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Rosa rugosa

Rosa Rugosa commonly known Beach rose is is a deciduous shrub belonging to the Roasaceae family and the Dicot family. R. Rugosa is also known as Japanese rose, Turkestan rose and Rugose rose ,

The Japanese rose is native to Eastern Russia, Korea, Japan and Northern China. It was introduced into Europe around 1770 and in the United States for such a long time that people have believe that it is native to New England. The plant was found in Nantucket in 1899 and was spreading rapidly by 1911. By 1920, the Rose had been established in Nantucket and in Connecticut. The specie was able to spread due to birds and animals that eat the berries from the bush and people buying the rose and taking it with them overseas.

Description
The plant can grow between 4-6 ft and spread as far as 4-6 ft. The bloom time is usually from May to July and portrays a pink to white colour when in bloom. It has 5-9 leaflets that are alternating on a stem. Each leaflet is about 2-5 cm by 1.3-3 cm long. Each leaf is a elliptical in shape with a rounded base or broadly cuneate with a leather feel, dark green top. The back of the leaf is composed of a green-grey colour with hair along the veins. The leaf margin is composed of teeth along the edges and is crenate-serrate. The flower has five petals that are usually 6-9 cm in width. The flower is composed of 200-250 stamens per flow and vary in style.

Invasive Species
The specie was able to spread due to birds and animals that eat the berries from the bush and people buying the rose and taking it with them overseas. Gardners had the plant planted along highways due to its high ability to be salt-tolerant. The species can be found in many different types of settings such as coastal beach, dunes, open areas, yards and gardens. To further understand the invasive process, rugosa, was first introduced into England from Japan in 1976, and then in Germany in 1845. This was the first presence of the flower within the European continent.In 1875, Rosa rugosa was found in Denmark and then in Sweden in 1918. By 2001, the flower species had become well established within 61 European countries.

Economic Effects

This type of plant species are known to be large and attractive flowers, hence why it is commonly used as a windbreaker or to create hedges. Interested buyers of this plant can purchase the plant from any plant nurseries and can be used for breeding purposes of other types of roses. The rose rugosa is good at controlling erosion which is why it is commonly placed along highways and within the city of Germany and Norway.

Health Effects

There has been no negative effects on human health besides allergies such as pollen or fragrance of rose

Reflective Essay
I am glad that I was given the opportunity to work on an article with Wikipedia in order for them to improve their site. I was surprised to learn that many wikipedia articles are not successfully completed and many of them still require a lot of work done to them. It was interesting to note that many of the articles I read for this assignment portrayed a neutral tone.

The article that I choose to edit is the invasive species called the Rosa Rugosa. The article had a low rating and I decided to increase the rating by adding more information to it. I rearranged the layout of the article from its original state because the layout was something that I did not favour. I looked at another invasive species article (the giant hogweed) on wikipedia and used that layout to guide my layout. I included a life cycle heading, taxonomy and naming, cultivation and uses, and plan on adding more headings in order to create more of an organized layout.

Unfortunately, my article was not chosen to get peer reviewed, however I did peer review other people’s articles in my sandbox and I enjoyed how some of the articles were written. I did give advice on some heading names and what sections the authors should include more information on.

I got to learn a significant amount of information on the invasive species, Rosa Rugosa. I felt like I made a important contribution because if people are confused on the topic, they can reference my article. Invasive species are often misunderstood as native species and it is key to not that the plant has migrated to the new place. This assignment was a little challenging to do because my other assignments require me to do some analysis within my writing pieces based on my findings but for this assignment I did not need to do analysis in order to avoid a bias tone.

Peer Review Articles: Plastic Soup
This article does not provide enough information to its readers. The first sentence states how the pollution causes harm to the animals due to the break down or photo degradation of plastic but does not go in any details. I would like the writer to incorporate a paragraph of the insight of what animals are being harmed, how are they being harmed and the chemical break down of the plastic. The article mentions the Plastic Soup Foundation but it does not go into any depth about it. I feel like there can be more said about that foundation.

I like how the article does not display a bias tone. The tone sounds professional and can be more informative.

Peer Review Articles: Marine Ecosystem
This article is written quite well. I like how informative it is and how it tells me about the different types of Marine ecosystems. However to add some criticism, the author should change the subheading "types" to maybe something like "Different Types of Marine Ecosystems" to make it more clear to the readers. The article was kept at a neutral tone. I like how there is a part on threats to marine ecosystems which shows that the author went above and beyond.

Finalizing a topic
An invasive species: Rosa rugosa

Adding Citations
Sobat River

In 1927, about half-a million people had been displaced due to thousands of homes being destroyed by leeves that failed and caused a flood. The damage had caused the state a third of their federal budget during 1927.

By using an empirical nitrate model based on landcover and runoff, the researchers were able to conclude that the export of nitrate by the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico had tripled since 1950s because of agricultural fertilizers and changes in the hydrological cycle.

Desertification in Oltenia
This article has very little information about the topic. The article just claims what is happening and there is no information about how it happened and if there are any ongoing projects occurring in order to restore the area. The author only used 1 source and it seems to be from a website. This is not a reliable source. The passage is written neutrally but not well. The writer did include the citation within the text which is good but the citation is not a reliable source.

Potential Source: Considerations on Desertification Oltenia a article from Forum geografic (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.926.1155&rep=rep1&type=pdf)

Climate Issues on aridity trends of southern Oltenia in the last 5 decades by Geographia Technica (http://technicalgeography.org/pdf/1_2013/08_1_2013.pdf)

Pleistocene Park
This article is also written quite well. It provides you with all the information you need about this park, its on going research, its goals and everything you need to know from the start to finish. I like how the author included a year by year step and what happened each year in regarding this park. Therefore, the article is quite detailed and informative. The article is written quite neutrally and no biases are shown. The author did cite the article quite well and there is citations after every information. The author used journals, websites relating science and scientific magazines. You can tell that the author did a lot of research before they wrote this article. Although I cannot improve this, I am very much interesting in this article.

Bioshelter
According to Wikipedia this article is missing reliable sources which is causing a bias within the article and need help in creating the article more independent. The author only used 2 sources which is not enough for a Wikipedia article and both are from a book. The author should have found journals to cite from. The overall passage is lacking so much information such as the proper definition and case studies to help clarify the topic.

Potential Source: Bioshelters and their Implications for Lifestyle by ScienceDirect (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080219943500107)

Greenhouse CO2 dynamics and compositing in a solar heater bioshelter

Evaluating Content
Within this article, I found no distractions at all. Everything written in the article related to the disaster that occurred. I personally think that there is nothing missing from this article.

Evaluating Tone
The overall tone in the article is neutral. I think for a topic like a natural disaster occurring, its hard to create any biases. The tone sounds professional and informative. I like how they talked about each country that was affect and did not stick to one that was the most effected and ignored the other countries.

Evaluating Source
source #1: a fieldwork- cover story

source #2: National Science Foundation

source #3: The Epoch Times

None of the sources have any biases in them. The sources contain facts which is hard to show any biases in a fact/information.

Talk Page
One of the topic discussions that is going on with is article is that it was nominated for a feature article but do to incorrect grammar and some source not being correct such as someone suggested to change $2.9 billion US dollars to 15 billion US dollars. The article did not win the feature article nomination. Someone commented that they found this article less encyclopedic and thought it was more of a data report style which I disagree with because the article presents the facts of what occurred.

The article was appeared on Wiki's main page as today's featured article on June 12th 2006 and was placed as level 4 vital article in History.

This article is kind of like what we talk about in other classes, where we discuss facts and learn about how it happened.