Journal of Ecology recently published a new review by Staggemeier et al. “The circular nature of recurrent life cycle events: a test comparing tropical and temperate phenology.” Here authors Vanessa Graziele Staggemeier, Maria Gabriela Gutierrez & Patrícia Morellato discuss their study in more detail and highlight the importance of circular statistics. Since von Humboldt, many…
Tracking the uptake of primary articles in the scientific literature via the social media is now widely accepted as a valid measure of the value of our work. In an earlier blog post we presented some data on article level metrics (ALMs: altmetrics) of Journal of Ecology articles from 2012. We are pleased that readers…
Joe Mudge wrote a guest post for the blog here in March of this year. The post dealt with our use of α=0.05 for hypothesis testing. The following is another guest post by Joe Mudge in which he presents evidence of the benefit of using the optimal alpha level approach. Please chime in with your thoughts.
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