Friday, March 14, 2014

How To Induct a Scholarly Report

My next environmental science blog, I will demonstrate how to provide a scholarly article. This is significant for anyone who have to do a research for a paper, present speech, and even here a blog because no one want to get false information. When getting the false or incorrect information, majority of the people will feel embarrassed for letting this happen in the first place. The task of my assignment, I was a required  to visit a reliable online news article, so I can present any kind of related environmental science news. Before telling you what site I have visited, I will like to present an article called "A New Light Shed On the Genetic History of the European Beavers" by an unknown publisher and published in February 17 2014.

In this scholarly article, an international team of scientist has used detailed analysis of ancient and modern DNA to show that the distribution and lack of genetic diversity among European beavers are due largely to human hunting. University of New York, professor Michi Hofreiter is the leading researcher for his providing on important new insights into the genetic history of the Eurasian beaver Castro fiber. He is a representative of New York's  Department of Biology and University of Potsdam's Faculty of Mathematics and Life Science. Since the beginning of Holocene, a stone engraving at Lake Onegain northern Europe indicates that beavers played a role in human societies from around 3,000-4,000 years ago. Recent studies shows that centuries of human hunting, unchanging climate condition, lack of genetic diversity, lack of geographic distribution of genetic diversity are hurting modern European beavers. Across the Northern continents, human population hunted beavers for their fur, meat, and costoreum. These people used fur for trading commodity, and an anal gland secration often used in traditional medicine.

By the end of 19th century, the Eurasian beaver had disappeared from most of its original range due to human hunting. An estimated recording of 1,200 beavers remains alive.Effective recording, it had lead an awareness to a group of international research scientists to figure out what was the problem. Reported from the Molecular Ecology, the other countries that were involve included Germany, USA, Noway, New Zealand, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands.The team researcher set out to discover whether the lack of genetic diversity and strong phylogeography seen today are the result of its near  extinction or already existed prior to the reduction in its range. These scientist examined DNA's from 48 ancient beaver samples, ranging in age from several hundred to around 11,000 years old, and 152 modern DNA sequences.This experiment took placed in Leipzig a city of Germany. Through the DNA sequencing, scientist said Eurasian beaver can be divided into three distinct groups discovered. The two main ones are Western and Eastern European, and the third is Danube basin. All three are found extinct, yet the Danube basin beaver been extinct only by at least 6,000 years ago.

 I have visited a site called Science Daily, it's one of the Internet's most popular science news web sites. Existed since 1995, Science Daily have been an award winning site. In winning those award, they have gained loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government, agencies, educators and the general public around the world. Amazingly, Science Daily have 3 million monthly visitors, generates nearly, 15 million page views a month, and is steadily in its global audience. This site also have a mission to provide readers with a depth and breathe of breaking news about the latest scientific discoveries. They are user friendly and all freely accessible with no subscription fees. There are over 65,000 researcher articles, 15,000 images, 2,500 encyclopedia entries 1,500 book reviews, and hundreds of educational videos, and it have a lot to offer. For 14 years or more, a writer Dan Hogan founded Science Daily and has been linked to by thousands of schools, and universities, professional associations and research organizations, reference sources and other news services, and increasing bloggers, and social networking and bookmarking sites such as Digg, Facebook, MySpace and Technorati. In addition, Science Daily are highly ranked with web search engines such as Google and Yahoo. There are no fallacies on this article because they have their proper citing such as story source, journal reference, and MLA format of citation. I found this article really interesting on the part of the  diversity impact on Eurasian Beaver, and whether genetic of DNA had played a role. It opened a new eye for myself on the subject of ecology, and it's one of the area in environmental science that I am interested in.
University of York. "New light shed on the genetic history of the European beaver." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 18 February 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140218110932.htm>.

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