Virtual Issue: Ecological Statistics are Methods too

Methods in Ecology and Evolution has been publishing papers on statistical ecology since its inception in 2010. Since the last International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) meeting, we have published many more papers, of an increasing quality and influence. This Virtual Issue brings together some of those papers - but also misses out many more that will be just as interesting.

The papers chosen show the range of statistical issues that have been covered in MEE: movement ecology, distributions, abundance, dynamics, capture/recapture, as well as papers on how we should interpret our results. MEE also publishes applications, which outline recent developments in implementations of methods, for example new software and packages, and a couple of these are included in this Virtual Issue.

Bob O’Hara, Senior Editor