User:Emers158/sandbox

Assignment 1:

On the climate change, ecology and effects of climate change on plant biodiversity wiki pages, each fact is referenced appropriately, its organized effectively into subsections and the information is relevant. To me it seemed neutral and from what I could tell the sources referenced were neutral (a lot of scientific/academic journals). I thought topics were adequately expanded upon, links I checked worked, time period of cited works were relevant but may become obscure in the future (early 2000's were already 15 years ago). The article is semi-protected and I think that is good because many people will probably try to come in, edit and use personal opinions instead of facts. The talk page is discussing how to improve the articles generally and as well as feedback on additions that have already been made. On articles such as ecology, climate change is mentioned but not gone into full detail on - that way you can link it to another page and stay more on topic.

Assignment 2:

Looked at New England Wild Flower Society Page and looked at ways to improve language. Didn't change sentence structure a whole lot, mostly punctuation. It was shorter (per suggestion of the assignment) so there wasn't a whole lot to change.

Assignment 3:

Added a citation to the Mesic Habitat page - I flipped from the page for assignment 2 because I felt I could better expand on the topic at hand here.

https://www.sagegrouseinitiative.com/water-is-life/ - new source - Sage Grouse Initiative which operates under the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Further examples include streamsides, wet meadows, springs, seeps, irrigated fields,and high-elevation habitats. Effectively they provide drought insurance as higher elevated lands warm due to seasonal or other change. Birds and livestock often flock or graze here in hotter summer months.

Healthy habitats in this realm are effectively sponges in that they are a store for water and allow it to be deposited slowly as needed. This is especially common in the western United States. It is especially important when in close proximity to deserts.

This habitat provides forb and insects for organisms belonging to higher trophic levels such as grouse. This type of habitat is also under stress from various human activities.

Conservation efforts are in place - as of 2010, over 1,474 ranchers have agreed to help conserve more than 5.6 million acres of this habitat type.