User:EricaLavranos/Choose an Article
Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.
Option 1
- Article title:
- Saltmarsh Sparrow
- Article Evaluation:
- Pretty good article with some room to add information about anthropogenic impacts on their conservation and population. The sources are all pretty good, and I have some additional ones from a research paper that would compliment it well.
- Sources:
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2020. Report on the current conditions for the saltmarsh sparrow. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Northeast Region, Charlestown, RI. 106 pp. https://fws.gov/northeast/saltmarsh-sparrow/PDF/20200821-Current-Conditions-Report_SALS-Final.pdf
- Salt Marsh Bird Conservation Plan for the Atlantic Coast. 2019. Atlantic Coast Joint Venture. www.acjv.org
Option 2
- Article title:
- Piping Plover
- Article Evaluation:
- More developed than the Saltmarsh Sparrow article but, similarly, there can be more information about anthropogenic impacts.
- Sources:
- MassAudubon has a lot of great information online, same with the other coastal audubon's on the upper east coast of the United States.
Option 3
- Article title:
- Least Tern
- Article Evaluation:
- There is room for improvement in this article. There is a lot of information missing in behavioral characteristics as well as conservation status with the potential decline that is occuring.
- Sources:
- https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs144p2_051372.pdf
- https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/leasttern/
Option 4
- Article title:
- Methane Emissions
- Article Evaluation:
- Good information but there is new research linking red algae supplementation with a decrease in livestock methane emissions so that might be interesting to add.
- Sources:
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247820
Option 5
- Article title
- Article Evaluation
- Sources