1. I believe we were asked to find the paper using the citation provided rather than having a copy of the paper posted on the D2L website in order to familiarize ourselves with how to interpret citations, since it is critical to understand what information (for example: title, author, publishing date) is provided within the citation, and also to get a sense of how the Ryerson online library site operates, along with the various resources offered on the library site.
2. The legal reason as to why the paper was not posted on Brightspace, but instead we were asked to go through the Ryerson library site in order to access the paper, may be due to the fact that the authors’ permission must be obtained prior to posting the scientific paper to Brightspace. …show more content…
The abstract conveys information regarding the purpose, methods, and results of the experiment. In the case of Danyagri and Dang’s “Effects of elevated [CO2] and soil temperature on photosynthetic responses of mountain maple (Acer spicatum L.) seedlings to light”, the abstract conveyed that the purpose of the experiment was to predict how plants will distribute themselves in the future with varying conditions including changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and soil temperatures at varying light intensities. They examined what would occur by doing exactly so; by altering [CO2] and soil temperatures, and found that there would likely be an increase in growth of Acer spicatum L. with increased [CO2], but not with increased soil temperatures (at higher light levels).
3. The basic experimental methods used in this experiment include observing results in how seedlings grew for one growing season under the varying conditions of 392 μmol mol-1 vs. 784 μmol mol-1 [CO2], 17 ᵒC vs. 22 ᵒC soil temperatures and 100% vs. 30% light intensities (Danyagri and Dang, …show more content…
The approximate length of an abstract is about a paragraph in length.
Introduction:
1. The purpose of the literature review in the introduction is to enhance the information that the authors are providing the reader by specifying what results they are expecting to find with reasons behind their predictions. The literature review in the introduction also includes cited sources, which allows the authors to enhance their own information with support from these qualified sources, in order to set an educated hypothesis for this experiment.
2. What is different about the research in this study than that of other researchers on the same topic, is that in this experiment, an investigation on how different levels of [CO2] and different levels of soil temperature affect how the mountain maple, (a shade-tolerant species), functions under high-light environments. This is a topic that is not well known and therefore, this study hopes to shed some light on this topic and “fill in the gaps” in present research on this
2. The legal reason as to why the paper was not posted on Brightspace, but instead we were asked to go through the Ryerson library site in order to access the paper, may be due to the fact that the authors’ permission must be obtained prior to posting the scientific paper to Brightspace. …show more content…
The abstract conveys information regarding the purpose, methods, and results of the experiment. In the case of Danyagri and Dang’s “Effects of elevated [CO2] and soil temperature on photosynthetic responses of mountain maple (Acer spicatum L.) seedlings to light”, the abstract conveyed that the purpose of the experiment was to predict how plants will distribute themselves in the future with varying conditions including changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and soil temperatures at varying light intensities. They examined what would occur by doing exactly so; by altering [CO2] and soil temperatures, and found that there would likely be an increase in growth of Acer spicatum L. with increased [CO2], but not with increased soil temperatures (at higher light levels).
3. The basic experimental methods used in this experiment include observing results in how seedlings grew for one growing season under the varying conditions of 392 μmol mol-1 vs. 784 μmol mol-1 [CO2], 17 ᵒC vs. 22 ᵒC soil temperatures and 100% vs. 30% light intensities (Danyagri and Dang, …show more content…
The approximate length of an abstract is about a paragraph in length.
Introduction:
1. The purpose of the literature review in the introduction is to enhance the information that the authors are providing the reader by specifying what results they are expecting to find with reasons behind their predictions. The literature review in the introduction also includes cited sources, which allows the authors to enhance their own information with support from these qualified sources, in order to set an educated hypothesis for this experiment.
2. What is different about the research in this study than that of other researchers on the same topic, is that in this experiment, an investigation on how different levels of [CO2] and different levels of soil temperature affect how the mountain maple, (a shade-tolerant species), functions under high-light environments. This is a topic that is not well known and therefore, this study hopes to shed some light on this topic and “fill in the gaps” in present research on this