Talk:Marajó Bay (Brazil)

External Review
Hello Plewis77 - My name is Jolie, and I'm the Project Coordinator for the WikiProject Limnology & Oceanography team. Your external review for your article on Marajo Bay has been posted below. If you have any questions about your review, or would like to clarify anything, please feel free to get in touch with me by leaving a message on my talk page, and I'll pass it along to your external reviewer. Thanks, and all the best as you wrap up your Wikipedia editing assignment!

EXTERNAL REVIEW

About the reviewer: My name is Tricia Thibodeau and I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rhode Island, School of Oceanography. I received my Ph.D. from William & Mary studying Antarctic plankton. I consider myself a biological oceanographer and my research focuses on phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology from the Southern Ocean to the Northeast United States.

Marajó Bay

Infobox: This is included and presents a useful way for the reader to navigate through the page.

Overview: Overall, this section is a solid summary of the Bay. A few small formatting sections need to be addressed before publication (underlining of 4,500 km and the parenthetical statement that says what was kept from the original post). Quotations can be removed from “estuarine system” and “circulation process” since citations for these words are provided in the text. I suggest combining the two sentences describing circulation process and change some of the words to read something similar to, “Marajó Bay represents the location where the Pará River and salt water from the Atlantic Ocean meet, resulting in a unique circulation process.” I find the word ‘circulation process’ somewhat vague. What are the components of this process? How is the water circulating?

Ecology: This paragraph is a concise summary of the biology and ecology of the Bay and I liked the photos used. Also, “Estuarine” doesn’t need to be capitalized. Finally, the second sentence should begin with, “There are many different…”

Human use: This is a concise summary of some of the potential effects of human use on the Bay. Did the authors find any evidence for eutrophication or pollution of the Bay due to human use? This is often a side effect of estuaries with high human use.

Gallery/Images: The photos of the fish found in the Bay and the map of the Amazon mouth were useful additions to the page. Is there a way to format the photo placement of Bagre Bagre and the Mouth of the Amazon so that they’re solely within the section they’re referenced in and not besides the following section? Also, if there was a way to note the location of the Bay within the Mouth of the Amazon photo that would be useful.

References: References are legitimate and necessary information provided with correct reference formatting used. There is some text at the beginning of the bibliology that should be removed before publication.

JoGDelta (talk) 20:30, 12 April 2021 (UTC)