Talk:Polar ecology

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 January 2019 and 9 April 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Greenham22, Carbohydrate Fatty acid.

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"And because Antarctica is closer to the sun, it receives 7% more radiation than the Antarctic". ????!!! Huh? The sentence makes no sense. If a contrast is being drawn between Arctic and Antarctic, then it should be stated that one pole is closer during that hemisphere's summer or winter. Earth's orbit is not a circle, so aphelion will be associated with either summer or winter in the respective hemispheres. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.48.212.99 (talk) 01:03, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That was supposed to say Arctic and I fixed it with a reference. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 04:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Temperatures in the Arctic have a higher range than in the Antarctic. Temperatures can range as much as 100 °C. ??? Not centigrade, which would be boiling. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.48.212.99 (talk) 01:07, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That's correct. It does not say that anywhere in the Arctic reaches 100 C as no place in the world gets that hot. You are not noticing the word range so a range of 100 C-change is correct. Look at the last two sentences in the same paragraph, "reached the coldest temp of -68.8 C" and "summer in Siberia can get to 36 C". That's a range of 104.8 C-change. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 04:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

"Because of its cold temperature much of the earth's water comes from the polar regions." "Comes from" or "is currently sequestered in"? That is two very different things. Also, this article suffers from relentless abuse of matching of singulars and plurals in the subject and verb, and between clauses: "Arctic regions are in the Northern Hemisphere, and it contains land..." either "the Arctic region... contains", or "and they contain...". There are just too many of these errors for me to fix today, no point in doing just a few of them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.59.130 (talk) 07:37, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

This article has quite a few grammatical issues. In a number of instances, the author switches between plural and singular verbs to describe a subject, and there are incomplete sentences as well. Additionally, throughout sections of the article there is repetition and some unnecessary information. This article could be edited to be more concise and clear. Greenham22 (talk) 16:07, 30 January 2019 (UTC)greenham22

Below is my evaluation of the following questions in alignment with EEB 5611 (Biogeochemical Processes) course requirements (University of Minnesota): Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? The article's content is moderately relevant to the topic (i.e., Polar ecology = interactions between/within communities of organisms and responses to environmental inputs), though it strays from ecology by describing non-biological events climate trends, water storage/release, conservation approaches, etc. A possible improvement would be to bring Vegetation and Animal sections to the forefront—providing explicit (+ backed) examples of ecological relationships in the context of environmental extremes categorized as 1) oceanic and 2) terrestrial. Including a section titled Importance may be beneficial as well (e.g., what is the importance of understanding interactions within polar ecosystems?).Chrishansen4 (talk) 05:03, 12 March 2023 (UTC)