User:LorenaPS/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioacoustics

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am interested in bioacoustics. I believe it is a topic relatively poor understood and that is been more researched over the recent years so I was curious to read this article. My preliminary impression of it was that the article was well summarized and did a great job at catching the reader attention.

Evaluate the article
The article has a clear structure and good use of the written language. The lead section defines well what bioacoustics is and makes for a excellent introduction. The content of the entire article was good because it provides enough information in a summarized form that does not overwhelm the reader. The “importance” section, however, could include more information of the importance of bioacoustics to organisms other than marine animals. For instance, how the understanding of land animals (bats, birds, elephants, insects) bioacoustics can help us better protect them through conservation strategies – there are many recent studies addressing this issue in those taxa. The overall tone and balance of the article is quite neutral, but again, it would improve by offering some more examples that does not refer to water acoustic communication solely. Sources of research used are great, and images are relevant to the article. In general, the article is a great summary, easy to read and understand, so a reader with few knowledge about bioacoustics can get a great sense of what this study aims and methods are. It is a great quality article.