A recommendation of: Edward Ivimey-Cook, Joel Pick, Kevin Bairos-Novak, Antica Culina, Elliot Gould, Matthew Grainger, Benjamin Marshall, David Moreau, Matthieu Paquet, Raphaël Royauté, Alfredo Sanchez-Tojar, Inês Silva, Saras Windecker Implementing Code Review in the Scientific Workflow: Insights from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CG64

Multivariate analyses are well known and widely used to identify and understand structures of ecological communities. The ade4 package for the R statistical environment proposes a great number of multivariate methods. Its implementation follows the tradition of the French school of ”Analyse des Données” and is based on the use of the duality diagram. We present the theory of the duality diagram...

A new phase is under way in the study of how plants interact with their physical and biotic environments. Tools are becoming available for handling three−dimensional (3−D) information on the development and growth of individual plants and activities of the organisms which live on them. These tools will lead to in−depth understanding at the level of plant architecture, intermediate between what ...

DNA barcoding potentially offers scientists who are not expert taxonomists a powerful tool to support the accuracy of field studies involving taxa that are diverse and difficult to identify. The taxonomy of rays has received reasonable attention in Australia, although the fauna in remote locations such as Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia is poorly studied and the identification of some species ...

Thirty years ago, marine microbes were described by crude morphology and the ability to grow on different carbon sources. Our understanding of their ecological role in aquatic environments was murky at best. Since then, the development of new molecular methods facilitated by DNA sequencing resulted in a revolution in the field of microbial molecular ecology and evolution. Plummeting sequencing ...

Null model tests of presence–absence data (‘NMTPAs’) provide important tools for inferring eff ects of competition, facilitation, habitat fi ltering, and other ecological processes from observational data. Many NMTPAs have been developed, but they often yield confl icting conclusions when applied to the same data. Type I and II error rates, size, power, robustness and bias provide important cri...