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                Its no mystery that habitat loss of organisms in forests can have devastating effects on ecosystems or environments. These forests may be responsible for housing thousands of tiny or big animals/insects to better their survivability. The loss of these forests would severely affect these critters and potentially drive them to ecological extinction in theContinue reading “Relation of Biodiversity, Forest Habitat Loss, and Emergence of Zoonotic Viruses”

                The other film that I thought about nominating was WALL-E, which was directed by Andrew Stanton. The main character of this movie is a robot named WALL-E, which was designed to pick up and clean the trash that humans leave by hand, mainly through littering. As you may already guess, from these pieces ofContinue reading “Alternative Film Festive Nomination”

                After years, and years of using the world known database Wikipedia, I have finally etched myself into history by creating a Wikipedia account! For such a popular website on which millions of people upload information that can be used as sources for papers, it was incredibly easy to create an account. To create anContinue reading “I’m A Wikipedian!“

There are different types of licenses when it comes to availability of data. There is open access and creative commons licenses. An open access license allows articles published under the license to be made freely available online as soon it published, without any payment walls. An example of this would BioMed Central, as it providesContinue reading “Open access, Metadata and Creative Commons Licenses“

When writing lab reports or some form of paper, it is often your professor may require you to use a specific type of source for your report, such as a primary peer-review journal. You may be looking around confused on what these types of sources actually mean. Well lucky for you, I’m here to explainContinue reading “Differences Between Peer-Reviewed Primary, Secondary and Tertiary literature”

One of the other films I considered nominating for the Applied Plant Ecology Film Festival was The Secrete World of Plants which is a documentary by Fernando Rodriguez (2018). The film applies to Applied Plant Ecology because as the name suggests it really goes in depth into many aspects of plant life that are oftenContinue reading “Why I didn’t Select The Secrete Life of Plants for the Applied Plant Ecology Film Festival”

Applied plant ecology focuses on many principles and methods of managing, conserving, and restoring landscapes and ecosystems. In the Studio Ghibli 1984 film, Nausicaä of the Valley the story follows Princess Nausicaa as she strives to repair the relationship between humans and the earth alongside her friends. This film tackles multiple applied plant ecology topicsContinue reading “Movie Review: Nausicaä of the Valley”

     Julie F. Barcelona, born on January 1, 1972 is a Filipino botanist and taxonomist. She is currently working in Christchurch, New Zealand at the University of Canterbury as a Research Associate. She is married to Pieter B. Pelser who is a Lecturer in Plant Systematics and curator of herbarium at the same university. SheContinue reading “Julie F. Barcelona”

Climate change has been a topic worth talking about for years but it seems like nothing has changed and no improvement can be seen. As years go by, the glaciers continue to melt, there have been multiple wild fires and many species of flora and fauna have become endangered. These problems have arose due toContinue reading “United Nations Climate Change”