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a)The source I’ve chosen is “The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems”. It is a academic, peer-reviewed, review manuscript, combining and modelling non-original research to show growth responses of mosses related to nutrients, heat, water, and especially disturbances in northern climates. This article was chosen since currently we are in winter in a northern climate. Although it especially focuses on boreal forests in Alaska, there are similarities that I thought would bring insight into my Field Research Project surround mosses and their place in an ecosystem. (https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04254.x)
b) The article is peer-reviewed because it was reviewed by Courtney Miller, and advice and discussions with Jill Johnstone, Dale Vitt, Werner Kurz, David Olefeldt, Teresa Hollingsworth, and comments from two anonymous reviewers.
The article is academic as it is lead by Merritt R. Turetsky, who is a part of the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph ON N1G 1G2, Canada.
The article is a review article since the research shown is not originally done by the author, and the modelling done by the authors is the combination of other researcher’s findings.
