Journal Analysis

Journal Analysis

Question 1:
What is the purpose of each of the following sections in the paper?
• Title –
• Authors –
• Abstract –
• Introduction –
• Methods –
• Results –
• Discussion –
• Conclusions –
• Acknowledgements –
• References –

Question 2:

From what journal was this article taken and in what year was it published?
Question 3:
Who was/is Aldo Leopold? (You might need to use resources beyond the Binkley article to answer this question)

Question 4:
Binkley his co-authors suggest that the Kaibab deer population irrupted in the 1920s. Why do they believe this happened?

Question 5:
Define “irruption”.

Question 6:
What was the paper’s primary hypothesis? (On what page did you find this information?)
Question 7:
Which five “lines of evidence” did the authors use to “support the overall Kaibab deer story”?

Question 8:
Figure 3 shows the tree age versus diameter. How did the authors determine the age of the trees?
Question 9:
Why would the authors want to know how old trees of different sizes are?
Question 10:
Figures 6 and 7 show tree age structure (the number of trees that started growing each year since 1925 and were still present when they collected their data) for trees at the Quaking Aspen Ranger Station and the Mann deer exclosure. Why do the authors believe that no trees established outside of Mann Exclosure #28 until 1965?

Question 11:
Why do the authors include a section on uncertainties?

Question 12:
Overall, what are the main conclusions of this paper? Where did you find that information?

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