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The Source:
The source of ecological information that I chose is a recent paper published in the Journal of Ecology called “Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes”.
Type of Information:
This Source is Academic, Peer-reviewed, Research material.
Support for this Classification:
Academic:
This article is considered academic since the authors are experts in their fields which includes Faculty and a Ph.D. Students from the University of Bristol. All the authors have a high level of education in this field and work in established universities. The Articles also use in-text citation as well as a reference section on pages 1755-1757 which further supports that this article is academic material (Tew et al., 2021).
Peer-reviewed:
This article is peer-reviewed since it was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal called the “Journal of Ecology”. The article also has a section titled “Peer Review” on page 1755 where there is a link to the journal’s website (Tew et al., 2021). On the journal’s website, it states that this article was peer-reviewed by reviewers and by Ignasi Bartomeus with supporting documentation of the review processes that took place before this article was published.
Research:
This article is research material because there is a material and methods section on page 1748 (Tew et al., 2021). This section outlines how the data was collected and the sampling method.
References:
Tew, N. E., Memmott, J., Vaughan, I. P., Bird, S., Stone, G. N., Potts, S. G., & Baldock, K. C. (2021). Quantifying nectar production by flowering plants in urban and rural landscapes. Journal of Ecology, 109(4), 1747–1757. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13598
