The source of Ecological information that I will write about in this post is an article about Seamounts called, The Ecology of Seamounts: Structure, Function, and Human Impacts.

Here is a link to the article:  https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-marine-120308-081109#_i2

This article is definitely considered to be academic material as it fulfills the three basic requirements.

The article is written by experts in the field whose credentials are listed under their names. The authors have affiliations with various Universities and other organizations.

The article also includes in-text citations and a list of literature cited at the bottom.

This article has been published in the peer-reviewed academic journal, Annual Review of Marine Science. Every article published in this journal must pass through a peer-review process to become published.

No new research results are presented in this article. There are no methods or results sections in the article as there is no research conducted.

Instead, the article summarizes major findings in the field into a concise overview of the state of research in the field. This article is academic, peer-reviewed review material.