Category: Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

Blog Post#2 (Robyn Reudink)

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For sources of scientific information, the ecological article that I chose is, “Habitat loss and fragmentation affecting mammal and bird communities—The role of interspecific competition and individual space use.” This is an online article that I found using TRU library. Here is the link to this interesting article:

Carsten M. Buchmann, Frank M. Schurr, Ran Nathan, Florian Jeltsch; Habitat loss and fragmentation affecting mammal and bird communities—The role of interspecific competition and individual space use, Ecological Informatics, Volume 14, 2013, Pages 90-98, ISSN 1574-9541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.11.015. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954112001252)

It is classified as an academic, peer-reviewed research material. This article is written by an expert in the field, which includes bibliography and in-text citations in the end section, which makes it an academic material. Field study has been done in the methods section of the article, demonstrating it is peer-reviewed. In acknowledgment section,  N. Blaum and E. Rosmanith and other members were thanked for reviewing this article before publishing it, meaning it is peer-reviewed. It has nice and detailed section where it mentions the results of the study and methods authors used in the article, so it is an academic, peer-reviewed research material.

 

Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

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For this post, I have selected an ecological article titled “Warming and shifting phenology accelerate an invasive plant life cycle”. I found this article online in the journal Ecology, accessed through the UNBC library and available through Open Access. The link is:  https://doi-org.prxy.lib.unbc.ca/10.1002/ecy.3219.

This article is classified as academic, peer-reviewed research material. The source shows that both authors Keller and Shea are affiliated with Pennsylvania State University, multiple in-text citations are used, and a bibliography is available at the end of the document. Therefore, it is an academic article. In the acknowledgements section of the article, three people are thanked for their feedback on the article. Therefore, I conclude that it was peer-reviewed. Finally, there is a methods section which describes a field study in the article. So, I can conclude that it is a research article. The article is linked as documentation supporting my classification.

Blog post 2: Sources of scientific information

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The ecological resource that I selected is an eBook from the TRU library, titled: “Experiments in Ecology: Their Logical Design and Interpretation Using Analysis of Variance” by A. J. Underwood (1997). This is considered to be academic peer-reviewed material source, as the author is considered to be an expert in this field and the book has been peer reviewed. Further, many sources of supporting academic peer-reviewed references are used throughout this book.

Hyperlink:

https:// ezproxy.tru.ca/eds/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzU3MDM4Ml9fQU41?sid=4bd84846-9fb3-434f-a331-4bc1304e4be2@sessionmgr101&vid=1&format=EB&rid=1

 

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The source I found was an eBook from the online library through TRU. The book is called “Source of Birds of British Columbia: A Photographic Journey” by Glenn Bartley. This source will be useful while I am trying to determine bird species at the Esquimalt Lagoon. This source is considered as non-academic material because it does not follow the criteria of having a bibliography or in-text citations.

Link to the eBook https://ezproxy.tru.ca/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=561136&site=eds-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_53

Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

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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

Blog Post 2 – Scientific Source

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The source:

Stevens, B.S. & Conway, C.J. (2019). Predictive multi-scale occupancy models at range-wide extents: Effects of habitat and human disturbance on distributions of wetland birds. Diversity and Distributions, 26, pg 34-48.

Type of information:

This source is an academic, peer-reviewed research article.

Documentation to support this classification:

This article was written by members of two professional fish and wildlife research units in the University of Idaho (unknown if they are experts) and includes both in-text citations and a full list of references. The article also appears to have been reviewed as it shows to have been received 2018-12-27, revised on 2019-05-31, and accepted on 2019-09-16. Lastly, the article contains both “Methods” and “Results” sections.

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Verschuyl, J., A. Hansen, D.B. McWethy, R. Sallabanks, and R.L. Hutto. 2008. Is the effect of forest structure on bird diversity modified by forest productivity? Ecological Applications, 18(5):1155-1170.

https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.tru.ca/stable/pdf/40062219.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ae45ea5077ddaa99c33964d7c2f1828d2

The paper is academic, peer-reviewed research material. The paper contains in-text citations and a bibliography making it academic material. The paper occurs in the Ecological Applications journal which is published by the Ecological Society of America. As per their website, all accepted manuscripts go through the peer-reviewed process (ESA 2021). The paper contains field data which has been analyzed, making it research material rather than review material. A quick google search indicate numerous relevant papers have been written by these authors, demonstrating their expertise in this field.

References:

ESA (Ecological Society of America). Peer Review Process. [accessed 2 May 2021]. https://www.esa.org/publications/peer-review-process-overview/

Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

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Source of Scientific Information:

  • Vye SR, Dickens S, Adams L, et al. Patterns of abundance across geographical ranges as a predictor for responses to climate change: Evidence from UK rocky shores. Divers Distrib. 2020;26:1357–1365. https://doi. org/10.1111/ddi.13118

 

Type of information:

  • It can be classified as Academic, peer-reviewed research material.

 

Evidence to support classification:

  • The paper is written by expert authors that come from different institutions with scientific backgrounds (Bangor University, Newcastle University, University of Liverpool…etc). It also includes in-text citations and has references with all the sources used.
  • The paper was reviewed by three anonymous reviewers that reviewed the manuscript.
  • The paper contains a methods and results section which shows that the researchers conducted field research by collecting data, verifying it, and using statistical analysis to reflect on their results.

 

Blog Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

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A) say what the source is (and/or link to it),

 The source is Scott, Virgil E., Keith E. Evans, David R. Patton, and Charles P. Stone. Cavity-Nesting Birds of North American Forests. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977. Print. Ser. 511.

The book is available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/49172/49172-h/49172-h.htm.

 B) classify it into one of the four types of information discussed in the tutorial.

 I have classified the source as non peer-reviewed academic material.

 C) provide documentation to support your classification.

The source is non peer-reviewed academic material based on the following observations:

  • The authors’ institutional affiliations indicate they have been paid to do the research.
  • There are in-text citations.
  • The information source contains a references section.
  • The book is a government document and does not include an accepted date. However, the reviewers are mentioned, but they are not anonymous. After reviewing the publication’s editorial policies, the book was not peer-reviewed before publication (https://www.govinfo.gov/about/policies).
  • The article does not include a field or laboratory study (i.e. missing methods and results sections).

 

Percy Herbert, Post 2: Sources of Scientific Information

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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.