Alterations in Population Distribution of Liriodendron chinense (Hemsl.) Sarg. and Liriodendron tulipifera Linn. Caused by Climate Change
, Delight Hwarari 1, Baseer Ahmad 2, Haozhengji Wu 1, Jinhui Chen 3,* and Liming Yang 1,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I believe that your study is of current interest and that it was well developed.
My main observations concern the following:
I believe that, in order for the reader to understand your work better and more easily, it is important that you improve the writing and use of English in your whole work. I also suggest that you add more figures in the results section (or in supplementary material).
In the discussion section, I suggest that you enrich it with more citations of works by other authors and that you refer to tables and figures of your own results, where appropriate.
In the manuscript (atached) I made some additional specific annotations that I think can help you improve the clarity of your interesting report.
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Author Response
Response to Reviewer 1 Comments
Dear Reviewer and Editor,
Thank you very much for your time and efforts in handling and reviewing our manuscript. Your valuable comments and suggestions helped us greatly to improve the quality of manuscript. We revised the manuscript according to your nice comments and suggestions, and tried to improve the quality of manuscript. And point-to-point response was listed in the following.
Point 1:
I believe that your study is of current interest and that it was well developed. My main observations concern the following: I believe that, in order for the reader to understand your work better and more easily, it is important that you improve the writing and use of English in your whole work. I also suggest that you add more figures in the results section (or in supplementary material). In the discussion section, I suggest that you enrich it with more citations of works by other authors and that you refer to tables and figures of your own results, where appropriate. In the manuscript (attached) I made some additional specific annotations that I think can help you improve the clarity of your interesting report.
Response 1: Thank you very much for your valuable comment and additional specific annotations, which greatly improve the quality of the manuscript.
(1) The Manuscript scope writing and use of English were revised and improved for better understanding.
(2) According to your nice comments and suggestions, six figures were added in the maunuscript, please see Figures S2 - S7.
(3) The discussion section was enriched and improved, and other citations were added in the Discussion section.
Reviewer 2 Report
The presented manuscript addresses the scenario of distribution of two Liriodendron species under climatic changes and elucidates the influence of climatic variables on shaping the geographical range of the species. In my opinion, the study could be interesting in the discussion of climatic change and its impact on shifting species ranges. The manuscript is well structured and appropriate methods were used. However, in some places is too wordy and hard to follow. I will recommend using more generalized geographical regions, especially in places where the species nowadays is not naturally dispersed (like in Europe or South America). I will also recommend to make the changes according to organizing and merging table 1 and tableS1. Table 1 in the current form is unreadable. I would like to propose the order of columns: Variable ; climate features ; L. chinensis ; L. tulipifera. Other changes in the tables: round to thousandths of a decimal place. Please, use better quality of the figures 2 & 3.
Other minor changes:
l.39. The geographical
l.66 – Liriodendron chinense (Hemsl.) Sarg., L. tulipifera L.
l.78 ……then decline with the growth of the year - not clear
l.156 - of ..climatic factors was performed (was taken)
- 169 – generation? Not clear; reproduction?
Tab. 1. - …..MaxEnt
l.203 – not clear
l.237-240 – shorten
l.495 – insect-pollinated (also in other places)
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 2 Comments
Dear Reviewer and Editor,
Thank you very much for your time and efforts in handling and reviewing our manuscript. Your valuable comments and suggestions helped us greatly to improve the quality of manuscript. We revised the manuscript according to your nice comments and suggestions, and tried to improve the quality of manuscript. And point-to-point response was listed in the following.
Point 1:
The presented manuscript addresses the scenario of distribution of two Liriodendron species under climatic changes and elucidates the influence of climatic variables on shaping the geographical range of the species. In my opinion, the study could be interesting in the discussion of climatic change and its impact on shifting species ranges. The manuscript is well structured and appropriate methods were used. However, in some places is too wordy and hard to follow. I will recommend using more generalized geographical regions, especially in places where the species nowadays is not naturally dispersed (like in Europe or South America). I will also recommend to make the changes according to organizing and merging table 1 and tableS1. Table 1 in the current form is unreadable. I would like to propose the order of columns: Variable ; climate features ; L. chinensis ; L. tulipifera. Other changes in the tables: round to thousandths of a decimal place. Please, use better quality of the figures 2 & 3.
Response 1: Thank you very much for the valuable comment and suggestions, they really improved the quality of the manuscript. The Manuscript scope writing and use of English was improved for better understanding. Places in the manuscript that were too wordy were summarized and better expressions were used as per your suggestions. Additional figures (Fig. S2-S7) were included in the maunuscript, and Table S1 and Table 1 were merged like adviced. The discussion section was enriched, and other citations were added. Also, figures 2 and 3 were revised and better quailty pictures were provided in the manuscript.
Point 2:
l.39. The geographical
Response 2: Thank you for the suggestion, the word was corrected and proper capitalized.
Point 3:
l.66 – Liriodendron chinense (Hemsl.) Sarg., L. tulipifera L.
Response 3: Thank you for the correction species’ names were corrected as suggested.
Point 4:
l.78 ……then decline with the growth of the year - not clear
Response 4: Line 78 was corrected to make the reader understand the intended idea. We appreciate your observation.
Point 5:
l.156 - of ..climatic factors was performed (was taken).
Response 5: We appreciate your comment, line 156 was revised and corrected in proper grammar.
Point 6:
169 – generation? Not clear; reproduction?
Response 6: Thank you for the correction, line 169 was revised and made clear, clarifying the intended idea.
Point 7:
Tab. 1. - …..MaxEnt
Response 7: Thank you for the suggestion, table caption was corrected as adviced.
Point 8:
l.203 – not clear
Response 8: We appreciate the observation. Line 203 was further revised and idea pointed out.
Point 9:
l.237-240 – shorten
Response 9: Line 237-240 was shorten and simplified, we thank you for the comment
Point 10:
l.495 – insect-pollinated (also in other places).
Response 10: Thank you for the observation. Line 495 was revised and wording was corrected as adviced.
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