Author Archives: aashipanesar

 The wikipedia page I edited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_fragmentation  I completed all of the training modules required for Wikipedia training and thoroughly went through each example which altogether took me an hour to complete them all. With that being said, they are informational and are essential to go through before even beginning to edit on Wikipedia. I wasContinue reading “Wikipedia Follow-Up”

To begin with, the purpose of a primary, secondary, or even a tertiary article is to provide information about a topic. The way in which the information is conveyed, differ amongst these three types of sources. Primary sources are defined to be the work which is directly done by the author themselves such as, aContinue reading “Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Articles”

In 1996, an ecologist, Dr. Jean Langenheim began a project named, “women ecologists” by sending letters to various women who were studying and practicing in the field of ecology in the United States of America.  “In 1988 I hoped that there would be no further need to discuss the contributions of women ecologists because weContinue reading “Women in STEM, specifically Ecology”

Applied plant ecology focuses around the main topic of promoting and learning how to conserve the environment. In 2008, Disney Pixar studios released a film named, Wall-E,which in my opinion has been one of the most underrated movies targeted towards younger audiences – importantly their families. It is important for films to target younger audiences asContinue reading “How the Disney Pixar film: Wall-E relates to Applied Plant Ecology”

The United Nations came out with an article addressing the global issue of Climate Change. I raised emphasis, because this is a defining issue of our era, with fast-changing weather patterns that altogether affect sustainable food production, additional rising sea levels – collectively increasing the risk of flooding.  The UN has divided their article into individualContinue reading “United Nations: Climate Change – Global Epidemic”

Pattison et al, conducted research on the Growth, biomass allocation and photosynthesis of invasive and native Hawaiian rainforest species, in the year of 1998 (the year I was born!).          This primary research article is based on a study done on the growth, biomass allocation, and photosynthetic characteristics of seedlings of five invasive non-indigenous and four native speciesContinue reading “Invasive and native Hawaiian Rainforest species”