountain goat across near-vertical cliffs in an adrenaline-inducing pursuit. While iconic, predation sequences like this one generally represent the minority. More often than not, predation events occur on the order of split seconds – &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harriet Rhodes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animal identification]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by András Zábó Just imagine&#8230; You&#8217;re all sitting excitedly around the monitor, watching the video captured by the drone. This is the first time you&#8217;ve tested the complete monitoring system in the national park&#8230; Your drones had already been capable of autonomously finding, detecting, and tracking zebras, but you had never flown drones that were also capable of identifying individual zebras&#8230; And both &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why we built a new approach to field sampling for soil eDNA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harriet Rhodes]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[eDNA]]></category>
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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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