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I have selected a chapter out of an online publication from the B.C. Ministry of Forests. Chapter 5: Coastal Douglas-fir zone provides detailed information about the classification, distribution and ecological characteristics of the Coastal Douglas fir zone. For anyone who is interested the link is as follows: https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/srs/srs06.pdf
Based on the flow chart for discriminating among different sources of information this publication is academic, peer-reviewed review material. I arrived at this conclusion because F. Nuszdorfer, K. Klinka, and D. Demarchi are (were) the leading forest ecologists who researched and oversaw the biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification system for B.C. Within the acknowledgments section there are numerous authors and colleagues at the Ministry Forests and Ministry of Environment identified who reviewed individual chapters as well as the overall manuscript. As well, when I did a Google search of the publication with “times cited” over 5000 hits were displayed.
F.C. Nuszdorfer et al. Chapter 5: Coastal Douglas-fir Zone. Ecosystems of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Forests, 1991. www.for.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/ss/srs06.pdf. Web. 2 Oct. 2017.
