a. The scientific source I have chosen is a called: Climate change leads to decreasing bird migration distances by Visser et al., 2009 and it was published by Global Change Biology.
b. This paper would be an academic, peer-reviewed, research material.
c. It is an academic material because the authors are experts in the field of ecology, specifically the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the Animal Ecology Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies which is stated just below the authors names. It is also associated with the University of Groningen. This paper contains in text-citations and a bibliography as well.
It is a peer-reviewed because underneath the abstract it states it was received, revised, and accepted which tells us it was peer-reviewed. Also, I looked into what it takes to publish an article in Global Change Biology (specifically as research article), and it states it must be peer-reviewed.
It is research material as it contains both a methods section that explores data selection, ecological characteristics, population growth and climatic data, and statistical analyses and a results section in the paper.
References:
Global Change Biology – Wiley Online Library. Author Guidelines. (n.d.). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/13652486/homepage/forauthors.html
Visser, M. E., Perdeck, A. C., Van Balen, J. H., & Both, C. (2009). Climate change leads to decreasing bird migration distances. Global Change Biology, 15(8), 1859-1865.
interesting idea.
Actually talking with someone today who is looking at how climate change might be behind longer distances of migration (since changing climate is impacting habitat at lower latitudes – theory is birds must travel to higher latitudes to find suitable habitat). I wonder if we will see a shift northward as heat domes become more common. When we had the heat dome in Interior BC in 2021, there were Great Blue Herons in Marks Work Wearhouse (cool), and it made me realize that species aren’t shifting that quickly, perhaps.