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a.) The ecological information source I selected for this exercise is the following journal article:
Hamann, A. & Wang, T. (2006). Potential effect of climate change on ecosystem and tree species distribution in British Columbia. Ecology 87(11), pp. 2773-2786. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.tru.ca/stable/20069297
b.) This article is classified as academic peer-reviewed research
c.) It was written by experts in the field, employed by the University of British Columbia, at the Centre for Forest Gene Conservation within the Department of Forest Sciences. It has in text citations (ie. p. 2773) and contains a bibliography (p. 2784). It has been peer-reviewed by at least one referee based on the description in the acknowledgements (p. 2784) and the description of manuscript revisions and acceptance (p. 2773). It reports laboratory results, and contains a methods and results section indicating it is research based. Additionally, the methods and results report their own data collection, processing, and findings, affirming the article is research-based. For these reasons, this article would be considered an academic peer-reviewed research article.
