User talk:RileyLNugent/New sandbox

External Review
Hi RileyLNugent - My name is Jolie, and I'm the Project Coordinator for the WikiProject Limnology & Oceanography team. Your external review for your article on planktivores is posted below. If you have any questions about your review, or would like to clarify anything, please feel free to let me know by posting a message on my talk page and I'll pass it along to your external reviewer. Thanks, and all the best as you wrap up your Wikipedia editing assignment!

EXTERNAL REVIEW - Hi RileyLNugent, I'm a limnologist and biogeochemist who works in rivers and floodplain lakes. I'm particularly interested in how nutrients move through aquatic ecosystems, how nutrients are transformed while they're temporarily stored in small floodplain lakes, and how nutrient supply can affect aquatic food webs through the microbial loop.

You've done a good job identifying parts of the planktivore page that needed more information, and adding appropriate information and examples! Your additions to the "Planktivore Ecology" section help to further explain the role of planktivores in aquatic food webs, and the new section on "Well-known planktivores" lists a number of species that readers may be interested in and want to learn more about. You've also done a good job identifying an appropriate open-access reference to back up your writing. Using open-access sources to support Wikipedia writing is very important in order to make the information more publicly-accessible, because the broader public doesn't have access to many academic journals that are behind paywalls.

Here are some specific comments and suggestions for you to consider: Good job improving the planktivore article, and I look forward to reading the final version!
 * "Planktivores themselves occupy trophic levels just above zooplankton and may be in higher levels depending on their overall diet." I think this statement is not completely accurate as written, because many species of zooplankton feed on phytoplankton (so are planktivores themselves). Also, a species can be both a planktivore and a food source to another planktivore (e.g. zooplankton that eat phytoplankton, and are in turn eaten by fish). It would therefore be more accurate to say something like, "Planktivores occupy trophic levels just above their planktonic food species, and planktivores may also be consumed by other species of planktivores." You could then give an example of this type of food chain.
 * The Daphnia example you give at the end of the "Planktivore ecology" section is a really good one! Do you have a reference that you could include here as an in-line citation?
 * It would be better to title the section "Well-known planktivores" as "Examples of planktivore species".
 * Add links to other Wikipedia pages wherever possible - for example, you could include links to the pages on Daphnia, kairomones, manta ray, devil fish, and the rest of the species that you name. This cross-linking to other pages is a really valuable addition to a Wikipedia page, because it allows the reader to quickly and easily access more information.
 * The link to your reference doesn't appear to be working - but I found this version of the paper online, also freely and openly accessible, so you can just update the link that's currently in your page.

JoGDelta (talk) 03:29, 4 May 2021 (UTC)