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Blog post 2: Sources of Scientific Information
Amy Laycock.
A. The source I have chosen is a research paper published in the Forest Ecology and Management Journal: Long-term time series of annual ecosystem production (198502010) derived from tree rings in Douglas-fir stands on Vancouver Island, Canada using a hybrid biometric-modelling approach.
B. This article is an academic, peer-reviewed, research source.
C. It has been written by experts in the field (authors who work in the Canadian Forestry Service and forest and ecology researchers out of UBC). It has been published in a scientific journal with a satisfactory impact score (3.169), which edits and peer-reviews papers before publishing. It includes in-text citations throughout the paper, citing other credible peer-reviewed sources. This article contains a section which outlines their methods in a way that other researchers could replicate the study and a results section which summarize the relevant data they collected. Therefore, the article contains all the required criteria to be a primary academic, peer-reviewed, research source.
source:
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/science/article/pii/S0378112718308405
Metsaranta, J., Trofymow, J., Black, T., & Jassal, R. (2018). Long-term time series of annual ecosystem production (1985–2010) derived from tree rings in Douglas-fir stands on Vancouver Island, Canada using a hybrid biometric-modelling approach. Forest Ecology And Management, 429, 57-68. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.06.040
