Can Aquaculture Ponds Be Managed as Foraging Habitats for Overwintering Water Birds? An Experimental Approach
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Please find my comments from the text margins.
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P1, L16： Numbers < 10 are normally expressed by words. |
It is revised as “..in four winters…”. |
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P2, L46: Not sure that all readers are aware what is "operational seasonality". You should introduce that term with a few words before starting using it. |
It is revised as “…the alternate timing of fish cultivation and non-cultivation periods of…”. |
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P2 L68: ...because of few studies focusing on the ecology of .. |
It is revised as “…because of few studies focusing on the ecology of…”. |
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P2 L73: I do not think the mechanism is "produces" rather forces prey species to inhabit reduced refugees. |
“Produces” is changed to “forces”. |
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P2 L73: Everglades swamp (US)? |
It is revised as “…the Everglades swamp (USA)…”. |
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P2 L86: Since you but forward multiple tasks to test, I would suggest enumeration of each hypothesis, as 1, 2, 3. |
Five hypotheses were enumerated with numbers. We tested the following hypotheses: (1)…(2)……(5)… Please see L87-92. |
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P6 L248: If different superscripts denote statistical differences, you need to indicate that in table heading. |
a and b indicate groupings grouping results of post-hoc comparisons. |
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P7 Table 2: Add as superscript. |
It is revised as “ab”. |
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P8 section 3.3: I suggest to present correlations coefficient in one Table, showing r2 and significant level with asterisk: <0.05 *, <0.01**, <0.001 *** |
We added table 5 to show correlations among food abundance and bird variables. |
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P10 Figure 2: Something is wrong here. You need to explain under figures what 1, 2, 3 and 4. Then state how mean/median level is presented, what error bars show? |
Figure 2. Densities of (A) Black-faced spoonbills, (B) Great egrets, (C) Little egrets, (D) Black-winged stilts, (E) Dunlins, and (F) Kentish plovers at in different water depth categories in four years of the experiment. Bars represent mean, and upper and lower lines indicate 1 SE. Depth category 1 is <=5 cm, category 2 is >5 to <=20 cm, category 3 is >20 to <=40 cm, and category 4 is > 40 cm. |
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
My comments are as follows.
- I suggest to use Scientific names for those birds’ name in Table 1. Uniform those names.
- Some format errors are in the Appendix A1 and Appendix A2.
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1. I suggest to use Scientific names for those birds’ name in Table 1. Uniform those names. |
We have reformatted Table 1 to make it more readable. |
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2. Some format errors are in the Appendix A1 and Appendix A2. |
Line height problems in appendixes have been fixed. |
