Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

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The source I have chosen is a review article in the peer reviewed Scientific Journale: “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B” titled “The niche, biogeography and species” by “Dr. John Wiens”:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2011.0059

This review article is about how the ecological concepts of niches relate to the field of biogeography. The author also describes how patterns in biogeography are related to species niches. Niches are the combination of biotic and abiotic conditions that allows individual species to live in different areas or zones.

Of the four categories of informations sources, I believe that it belongs to “academic peer-reviewed review material”. This article is published in a peer reviewed, scientific journal and the author has stated in the abstract that the paper is a review article specifically. The paper also does not contain a methods or Results section.

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