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Ecology Writing Guide |
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Title
Choose a title that succinctly describes the project. A good title describes the topic studied and includes important keywords (e.g. the specific organism, location):
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It may describe the topic and the results:
Titles can pose a question:
Sometimes jokes or plays on words seem to work well, but they may not make sense to international readers, or your sense of humour may not match that of your reader!
Hegland, S. J., Nielsen, A., Lázaro, A., Bjerknes, A.-L. & Totland, Ø. (2009). How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions? Ecology Letters, 12, 184-195.
Pezzo, F., Olmastroni, S., Corsolini, S. & Focardi, S. (2001). Factors affecting the breeding success of the south polar skua Catharacta maccormicki at Edmonson Point, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 24(6), 389-393.
Shuttleworth, A. & Johnson, S. D. (2010) The missing stink: sulphur compounds can mediate a shift between fly and wasp pollination systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277(1695), 2811-2819.
Whitaker, D. L. & Edwards, J. (2010) Sphagnum moss disperses spores with vortex rings. Science, 329, 406.
