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a) This is an online scientific article.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12462-9
b) It falls into the category of academic, peer-reviewed research material.
c) It contains a method and results section, references, acknowledgments, in-text citations and was written by experts in the field. The ‘scientific report’ website it was published by corroborates this and states that it only publishes peer-reviewed materials and shows the date received, accepted, and published on the article.
Batanero, G.L., León-Palmero, E., Li, L. et al. Flamingos and drought as drivers of nutrients and microbial dynamics in a saline lake. Sci Rep 7, 12173 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12462-9
