User talk:Bklsmith

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Review for "Ecosystem Respiration" page additions

Hi Bklsmith - good job editing the page on ecosystem respiration! You've added a lot of useful information to this page. What follows is a review by an external reviewer who based their comments on the version of your page that's available at this link.

Reviewer comments:

You have done a nice job of improving the Wikipedia page, and your revised page has a nice outline. Below I have some specific suggestions for each of the sections:

Lead section

The second sentence in this section repeats text in the first and third sentence, so I suggest deleting it.
In the third sentence, change “factors” to “processes”.
The fourth sentence would be improved by removing, “These two processes are the exact opposite of one another” (I know what you mean, but this might be confusing to the readers who aren’t familiar with how the inputs and outputs of photosynthesis and respiration work).

Overview

The first sentence should be broad to summarize ecosystem respiration rather than honing in on cellular respiration. You can improve this paragraph by starting out with what ecosystem respiration is (you did a good job in the very first sentence of the page), but perhaps this time mention how the relationship between autotrophs and heterotrophs work in coordination between photosynthesis and respiration as they both produce products that the other process utilizes. This could be a way to segue into the next sentence where you can go into details of photosynthesis and cellular respiration and the inter relationship between the processes.
In the sentence, “This carbon is cycled throughout the ecosystem as various factors continue to uptake or release the carbon in different circumstances” you can remove the “This” at the beginning of the sentence.
In the sentence, “The ecosystem takes in carbon through photosynthesis, decomposition, and ocean uptake”, I suggest taking out “The” at the beginning of the sentence and saying that “Ecosystems take in carbon through …..uptake” in order to show that you are talking about multiple examples of ecosystems.
In the following sentence, “The ecosystem returns this carbon through animal respiration, plant respiration, and auto/factory emissions” I would make “Ecosystems” plural at the beginning of the sentence and would be inclined to remove the “auto/factory emissions” as this deals with human input to ecosystems that is above and beyond ecosystem respiration in the natural sense.

Importance

The sentence, “The amount of carbon released into the atmosphere through ecosystem respiration is the second most carbon flux after photosynthesis” needs to be clarified. I think what you meant to say was, “In natural ecosystems, the greatest utilization of carbon is through the uptake of carbon in photosynthesis and the second greatest utilization of carbon is through the release of carbon in cellular respiration." I hope this makes sense. Double check to make sure that your citation did not include anthropogenic emissions in this statement. If it did then you need to rethink how to approach presenting this.
In the second sentence, I would reword “systems” as “processes”, as you referred to both photosynthesis and respiration as processes above. Also, note that carbon dioxide does not have a hyphen.
In the fifth sentence, “Prior to these processes in earth's yearly years of formation”, the italicized word should be early.
In the sentence “… majorly consisting of microbes”, you can qualify the microbes by adding the word anaerobic in front of microbes (microbes respiring without oxygen).
The last sentence is a nice summary. I would however suggest adding photosynthesis and respiration before processes to read “This coevolution of ….photosynthesis and respiration processes…”

Figure

If possible, replace with a figure that doesn’t include factory emissions in the schematic, so as to focus on natural ecosystem processes only.

I hope the above is helpful as you wrap up your edits on your Wikipedia page! If you have any questions about this review, please let me know and I'll help you contact the reviewer. JoGDelta (talk) 02:52, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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