a) Source title: “Ten years of pulling: Ecosystem recovery after long-term weed management in Garry oak savanna.”
Citation:
Shackelford, N., S. Murray, J. Bennett, P. Lilley, B. Starzomski, and R. Standish. 2019. Ten years of pulling: Ecosystem recovery after long-term weed management in Garry oak savanna. CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 1.
b) This is academic peer-reviewed research material.
c) The authors of this article have affiliations with the University of Victoria and, received funding from accredited research institutes like NSERC and have doctoral degrees in the area of ecology, all suggesting they are experts in the field. There are in-text citations throughout the entire article with a complete list of references at the end, which supports this being an academic source. The article has a comprehensive methods and results section that explains and analyzes how data was collected for a decade-long study conducted on the effects of long-term weed management on ecosystem recovery within Garry oak savannas. This further suggests this is a research article because they reported on original data they collected, analyzed, and interpreted in order to answer their hypotheses. Because this article is published in Conservation Science and Practice, which is a peer-reviewed journal, this would also suggest it underwent a full peer-review process by other experts in the field of ecology as a requirement before publication. It’s worth noting that it isn’t directly stated in the article what peer-review process took place or who reviewed it, but based off the credibility of the peer-reviewed journal this is published in along with the evidence above, we can infer this is likely academic peer-reviewed research material.