User: | Open Learning Faculty Member:
a) I found an article online on fern species diversity in an old-growth forest. I have provided a link to it below.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2000.tb00279.x
b) This source of information is academic peer-reviewed research.
c) I was able to determine that it is an academic source because I was able to click on the authors and see that they are affiliated with a university. There were also in-text citations and a bibliography.
Next, I could see that it was peer-reviewed because there was an acceptance date, as well as the authors thanked some people in the acknowledgements section for “providing helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.”
Finally, I concluded that it was a research source due to the presence of a methods and results section, meaning they reported results of a field study.
