User talk:ChaseTerry548440/Rapids

I have completed peer reviewing your draft! Marythemuffinlady (talk) 23:58, 26 March 2021 (UTC)Marythemuffinlady

Review of your new section
Thank you for taking the time to improve this Wikipedia article! While provide some interesting facts in this new section, I don't find the content particularly useful because it is more like a random list of organisms associated with random rapids in random rivers around the globe. I make some suggestions for improving the article below.

Re: "Rapids Biodiversity is an important concept because many species inhabit rapids." I think being important is implied because you are including this new section in the Wikipedia article. Maybe start out with a more general statement, such as: "Increased water velocities and turbulence in rapids provides a unique habitat for many river organisms." This article provides some leads on more appropriate citations you could use.

Re: "Fish in particular are important as they face many issues such as damming and pollution." You need a sentence that transitions from the topic sentence to what you want to talk about (here it's fish), but I'm not sure exactly what you want to discuss here in terms of fish. In the rest of the paragraph you just list example of fish species that are associated with rapids habitat in random and unrelated rivers around the world. Unfortunately, this is largely uninteresting because I'm not really learning something broad here. I might start out with discussing aquatic macroinvertebrates that are adapted to live in rapids first. You could get a textbook from your library about aquatic macroinvertebrates and summarize what you learn in there about the adaptations required to live in this fast flowing environment (e.g., flat bodies, unique feeding behaviors, abilities to hold on to rocks) and then give examples of the types of macroinvertebrates that have these adaptations and are commonly found in rapids (e.g., the naiads and larvae of stoneflies, mayflies, and black flies).

The next paragraph you could talk about the fish that are commonly associated with rapids and their adaptations to this river habitat. Or you could talk about how river flows are being altered by things like damming and water withdrawals for agriculture and the impact of reduced flow on organisms that live in fast water.

Dr.dwk (talk) 20:54, 12 April 2021 (UTC)