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Citation

Provide the citation and web link (doi) to your article. For more information, tips, and tutorials about communicating science, see the links below.

http://thescientistvideographer.com/wordpress

Conclusions

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-scientist-videographer/id749398300?mt=11

Describe your study's overall conclusion or "take-home message". If you posed a question or hypothesis, provide an answer here. You might also explain the significance of your findings, implications for the field of study, or practical applications. Use video with the lead author appearing on camera or a photograph illustrating a key point.

Intact mangrove forests have kept pace with rising sea level for thousands of years through peat formation. Clear-cutting or other disturbance leads to subsidence and erosion.

Main Findings

Photo by K.L. McKee

Briefly show or explain your results, preferably using a single graphic or table. Do not cut and paste from your paper—create a new graphic that is visually compelling and understandable on its own.

The Template

The free template used to create this visual abstract can be downloaded here:

http://prezi.com/moo6lptznoto/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Embed the visual abstract tutorial:

<iframe src="http://prezi.com/embed/moo6lptznoto/?bgcolor=ffffff&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;autohide_ctrls=0&amp;features=undefined&amp;disabled_features=undefined" width="550" height="400" frameBorder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozAllowFullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>

Please consider leaving this frame intact so that others may easily find and use this template.

Illustration based on McKee et al. (2007) Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 545-556.

Materials & Methods

Use text, images, animations, and/or video to illustrate how you conducted the study. Keep it brief unless the method is the main focus of your study.

Sampling

Sub-sampling

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Analysis

Photo by K.L. McKee

Photo by USGS

Study Site/

Experimental Facility

Use maps, satellite images, or photographs to show where your study was conducted. Use embedded images to take the viewer on a brief tour of your study site.

Aim of Research

Site 1

Photo by K.L. McKee

Site 2

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Site 3

Photo by K.L. McKee

Provide a brief statement (one or two sentences) that explains the overall goal of your work or the hypothesis tested. Elaborate using visual media (images, video, or animations), which may contain embedded text and images to delve deeper into the topic.

Image: USGS LandsatLook Viewer

How do mangrove forests keep up with rising sea-level?

Hypothesis: Mangrove forests in the Caribbean Region

have kept pace with sea-level rise primarily through slow

accumulation of organic matter (peat).

Photo by K.L. McKee

2. Substitute your text

and media in these frames.

3. Remove these directions by selecting the frame and "delete".

Acquire visual media.

Replace template images

and text with your own.

Why use

Prezi?

Overview

What is a visual abstract?

Why should I make a

visual abstract?

Begin by identifying the key points to cover.

Click any image or text box to replace or edit

Grab the Viewer's Attention

How to Replace Background Image

A visual abstract is a brief description of an article created with visual media instead of text.

-What is your article about?

-What did your study find?

-What is new or innovative?

-Why is your study important

(to the viewer)?

This template may be used to create a visual abstract for a research article. Substitute your text and media in provided placeholders. Strive to keep the viewing time below five minutes.

Open Themes, then select Customize Current Theme

Use your own or locate media online (be sure to obtain permission from the copyright owner and any identifiable people visible in photographs or videos).

Visual abstracts help raise the online visibility of a published article and its authors.

With Prezi, an author can create a unique visual tour of a study. The multi-dimensional, non-linear canvas is well-suited to complex science topics.

Photo by K.L. McKee

Photo by I.C. Feller

Photo by K.L. McKee

Click 3D Background image and select photo from your file, then Done

Begin your visual abstract by describing what is new or innovative about your research, by providing an interesting fact about your research topic or study organism, by putting your work into a historical perspective, or by using some other opening that will capture and hold the viewer's attention.

Photo by K.L. McKee

You can insert a brief video into your visual abstract. In the menu bar, select Insert and YouTube video or a video file on your computer. Video files saved as .flv work well. See example below (mouse over to see controls).

How to Create a Visual Abstract for a Research Article

Karen L. McKee

1. Substitute your title

and name here

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