Why do ecologists often get different answers to the same question? Depending on the study, for example, the relationship between biodiversi...

By Marc Cadotte and Caroline Tucker For their centennial, ESA is asking their members identify as the ecological milestones of the last ...

First, Will Pearse has done a great job of looking at the data behind the recent paper looking at declining R and p-values in ecology , and...

It is interesting that p -values still garner so much ink : it says something about how engrained and yet embattled they are. This month’s E...

P -values are an integral part of most scientific analyses, papers, and journals, and yet they come with a hefty list of concerns and criti...

Biomass is to runs as species is to player, and as ecologist is to Brad Pitt. Community ecology and major league baseball have a lot to le...

Disclaimer, this was modified from an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Applied Ecology . In the quest to understand species invasions, w...

In a recent paper in TREE, Ben Bolker (from the University of Florida) and colleagues describe the use of generalized linear mixed models ...

I am a strong proponent of R for all data management, analysis and visualization. It is a truly egalitarian analysis package -open source a...