TEMPLATE FOR REPORTS, AND FURTHER GUIDELINES
Note: This page was provided in early March. Students copied the source HTML. They were allowed to make minor variations in it (e.g. in background, placement of photos, organization of Facts and Figures ), but were required to stick to the overall organization. Guidelines are given within each section below; these indicate what was expected in regard to content.
Prepared by Phil Mac Seed
Agroecosystems Group 7
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Back to Agroecosystems Home PageOverview
This section should be written in paragraphs or in bullet form, each one covering one of your main themes, and providing appropriate links to your glossary, to other pages on the Agroecsosystems site, and to other URLs. Write the theme paragraphs initally putting terms that would be links to pages or points within our site in bold print; insert full URLs for external links, or for the time being just bold them. A paragraph from Mac Seed's page follows...
The vegetation of cultivated fields includes crops that develop from seeds sown by the farmer, and weeds that develop from seeds originally brought into the field by wind or wildlife, or as contaminants in the crop seed. An important difference between the seeds of these two groups is the high degree of dormancy found in in most weed seeds, and the lack of dormancy in most crop species, except for many self-seeding pasture species (( Mac Seed will put the preceeding bolded terms in his glossary)). The dormant seeds contribute to the seedbank, which according to the Johnny Apple Seed Society......
Key facts and figures
| VARIABLE | VALUE & UNITS | SOURCE |
| Typical weed seed density in cultivated soil | 6000-75,000/m2 | Hill et. al., 1998 |
| Typical no. weed species in seedbank | 20-100/m2 | Hill et. al., 1988 |
Important terms
- Subject title
- Explanation or definition of the subject will often be indented
- Subject title 2
- Another definition of the subject
Useful literature
This list should include 3-10 useful refs., i.e. ones that would be particularly helpful to a reader pursuing your topic in more depth. Be thoughtful and selective about what you list. Don't include literature that would be very difficult to obtain. They should be items you have examined. Initially include Novanet Call Nos. If there is a lit. item that you think is important but you have only seen it referred to, double asterisk it.Use our standard format: (from HO 14):
Smith, R.D., Donald, S.R., and MacSeed, P. 1990. The viability of bean seeds in sandy loam soil at Upper Hayfield, Nova Scotia. Journal of Seed Viability Science 154: 55-66. [Spell out full name of journals]
Smith, R.D., Donald, S.R., and MacSeed, P. 1990. The viability of corn seeds in sandy loam soil at Upper Hayfield, Nova Scotia. In: P. MacSeed (ed.), Seed Viability. Hayfield Press, Upper Hayfield, Nova Scotia, Canada, pp. 41-47. [Capitalize first letter of title words, except for the, a, of; for chapters or journal articles, capitalize only first letter of first word unless it is a proper name]
MacSeed, P. 1990. Collecting Seeds. John Wiley and Sons, New York. [For major cities, country is not required, if obscure, include state and country]
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Useful links
Be thoughtful and selective about what you list; avoid sites that are here to day, gone tomorrow; consider reliability of the information provided at the site.
When citing of URLs, include the title bar or title caption for the page in CAPS, and provide some additional description if that is not self-explanatory, e.g. "... a good source of germination data is Mac Seed's SEEDINFO (http://www.seednet.net/staff/~MacSeed/germ.htm)
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Cited Literature
List literature that you specifically cite on your page, e.g. as a source of certain data in the key facts and figures table. Use standard format. If there is overlap with your Useful literature citations, repeat it for now