User talk:Bpm83/Insect ecology

Peer Review

General:

Your article is laid out very well
Your writing is clear and easy to understand
You do a good job of highlighting the importance of this topic (insects are the backbone of all ecosystems and species interactions!!!)
My only major suggestions have to do with grammar: there are some sentences that can be reworked for clarity

Lead:

Your lead is a good overview of what is about to be covered in the article

Content:

I really like all the examples you give for each species interaction; they help me contextualize the importance of insects in ecosystems

Tone and Balance:

Your tone is neutral! No bias

Sources and references:

Your content is heavily cited and you include appropriate hyperlinks

Maya.hb (talk) 16:52, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Peer Review

Your article does a good job at concisely explaining the differing types of interactions insects experience. Your examples did a good job of tying you definitions back to the topic of insects and made the topics more comprehensible overall.

As for your lead, it thoroughly discusses the contents of the article. It thoroughly discusses all topics and does a good job at introducing your audience to your topic in a balanced manner. As for your main content, the information is easy to follow and the examples you give make the information more digestible. Your Images also help your section blend in well with the rest of the article and the organization of placing all your information under Interspecific relationships is a nice touch.

Overall your article is great. though there are some grammar issues, consider changing:

"More specifically, insects participate in mutualism, amensalism, commensalism, coevolution." by adding and

"An example of this is competition, especially where one organism deprives the other of resources." Wording of this is a bit odd.

Your content is a really solid add to the piece and gives the relationships between bugs and other organisms good context.

EmilyM04 (talk) 21:52, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EmilyM04 (talk) 21:49, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

some comments

"Insects are diverse in their function, diets, and lifestyles, which leads them to be integral components" -- this sounds very intentional on the part of the insects. I'd suggest considering instead something like "Due to their diverse functions... insects are integral..."

-"It is not exclusive to certain types of living organisms, as mutualism can be seen between fish or between mammals and bacteria." -- I think you should stick to the insects since you are writing in the insect ecology article.

In the amensalism section, competition is not normally considered to be an example of amensalism, because both organisms usually suffer in competition. The definition of amensalism (as you correctly state) is that only one organism suffers. I guess your goat example could be a decent example of amensalism. I'm not sure how ecologically important this type of interaction is however.

Parasitoids: "In others, the organism leads a specific parasitoid lifestyle." -- not sure what this means

The organization is a little strange. Coevolution (and arguably parasitoid insects) don't really belong in the same category as your other subject headings in the new section you added. (Because coevolution isn't a type of interaction, it's a process that structures all of the interactions). It would be better to describe why coevolution is so important in the study of insect ecology, rather than just mentioning that it's "a common concept in biology" and the diving into examples. The examples here are good but aren't well connected to each other beanstash (talk) 03:16, 3 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]