Forestry 212 Gymnosperm report

The paper should cite at least three credible, peer-reviewed articles as references. The first paper will focus on a gymnosperm species. The objectives of the paper are for students to learn about current management and scientific issues and challenges in forestry, the depth of information available for most tree species, the scientific process that creates such information, and to develop specialized knowledge and skills in electronic searches for scientific information.  The paper should describe and synthesize the topic in the student’s own words. The grade for the paper will be based on the following criteria: completeness 75% (to what degree was the assignment fully completed), writing quality 25% (appropriate use of paragraphs with topic sentences, complete sentences with few writing errors and misspellings).  Use the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Style Manual  as a guide for how to correctly cite your three articles.  Please use the name-year system (for example, Smith and Jones 1990) in the text with a full citation at the end of your paper.  See the example below for how to cite your journal articles; both in text and in the literature cited section.

In-text reference: (Meise et al. 2003)

Reference list example: 

Meise CJ, Johnson DL, Stehlik LL, Manderson J, Shaheen P. 2003. Growth rates of juvenile Winter Flounder under varying environmental conditions. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 132(2):225-345.