Post provided by Katie Turlington I’m Katie Turlington, a soundscape ecologist and PhD candidate at the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University. My research explores how we can use sound to monitor freshwater ecosystems, which are incredibly diverse but often under-surveyed. I’ve spent the last few years working on rivers in South-East Queensland, trying to make…

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13.09.2025

10,000 Arthropods in a Hectare: What We Found Crawling, Flying, and Hiding in Panama’s Rainforest – Methods Blog

Post provided by Daniel Souto-Vilarós. I’m a molecular ecologist who currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah, with a long-standing obsession with biodiversity. While much of my work has focused on plant-pollinator interactions, this project took me down a very different path: into the leaf litter, soil, and night sky of…

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18.09.2025

Making heatwaves in the wild: lessons from extreme fieldwork – Methods Blog

Post provided by Pieter Arnold, Xuemeng Mu, James King We are a team of ecologists in Australia with keen interest in how plants and ecosystems will respond to climate change. Conducting research on the effects of forecasted climate change, and particularly extreme events like heatwaves, is extremely challenging to do in the field. We had…

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02.10.2025

Our October issue is out now! – Methods Blog

This issue contains the latest methods in ecology and evolution. Read to find out about this month’s featured articles and the article behind our cover! Featured Advancing causal inference in ecology: Pathways for biodiversity change detection and attribution Here, authors address key challenges of biodiversity change detection and conservative causal attribution and propose solutions to overcome barriers in (1) biodiversity and driver data…

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What’s That Sound? A New Way to Explore Freshwater Soundscapes – Methods Blog

10,000 Arthropods in a Hectare: What We Found Crawling, Flying, and Hiding in Panama’s Rainforest – Methods Blog

Making heatwaves in the wild: lessons from extreme fieldwork – Methods Blog

Our October issue is out now! – Methods Blog

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