unit 4-2 (2-24-09)

1. What is the main subject of your question?
   
   human involvement
   animal habitats
   
   
2. 
   What subject guide or guides did you use to identify the relevant databases for your question?
   
   environment
3. what subject guide or guides did you use to identify the revant databases for your question?
   
   environment studies

database 1

1. 
   Which database did you choose for your search?
   
   

   Social Sciences Citation Index

2. 
   What terms did you enter to conduct your search?
   
   animal AND habitat AND environment
   all under topic and from 1995-2009 time line
   
   
3. How many results did you retrieve?
   
   36
   
   
4. 
   If there were more than about 100 results, how did you refine your search terms to narrow your results?
   
   at first there was more than 100 results then i added more keywords and reduced the time frame to narrow the search down to a more recent time than in the distant past.
   
   
5. 
   Once you got your results to around 100 (or fewer), how did you determine they were meaningful?
   
   i determine that they were meaningful because they all had information about different animals and their habitats. it would not matter what kind of animal i was looking up but what information i could find about their habitat.
   
   
6. 
   Which article did you choose? Give the bibliographic information for that article (I must be able to access this article).
   
   Co-existence of divergent communities at natural boundaries: spider (Arachnida: Araneae) diversity across an alpine timberline
   
   author-Muff, Patrick), Kropf, Christian, Frick, Holger,Nentwig, WolfgangSchmidt-Entling, Martin H.
   Source: INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY
   Volume: 2
   Issue: 1
   Pages: 36-44
   Published: FEB 2009
   Document Type: Article
   
   
7. 
   How did you determine these articles were meaningful?
   
   i thought this artical was important because it has information about how human impact has affected the way spiders claim their boundries and this artical explains how human decision are a spiral effect on everything around us.
   

database 2

1. Which database did you choose for your search?
   
   

   Academic Search Premier
   
   

2. What terms did you enter to conduct your search?
   
   animal AND habitat AND environment(SU subject terms)
   from jan 1995- jan 2009
   
   

3. How many results did you retrieve?
   
   13
   
   

4. If there were more than about 100 results, how did you refine your search terms to narrow your results?
   
   at first i tried the just use animal and habittat but that gave me more than 2000+ results so i added the environment and then it narrowed the search the 13
   
   
5. Once you got your results to around 100 (or fewer), how did you determine they were meaningful?
   
   these results are meaningful because it has information on what kind of habitats there are and some information around the world on how human have been disturbing the ballence
   
   
6. Which article did you choose? Give the bibliographic information for that article (I must be able to access this article).
   
   Number of species at risk in UK doubles in 13 years.
   document type- article
   company/entry- great britain. dept. for environment, food and rural affairs
   issn-00306053
   doi-10.101 7/s003060530704 1427
   accession number-28159967
   
   
7. How did you determine these articles were meaningful?
   
   i found this artical meaningful because it has information about how as human who are destroying the habitats for other living thing all around us are being effected and all connected in a chain that is spiraling downwards from one single action to another.