User:AMB15111/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Aquatic-terrestrial subsidies
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate.
 * I chose this topic because I found it fascinating. When I think of common pollution pathways, I picture pollution flowing from terrestrial into aquatic environments through run-off or soil erosion or contaminants being dumped directly in aquatic ecosystems. I never really considered that contaminants could move from aquatic environments into terrestrial ones, so I was interested to learn more.

Lead



 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Yes
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * For most of the sections
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * No
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?
 * no

Content
The article always stay relevant to topic and has recent information from scientific papers from the last 5 years. The content is very thorough, however the ecotoxicology element, how polluted aquatic subsidies move into terrestrial environments barely mentioned. In addition, there is a lack of contact on how pollution affects underrepresented populations.

Tone and Balance
The article has a neutral tone, while it reports information on the topic from scientific sources.

Sources and References
The article is backed up by reliable secondary sources from a variety of scientific journals. The range of the articles is from the mid-2000s to 2018.
 * Guiding questions

Organization
It is very concise and well-written, explaining complicated scientific terms and ecology to the general public. The subheadings split up the broader topic into digestible bits that summarize the major aspects of aquatic-terrestrial subsidies like what a resource subsidy is, aquatic subsidies, terrestrial subsidies and their ecological importance.

Images and media evaluation
There are no images.

Talk page evaluation
There is one comment talking about the edits they made for a class WikiProject.The article is rated Stub-class, High Importance. It is part of WikiProject Ecology, WikiProject Environment, Wiki Project Articles for creation, and WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography

Overall impressions
I think this is a well-developed, informative article that explains the ecology of aquatic-terrestrial subsidies well to the average reader. The article's strengths are the detail and quality of the writing, quantity of sources and quality information it provides. It can be improved and completed by adding an ecotoxicology portion that explores how pollution movement and magnification through aquatic subsidies.