Talk:Engystomops petersi

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2022
— Assignment last updated by Eurquhart02 (talk) 23:15, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review
I thought that this article contained a lot of very interesting ideas and was overall well written. I fixed the citation footnotes throughout the page (i.e., I moved them to the end of each sentence). Additionally, I combined a few sentences that I thought fit together and added new subheaders. For example, I moved the section "Larval Morphology" to be after "Description and Taxonomy" because it would fit together along the lines of morphological description. I also added the subheader "Genetic Population Structure" under "Habitat and Distribution", and "Genetic Diversity" under "Reproduction and Mating". I rewrote and deleted a few sentences under "Feeding Behavior" to make the section clearer and more concise. I did have a question about some of the information in that section. For instance, you write that the frog has been observed to feed in a semicircular orientation. Is there any significance to this, evolutionary or behavioral? Adding a sentence or two elaborating on some of these claims would greatly improve the article. Finally, many of the headers were not capitalized, and so I went and corrected that. B1deng (talk) 21:29, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review
I made grammar edits, concised the writing, clarified some areas, and changed syntax and flow. I changed the areas that explicitly referred to studies, to just reflect the conclusions of the authors.

For Taxonomy and Description, you could consider moving this to be a new section under Description, followed by Genetics with Heading 1's Phylogeny, then Diversity. If possible, adding a picture of the relevant clade(s) could help with visualizing/understanding the relationships. towards the end you state "distinct from other similar frogs"; which frogs? It may help to add a little information on contrasting frogs.

In Habitat, it could help to put a map of the frog's distribution, if possible.

For Feeding Behavior, if you could give some elaboration on the semicircular feeding formation and reasoning for it, that would be interesting. I also assumed your last bit about feeding on leaf litters is referring to herpetofauna in general; if not, specify this.

In Mating Calls and Female Choice, you talked about calls. Is there any information on the other types of calls this species makes? What behavioral functions do the different types serve? How do species distinguish between each other?

For Genetic Diversity, you mention heterospecifics. Are there any specific examples of this occurring? How is this possible? What behavioral or geographical similarities allow this to occur? Focus more on behavior and explanations, if possible. You state "overall decrease in fertility". Have there been chances of success? When you mention karyotypes, it could be fun to add how many chromosomes frogs have.

In Conservation and Threats, you talk about the trout threat to anuran species. Are there any specific examples of population/species decline due to the novel introduction of rainbow trout? Are there any notable predators? Is this species used or found in the pet or other trades? Towards the end when you talk about the "small region", it may help to add more information on the size, location, etc of this region, in the Habitat section.

Any notable physiological characteristics, especially those that provide a novel advantage not found in similar species? It may help to add information regarding mating, courtship/rituals, clutch/size, parental care, tadpole diet. If there is no literature on these topics, you could state so too. E.g., "As of date, there have been no studies on parental care and mating behaviors of this species."

AnnieLiu13 (talk) 07:54, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Edit
This article was very well written. Apart from the content, the organization of the different topics and headings was a strong point. This article had multiple subheadings under each of the sections making everything easy to read and follow. I separated the section “Taxonomy and Description” because there were two distinct paragraphs within that section talking about different things, so I thought separating them into their own header would make it an easier read. One area that I think could use improvement is the “Habitat and Distribution Specification” section. The overall global distribution of these frogs was done very well. However, I think there could be a lot more information about the specific habitat and surroundings of these frogs. The only information that was provided was that they live in the leaf litter along forest edges. However, there was lots of information that could have been added. For example, they could have added whether or not they like to live in groups, what kind of temperature or climate they prefer, how this habitat is beneficial to them, etc. I added information about their habitats and how they use their environment. I also went through and fixed some of the grammar and writing to make the article flow better. Other than that, I think this was a very well-done article. Jumpingfrogprincess (talk) 06:24, 20 November 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.252.230.141 (talk)