User:Allisonk444/Spore/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Bibliography

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Bibliography edit

Edit this section to compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment. Add the name and/or notes about what each source covers, then use the "Cite" button to generate the citation for that source.

Norem, classifying fossil spores. This is a peer reviewed scientific journal. It gives some information on the different ways spores can be classified as well as information about spore history, this could be interesting to add to the article. ^[1]
This is a peer reviewed article so it should be a reliable source. It gives more information on fossil spores and how they have been used in paleontology. Also gives some information about classifications. Although heavily focuses on fossilized fungi as opposed to fossilized spores. ^[2]
Another peer reviewed article so again should be reliable. Gives a specific example that is relatively recent about how fossilized spores have been used to identify the date of fossil records and its connection to land plants. Also begins to give information about why spores may have been created as an adaptation. ^[3]
This article peer reviewed so it should be a reliable source. It gives information about trilete spores which the article had stated needed better citation. This will be really helpful! ^[4]

Examples:

Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
- This is a book published by a university press, so it should be a reliable source. It also covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source for a specific fact. Since it only dedicates a few sentences to the topic, it can't be used to establish notability.

References edit

^ Norem, W. L. (1958). "Keys for the Classification of Fossil Spores and Pollen". Journal of Paleontology. 32 (4): 666–676. ISSN 0022-3360.
^ Saxena, Rk (2021). "Diversity in fossil fungal spores" (PDF). Mycosphere. 12 (1): 670–874. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/12/1/8.
^ Strother, Paul K.; Foster, Clinton (2021-08-13). "A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algae". Science. 373 (6556): 792–796. doi:10.1126/science.abj2927. ISSN 0036-8075.
^ Wellman, C. H.; Gray, J. (2000-06-29). "The microfossil record of early land plants". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 355 (1398): 717–731, discussion 731–732. doi:10.1098/rstb.2000.0612. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 1692785. PMID 10905606.

Outline of proposed changes edit

Through my research I found that there is a lack of information on the wiki article about how spores can be used to indicated age of various fossils. In addition, they have also been used to track when various plant species have evolved. There is not another wikipedia page dedicated to this process and I think it would a good addition to Spores article. In addition I have found a couple sources to support other claims made on the wiki article that have not been cited.

Now that you have compiled a bibliography, it's time to plan out how you'll improve your assigned article.

In this section, write up a concise outline of how the sources you've identified will add relevant information to your chosen article. Be sure to discuss what content gap your additions tackle and how these additions will improve the article's quality.

Consider other changes you'll make to the article, including possible deletions of irrelevant, outdated, or incorrect information, restructuring of the article to improve its readability or any other change you plan on making. This is your chance to really think about how your proposed additions will improve your chosen article and to vet your sources even further.

Note: This is not a draft. This is an outline/plan where you can think about how the sources you've identified will fill in a content gap.

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[1] Norem, W. L. (1958). "Keys for the Classification of Fossil Spores and Pollen". Journal of Paleontology. 32 (4): 666–676. ISSN 0022-3360.

[2] Saxena, Rk (2021). "Diversity in fossil fungal spores" (PDF). Mycosphere. 12 (1): 670–874. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/12/1/8.

[3] Strother, Paul K.; Foster, Clinton (2021-08-13). "A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algae". Science. 373 (6556): 792–796. doi:10.1126/science.abj2927. ISSN 0036-8075.

[4] Wellman, C. H.; Gray, J. (2000-06-29). "The microfossil record of early land plants". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 355 (1398): 717–731, discussion 731–732. doi:10.1098/rstb.2000.0612. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 1692785. PMID 10905606.

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