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The source of ecological information that I have chosen is a journal article titled “Cross-scale dynamics in community and disease ecology: relative timescales shape the community ecology of pathogens” and it is available at the following link: https://esajournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.tru.ca/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.2836. The journal article can be classified as “academic, peer-reviewed, research material” (as defined in Module 1).
The article is “academic” because it is written by experts (given that the study is associated with the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota), in text citations are present, and a “Literature Cited” section is included.
The article is peer-reviewed. No acknowledgment of referees is included in the article. However, a reference to the corresponding editor (in addition to received, revised, and accepted dates of Feb-8-19, May-15-19, Jun-25-19, respectively) is included. Furthermore, the official website for the journal, Ecology, indicates that it conducts peer review and provides instructions for manuscript submissions.
The article can be considered research material because it includes “Methods” and “Results” sections. In addition, while the article’s authors use existing models to derive their methods, they run their own, novel simulations to acquire data. Therefore, the work related to this article could be described as experimental.
Reference List:
Read full aims and scope [Internet]. c2020. Washington, DC: Ecological Society of America; [accessed 2020 Jun 9]. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/19399170/aims-and-scope/read-full-aims-and-scope.
Strauss A, Shoemaker L, Seabloom E, Borer E. 2019. Cross-scale dynamics in community and disease ecology: relative timescales shape the community ecology of pathogens. Eco [Internet]. [2020 Jun 9]; 100(11):e02836. Available from: https://esajournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.tru.ca/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.2836 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2836.
