Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

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Multi-decadal establishment for single-cohort Douglas-fir forests.

Available from Canadian Journal of Forest Research, http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfr-2013-0533

This paper is an academic, peer-reviewed research article.

The Canadian Journal of Forest Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

“This manuscript was improved with the help of two peer reviewers. Linda Winter, Keala Hagmann, Derek Churchill, and Lauren Urgenson provided helpful reviews of this manuscript.” showed that it was indeed peer-reviewed.

The in-text citations + reference list that connected this work to other scientific work/sources also provided validity.

The paper was a research article as it contained primary research, utilizing scientific method. It contained an introduction, methods, results, and discussion section.

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