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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Article Title:
Sequoioideae
Article Evaluation: There was a decent amount of information, but I expected it to be more. More can be added about their role within their ecosystem and specific adaptations because they're endemic (ex: their adaptions with fog as their primary water source). I could also add more to the "conservation" portion of the page and touch on more specific details of the trees.
Sources:
Noss, Reed F. The Redwood Forest : History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods. Washington, D.C: Island Press, 2000. Print.
Dawson, T.E. “Fog in the California Redwood Forest: Ecosystem Inputs and Use by Plants.” Oecologia 117.4 (1998): 476–485. Web.

Article title:
Sequoia sempervirens
Article Evaluation:This is a much more developed article than the other redwood one. I could add more about how tourism and colonialism have impacted the redwood forests. I could also add more about endemic species that live in redwood forests that should have been included on that page. There is a lot of niche information that I could add in chapter 26 of the Ecosystems of California book that is listed as my second source.
Sources:

Walter, Pierre. “Settler Colonialism and the Violent Geographies of Tourism in the California Redwoods.” Tourism geographies 25.1 (2023): 243–264. Web.
Mooney, Harold, and Todd E Dawson. “TWENTY-SIX. Coast Redwood Forests.” Ecosystems of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 535–552. Web.

Article Title:
Sambucus
Article Evaluation: This article has interesting facts, but it could be more robust. I could add more details about human consumption's health benefits. I could also add more details to each category because there is room for more information, and my second source has a lot of cool facts and details about blue elderberry!
Sources:
Liu, Dan et al. “Elderberry (Sambucus Nigra L.): Bioactive Compounds, Health Functions, and Applications.” Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 70.14 (2022): 4202–4220. Web.
Vaghti, Mehrey G et al. “Understanding the Ecology of Blue Elderberry to Inform Landscape Restoration in Semiarid River Corridors.” Environmental management (New York) 43.1 (2009): 28–37. Web.