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Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information
For this post, I chose the article “Influence of repeated fertilization on forage production for native mammalian herbivores in young lodgepole pine forests” written by Pontus M.F. Lindgren and Thomas P. Sullivan, from the Web of Science database. This article is academic, peer-reviewed, research material.
Academic: This article can be considered academic because it includes in-text citations: “Stand thinning and fertilization are silvicultural practices designed to sustain wood and biomass production on a shrinking forest landbase while concurrently creating a diversity of forest habitat conditions to meet the goals of biodiversity conservation (Moore and Allen, 1999; Hartley, 2002; Monkkonen et al., 2014).”, and a list of references. In addition, author Thomas Sullivan belongs to the Applied Biology and Forestry departments at UBC, while Lindgren holds a PhD from the Department of Forestry at UBC.
Peer-reviewed: I determined the article to be peer-reviewed because a search of the publishing journal “Forest Ecology and Management” on the Elsevier database detailed the peer-review process the journal uses for all articles. Also, the article shows a “Revised” date of February 27, 2018, one month before the publishing date of March 20, 2018.
Research material: The article contains both a methods and results section, showing that the authors carried out original research and recorded their findings.
Citation:
Lindgren, P. M., & Sullivan, T. P. (2018). Influence of repeated fertilization on forage production for native mammalian herbivores in young lodgepole pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 417, 265-280.
