Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

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The source of ecological information I have chosen to evaluate is Birds as mediators of passive restoration during early post-fire recovery from Biological Conservation, Volume 158.

Using the course information from the tutorial on how to evaluate sources of scientific information, I would classify this article as academic, peer-reviewed research material.This article contains in-text citations as well as a list of all cited literature. This article is research material because it contains materials and methods, results, and discussion sections. It is also peer-reviewed because it specifically mentions editors, as well as the dates the article was edited and then accepted.

Article link:

Cavallero, L. Raffaele, E. Aizen, M. (2013). Birds as mediators of passive restoration during early post-fire recovery, Biological Conservation: Vol. 158: p. 342-350. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320712004247

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