Talk:Eucalyptus wandoo/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 09:26, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

This is an informative and mainly well-cited article, and I've basically got few comments to make.

Small fixes
I've made some tiny fixes to grammar and punctuation.


 * "as a part of one of Oldfield's numerous collections in the south western parts of Western Australia." --- this aside makes the sentence it's attached to very long, and it doesn't even seem relevant.
 * removed. Hughesdarren (talk) 22:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Amino acid names eg aspartic acid, glutamic acid, proline, arginine should all be in lower case.
 * Fixed. Hughesdarren (talk) 22:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Same for rufous treecreeper.
 * Fixed. Hughesdarren (talk) 22:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


 * "The pollen immigration of smaller fragmented populations are found to have up to 65% of pollen sourced from other populations that are located at a distance of over 1 km (0.62 mi) apart.[13]" is not clear; suggest you simplify or split the sentence and explain what you mean by "pollen immigration". On third reading, I guess you mean nothing more than that up to 65% of pollination is from remote populations.
 * Reworded to "Up to 65% of pollen that is transferred to plants in fragmented populations is sourced from other populations that are located at a distance of over 1 km (0.62 mi) apart." Is that better? Hughesdarren (talk) 02:42, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Several portrait-format images require the "|upright" parameter.
 * Fixed. Hughesdarren (talk) 02:42, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Comments

 * The main thing I'm missing here is discussion of phylogeny, ideally with a cladogram showing the tree's relatives and ancestry. The second-last paragraph of "Taxonomy" makes some slight gesture in that direction but something more tangible would be desirable.
 * I've made a search and can't find anything suitable, so we'll have to wait for some PhD to work on the subject.


 * On salinity levels, some brief gloss to say whether 50-100 mS/m is high compared to other trees (or ecosystems), i.e. is this a valuable species for salt-infested places, would be useful.
 * Added "It is regarded as moderately salt tolerant species when compared to other species of Eucalyptus that are endemic to Western Australia", which was all I could find in the references that relates specifically to wandoo. I will keep looking for a general statement of what is regarded as high salinity levels. Hughesdarren (talk) 03:08, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * That's sufficient.