My chosen source of ecological information is the article “The vegetation, surface water chemistry, and peat chemistry of moderate-rich fens in central Alberta, Canada” published 1989 by Wai-Lin Chee and Dale Vitt.
This article can be found online at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225684988_The_vegatation_surface_water_chemistry_and_peat_chemistry_of_moderate-rich_fens_in_central_Alberta_Canada.
This piece of literature would be classified as academic, peer-reviewed research material. I classified it as such for five reasons. Firstly, this is an academic paper because the authors of it are “experts in the field”, as both of them are affiliated with the University of Alberta. As well, the paper contains numerous in-text citations citing other scientific journals, and contains a Bibliography. This research can also be classified as peer-reviewed. While it doesn’t explicitly mention acknowledgment of a reviewer, the journal Wetlands, under which it was published, is peer-reviewed. This was stated in the website that can be found here: https://www.sws.org/Publications/wetlands-journal.html. Finally, this paper is research material, as the authors conducted a field study themselves. The Methods and Results of this research is included in the article.
