User:PaigeHerkemij/Ecoregion conservation status/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 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.

This was the first paper I found although I do not have access to it anymore. I was going to email the writer to try and get access but I have found many more sources so I may not need it anymore^[1]
2003, a comprehensive paper about what ecoregions are and how conservation is done within them. Has pictures of certain ecoregions with details of the section of land it details. Discusses conditions of an ecoregion, placement, and nature heritage. Having a picture of a seven-step conservation plan for a specific ecoregion could be useful for a specific example of how this is done. http://www.conservationgateway.org/ConservationByGeography/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/edc/Documents/ED_terrestrial_ERAs_ecoregconserve.pdf
World Wildlife Fund is an organization that has put out multiple papers on the actions being taken to help conserve areas and species. This paper is a document of 876 ecoregions that are being watched including species that are within them. Many more papers from the WWF could be useful.
IUCN Red List. summary of animals on the red list. The IUCN has many more papers that will be useful including ones that will describe how the red list is made. A figure in my wiki was taken from this paper that depicts https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/summary-statistics
2019, This is a literature paper evaluating the IUCN. The introduction talks more about what the IUCN is known for and its starting points. Will be useful to introduce the IUCN in the paper and to connect it into the definition. ^[2]
2001, IUCN red data book. This is a very strange setup for a paper, almost all of it looks like code. May not be super useful but could have good information in the depths of it. I have read most of the readable sections and it has a few quotable sentences that could be rearranged in a paragraph, but mostly this paper gives more context to what the IUCN is and does.^[3]
2001, conserving biodiversity paper. Points of the paper talk about the ways ecoregion is used for conservation. Very short but may have good papers attached to it. It gives information about the size of said ecoregions as well as ways ecoregions have been deleted or changed. Has a good figure that could be used in the final project.^[4]
I need access to this paper but the abstract talks about the placements used in the red list and how decisions are made in ordering species. Gives a little more context to the red list and I may not need to pull much from this but because it gave me some context, I will probably site in in the final project.^[5]
Paper all about the 5s-framework and how this is used in conservation work. I will use this information to create an outline of how the framework is used to analyze ecoregions that are in need. There is a figure that talks about all of this in detail which I may add to the final project.https://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/5S-v1-1.pdf
This is a very old paper that is no longer publicly accessible but I got the paper from Wikipedia that has access to it. It has all the species from the Global 200 paper and also talks about the criteria that were used to make this paper. This is very useful for the section that I will talk about in the Global 200 paper and how this was useful for ecoregion conservation.https://web.archive.org/web/20161007001330/http://planet.uwc.ac.za/nisl/Biodiversity/pdf/OlsonDinerstein1998.pdf

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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

^ Gerovasileiou, Vasilis; Dailianis, Thanos; Sini, Maria; Otero, MARIA del MAR; Numa, Catherine; Katsanevakis, Stelios; Voultsiadou, Eleni (2018-04-11). "Assessing the regional conservation status of sponges (Porifera): the case of the Aegean ecoregion". Mediterranean Marine Science. 19 (3): 526–537. doi:10.12681/mms.14461. ISSN 1791-6763.
^ Betts, Jessica; Young, Richard P.; Hilton‐Taylor, Craig; Hoffmann, Michael; Rodríguez, Jon Paul; Stuart, Simon N.; Milner‐Gulland, E.J. (2020-06). "A framework for evaluating the impact of the IUCN Red List of threatened species". Conservation Biology. 34 (3): 632–643. doi:10.1111/cobi.13454. ISSN 0888-8892. PMC 7318271. PMID 31876054. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: PMC format (link)
^ IUCN Red List categories and criteria, version 3.1. IUCN. 2001. ISBN 978-2-8317-0633-7.
^ academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/51/11/933/227116. Retrieved 2024-03-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ Pfab, Michèle F.; Victor, Janine E.; Armstrong, Adrian J. (2011-05-01). "Application of the IUCN Red Listing system to setting species targets for conservation planning purposes". Biodiversity and Conservation. 20 (5): 1001–1012. doi:10.1007/s10531-011-0009-0. ISSN 1572-9710.

Outline of proposed changes

An ecoregion is an area that consists of specific amounts of biodiversity and is large but smaller than a bioregion. A conservation status is a way to measure the degree of alteration in an ecoregion. This is done by a multitude of measures including habitat loss, protection, and fragmentation. I will outline how ecoregion conservation status is put forth using many sources, including an example of the ways it helps a species of sponge. There are new sources from the World Wildlife Fund that talk about this topic. The addition of pictures highlights what an ecoregion looks like and how a conservation status is done on an ecoregion. This topic is a subsection of the two words, so pulling information from both Wikipedia pages can be helpful to address missing information. I have found a paper that highlights what ecoregion conservation is and explains in much more detail how they are labeled and things that are done to conserve the area. This would be great to write about and connect back to how it becomes an ecoregion of concern. I plan to also focus on examples of the use os ecoregion conservation to show how tactics are used to combat the fall of biodiversity in specific regions and to enlighten about what conservation looks like in ecoregions throughout the world. There are lots of new papers around the united states and Canada that focus on specific ecoregions but there are also papers that broadly explain ecoregion conservation over the entire planet.

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] Gerovasileiou, Vasilis; Dailianis, Thanos; Sini, Maria; Otero, MARIA del MAR; Numa, Catherine; Katsanevakis, Stelios; Voultsiadou, Eleni (2018-04-11). "Assessing the regional conservation status of sponges (Porifera): the case of the Aegean ecoregion". Mediterranean Marine Science. 19 (3): 526–537. doi:10.12681/mms.14461. ISSN 1791-6763.

[2] Betts, Jessica; Young, Richard P.; Hilton‐Taylor, Craig; Hoffmann, Michael; Rodríguez, Jon Paul; Stuart, Simon N.; Milner‐Gulland, E.J. (2020-06). "A framework for evaluating the impact of the IUCN Red List of threatened species". Conservation Biology. 34 (3): 632–643. doi:10.1111/cobi.13454. ISSN 0888-8892. PMC 7318271. PMID 31876054. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: PMC format (link)

[3] IUCN Red List categories and criteria, version 3.1. IUCN. 2001. ISBN 978-2-8317-0633-7.

[4] academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/51/11/933/227116. Retrieved 2024-03-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[5] Pfab, Michèle F.; Victor, Janine E.; Armstrong, Adrian J. (2011-05-01). "Application of the IUCN Red Listing system to setting species targets for conservation planning purposes". Biodiversity and Conservation. 20 (5): 1001–1012. doi:10.1007/s10531-011-0009-0. ISSN 1572-9710.

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