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Sarah Boneske's Review of the article : "Effects of climate change on plant biodiversity"

For the most part, each fact is reference. The paragraph “Modern Context” does not have any citations. “Effects of CO2” have a citation for each sentence. “Effects of temperature” has no citations. “Effects of water” and “General effects” could each have at least one more citation. “Changes in distributions” is heavily cited except for the final paragraph. “Indirect impacts of climate changes” is heavily cited for the first few paragraphs, but the final paragraphs don’t have citations. “Challenges of modelling future impacts” could have more citations.

Everything in the article was relevant to the article topic, and nothing was a distraction.

I didn’t notice anything that seemed particularly biased. The paragraph “Challenges of modelling future impacts” does seem to be more opinion based than factual based. I would like to see the source the author is drawing from to make their conclusions.

Almost all of the sources are from scientific papers that have been published and peer reviewed in scientific journals. A possibly biased source could be source 12 from IUCN, because their whole goal is nature conservation, so their data might be skewed to give them more evidence to increase protection of nature.

“Higher level changes” is a very short paragraph and could be further expanded on. “Effects of temperature” is also very short, and should definitely be expanded on because I know there is a lot of data out there about temperature effects on plant biodiversity.

The links for the citations work.

A lot of the information is from almost 10 years ago, and I’m sure there is new data out there that could be added to this article to further support this entry.

This article is listed as a C-class, which means it has gaps, and need to be expanded on with more substantial sources. There is not a lot of talk going on; the first comment is from the creator of the page in 2008, and they said that many of the sections need more work. Coral reefs were also discussed.