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The sources of information for the study would include botanical books that are in the library. The information documented therein would help understand the evolution of the vegetation especially trees within the Palo Alto area. There are various books within the library that not only show the history of the Palo Alto vegetation. They are unchangeable and were written by people who inhabited or visited the area at different times in history. Understanding the history of the trees from the perspective of other botanists would come in handy in ensuring the data collection and analysis are done effectively rather than using guesswork. The books also provides education and lessons on the different species hence making it easier to correlate the different types of trees within the ecosystem. Additionally, peer reviewed articles would be a great source of information that would connect the past to the present hence help project the future and becoming a guide for the study. The articles contains information that peers within the ecological field have found or rather discovered over time. Most of these articles have been verified to be useful especially those that have been published in google scholar amongst other scholarly sites. Therefore, becoming a basis for understanding and developing the hypothesis and the thesis. Published articles within the university’s environmental magazines and journals would also come in handy. These articles not only contains the various tree genus but also informs of the possible changes that occur in the tree plantations and distributions not only within the campus but also outside.
Another source of information for the study was a scientific research article and the types of information presented is academic peer-reviewed review material. This is because the information is published by the Ecological Society of America and made available on JSTOR, a digital library which was founded in 1995, in the United States (“Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTOR,” n.d.).
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Terms and Conditions of Use | About JSTOR. (n.d.). Retrieved September 1, 2020, from https://about.jstor.org/terms/
