User:Brittany Mendrikis/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
 * SLOSS debate
 * Article Evaluation
 * article would benefit from updated information on the status of the debate as well as a dedicated section for the application of SLOSS. An image to visually represent SLOSS would be helpful for the readers. more references showing support or opposing SLOSS (both included so as not to introduce bias) as well as some discussing the debate would be beneficial as the article only has 3 references.
 * Sources
 * Valente, Donatella, et al. “The Role of Green Infrastructures in Italian Cities by Linking Natural and Social Capital.” Ecological Indicators, vol. 108, 2020, p. 105694
 * Liu, Haoqi, et al. “How Nonrandom Habitat Loss Affects Nature Reserve Planning Strategies.” Ecological Modelling, vol. 397, 2019, pp. 39–46., doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.12.014.
 * Valente, Donatella, et al. “The Role of Green Infrastructures in Italian Cities by Linking Natural and Social Capital.” Ecological Indicators, vol. 108, 2020, p. 105694
 * Liu, Haoqi, et al. “How Nonrandom Habitat Loss Affects Nature Reserve Planning Strategies.” Ecological Modelling, vol. 397, 2019, pp. 39–46., doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.12.014.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Leaf area index


 * Article Evaluation
 * Applications of LAI is lacking. missing information about densiometers. more information is available in literature about methods of determining the leaf area index.


 * Sources
 * Paloscia, S. “An Empirical Approach to Estimating Leaf Area Index from Multifrequency SAR Data.” International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 19, no. 2, 1998, pp. 359–364., doi:10.1080/014311698216323.
 * Arslan, Adil Enis, et al. “Application of Geodetic Projections to Terrestrial Laser Scanning in Leaf Area Index Calculation.” 2016 24th Signal Processing and Communication Application Conference (SIU), 2016, doi:10.1109/siu.2016.7495900.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * The Theory of Island Biogeography


 * Article Evaluation
 * The applications section is lacking, important to add its impact on parks management. Should add in that it sparked the SLOSS debate. Theory is old so new takes have been published, worth adding a section about further research.


 * Sources
 * Anderson, W.b., and D.a. Wait. “Subsidized Island Biogeography Hypothesis: Another New Twist on an Old Theory.” Ecology Letters, vol. 4, no. 4, 2001, pp. 289–291., doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00226.x.
 * Powledge, Fred. “Island Biogeographys Lasting Impact.” BioScience, vol. 53, no. 11, 2003, p. 1032., doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[1032:ibli]2.0.co;2.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Wildlife Garden


 * Article Evaluation
 * Only two peer reviewed papers as sources, rest are websites, would benefit from more scientific sources. Has a section specifically about the Netherlands, would make sense to add more information about other parts of the world as well. Article implies that wildlife gardening is on an individual basis, does not refer to public wildlife garden projects.


 * Sources
 * Gaston, Kevin J., et al. “Urban Domestic Gardens (XI): Variation in Urban Wildlife Gardening in the United Kingdom.” Biodiversity and Conservation, vol. 16, no. 11, 2007, pp. 3227–3238., doi:10.1007/s10531-007-9174-6.
 * Goddard, Mark A., et al. “Scaling up from Gardens: Biodiversity Conservation in Urban Environments.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 25, no. 2, 2010, pp. 90–98., doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.07.016.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Environmental Disaster


 * Article Evaluation
 * Entire section needs to be removed, can add much more in the climate change section. Can add differentiation between risk, hazard and disaster. Can add section for history/patterns of disasters intensity compared to frequency. Can add list of athropogenic disaster types and natural types.


 * Sources
 * https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/Global-Flood-Hazard-Frequency-and-Distribution/g5tc-cjpd
 * Wang, Yi Xin, et al. “Study on Statistical Analysis in the Characteristics of Frequency Changes of Typhoon Landed in China.” Applied Mechanics and Materials, vol. 204-208, 2012, pp. 3397–3400., doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.204-208.3397.