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For my second blog post I chose a journal article entitled ‘The impact of river regulation on the biodiversity intactness of floodplain wetlands’ by Jan J. Kuiper, Jan H. Nanse, Sven Teurlincx, Jos T. A. Verhoeven and Rob Alkemade, published in Wetlands Ecology and Management in 2014. I first considered the nature of my Field Research Project and then began a Google Scholar search of relevant material. After finding and reading several relevant articles, I chose this one; a meta-analysis that includes data from other relevant articles that I had read. A PDF was not readily available directly through Google Scholar, nor the Thompson Rivers University Library database. However, a link to the author’s Research Gate profile provided open access to the article, from which I accessed the PDF. This publication is academic, peer-reviewed, research material.
Academic: This publication was written by experts in the field: a university professor, a postdoctoral research fellow, a project manager and an independent researcher. It includes in-text citations: “Moreover, measures of flow modification are mostly inconsistently reported in the literature (Olden and Poff 2003; Poff and Zimmerman 2010).”; “Poff et al. (2009) remarked that ecological changes may also be formalised and empirically tested when they are expressed as categorical responses.”. A bibliography is provided.(see pages 656-658 in above link).
Peer-reviewed: This publication was peer-reviewed by two anonymous reviewers as stated in the acknowledgements section (see page 656 in above link).
Research Material: This publication includes both ‘methods’ and ‘results’ sections.
