Movement Patterns and Nursery Habitat Worksheet
AU Movement Patterns and Nursery Habitat Worksheet
Assignment:
? Please read the “Journal Article to Review” posted on Blackboard. This is a peer-reviewed article by your lab instructor and several other authors, entitled: ‘Movement patterns and nursery habitat of juvenile thresher sharks Alopias vulpinus in the Southern California Bight’.
There are several sections to a journal article. In this case, just read the INTRODUCTION, and DISCUSSION sections.
? You are not expected to understand all the details! Rather, your job is to identify key components of the scientific method by answering the following questions:
1) What Observations did the authors make that may have initiated the study?
2) What Questions did the authors formulate based on those observations?
3) Did the authors state an explicit Hypothesis that they were testing? If so, what was it, and what was their rationale?
4) In the Introduction section of the paper, what is the ‘Big Picture’ concept?
5) What was the overall conclusion of the study?
6) In the Discussion, do the authors come full circle and resolve the ‘Big Picture’ concept?
7) What journal was this study published in?
8) What does it mean for a journal article to be ‘peer-reviewed’?
9) where we will be investigating the effects of varying degrees of light intensity upon plant growth. In several weeks, when you write a lab report based on this experiment, I will ask you come up with a ‘Big Picture’ concept for your Introduction, so here’s your chance to take a first crack at it!
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