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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 Tropical Ecology
 * Article Evaluation This article has an introduction and three broad sections: Origins, Conservation and Management and Significance of Ecology in the Tropics. The article does not give background information about the specific biotic and abiotic factors that constitute a tropical ecosystem. The article should display the regions of the world that are considered tropical and why. Additionally, in the Significance of Ecology in the Tropics section, many general statements are made stating the value of tropical ecosystems for ecology research and the supposed impressive biodiversity, but the section could be improved with more concrete evidence. The Conservation and Management section needs more evidence and less general statements as well. I think it would also be beneficial to associate the study of evolution with the study of ecology of the tropics and how the association of these two fields is very important for understanding the biological history on Earth.
 * Sources: BioScience, Volume 42, Issue 11, December 1992, Pages 859-866
 * Shawn Lum, Ngo Kang Min, Lessons in Ecology and Conservation from a tropical forest fragment in Singapore, Biological Conservation, Volume 254, 2021, 108847.
 * Sources: BioScience, Volume 42, Issue 11, December 1992, Pages 859-866
 * Shawn Lum, Ngo Kang Min, Lessons in Ecology and Conservation from a tropical forest fragment in Singapore, Biological Conservation, Volume 254, 2021, 108847.

Option 2

 * Article title Adaptive Radiation
 * Article Evaluation This article has an introduction and sections about the characteristics of adaptive radiation, conditions for adaptive radiation and significant examples of adaptive radiation in history. I think the conditions section could be expanded upon. There could be a section about the role or adaptive radiation in the overall theory of evolution and potentially a history section about how this factor of the theory of evolution came to be.
 * Sources Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopedia. "adaptive radiation". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Jan. 2020.
 * Sources Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopedia. "adaptive radiation". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Jan. 2020.
 * Sources Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopedia. "adaptive radiation". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Jan. 2020.

Option 3

 * Article title: The World Conference on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity as an Aid to their Survival
 * Article Evaluation This article gives very basic information about what this conference is and lists the timeline of occurences of the event. The article lacks information about the history of the event in terms of its purpose and how it was started and continues to change to be an important event for conservation. There is no acknowledgement of the outcomes of this conference thus far or any significant conclusions or negotiations made at the conference.
 * Sources Cory Laughlin, World Conference III on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity
 * Sources Cory Laughlin, World Conference III on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity
 * Sources Cory Laughlin, World Conference III on Breeding Endangered Species in Captivity

Option 4

 * Article title Species Evenness
 * Article Evaluation This article is very brief, it gives basic information about the methods for measuring and calculating species evenness. The article could be expanded by adding the relevance of species evenness for studying ecology and specifically biodiversity.
 * Sources
 * John C. Moore, Diversity, Taxonomic versus Functional, Encyclopedia or Biodiversity (Second Edition), 2013.
 * Sources
 * John C. Moore, Diversity, Taxonomic versus Functional, Encyclopedia or Biodiversity (Second Edition), 2013.

Option 5

 * Article title Insect Ecology
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article gives information about what insect ecology is and the types of insects that exist. The article could be expanded by talking about the impact of insects on community ecology and the importance of insect conservation. Additionally, there could be more specific details about the coverage of insects around the world and the types of insects in different ecosystems and their roles in those ecosystems.
 * This article gives information about what insect ecology is and the types of insects that exist. The article could be expanded by talking about the impact of insects on community ecology and the importance of insect conservation. Additionally, there could be more specific details about the coverage of insects around the world and the types of insects in different ecosystems and their roles in those ecosystems.


 * Sources Schowalter, D. Timothy, Summary and Synthesis, Insect Ecology(Fourth Edition), 2016.