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For this blog post I decided to choose The Journal of Applied Ecology. This site is an excellent source of ecological information and is very reliable. I decided to pick this site because it has a variety of journals related to animals and their behavior which I believe will help me with regards to my final project. I am planning on studying “How does having human activity incorporated into the forest affect certain activity of animals in the surrounding area?” so I believe this will be a very helpful and reliable source of information.
This is the link for the homepage:
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13652664
I will most likely be using journals from this part of the website, which is the journals of animal ecology:
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13652656
The Journal of Applied Ecology is an academic, peer-reviewed, review and research material.
I believe this to be the case since the site was written by experts, contained a bibliography and in-text citations, the journals had also been review by at least one referee before publication and there was a methods and results portions.
Reference:
Chalfoun, A. and Martin, T. 2007. Assessments of habitat preferences and quality depend on spatial scale and metrics of fitness. Journal of Applied Ecology 44(5): 983-992.
