Climate Change May Pose Additional Threats to the Endangered Endemic Species Encalypta buxbaumioidea in China

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper provides some interesting information suitable for publication in Diversity.

Minor comments.

Abstract

P1, L 26: consider changing "isothernality" to "isothermality- see https://www.worldclim.org/data/bioclim.html" this also needs to be corrected in the text.

P1, line 26. Consider changing "largely affected" to "affected mainly"

Page 1 (all document). Review the use of apostrophes or quotation marks, hyphens, dash, and spacing between sentences in the document.

Introduction

1) Add some biological or ecological information about the plant; the background could be better in the introduction.

P1, line 44: Change ", The" to ". The".

P2, L53-57: The structure does not flow to well.

P2, L71: consider adding the article "an" endangered

P2, L79. Consider adding a comma in China"," and (3) 

Method

P2, L89: Consider removing "a total of "may be unnecessary in this sentence.

P2, L95: Change "1" to "one".

P4, L101: (all document). Review the correct writing of the figures.

P4, line 121. Change ", The" to ". The".

P4, L120-121: I suggest rephrasing as follows: All the climate layers were downloaded at a 1 km2 resolution and extracted…

P4, L125: consider adding the article from "the" Resource…

P4, L113-129: please specify the method used to correct topographic data (altitude, slope, and aspect). This step and the correction for human factors are recommended in modeling species at risk.

Results

P2, L89: Consider removing…as stable "distribution. " this may be unnecessary in this sentence.

P7, L209: consider using italics 

P9, L246-247: I suggest rephrasing as follows:  in which most of the distribution fell outside the nature.

Discussion

P11, L285: Consider changing "of" habitat of E. buxbaumioidea to "for".

P11, L297:  I suggest rephrasing as follows: “…and altitudes than current distributions”

P11, L311-330: The structure does not flow to well.

1) This could be better:  What is the advantage/disadvantage of using R vs. ArcGIS for modeling endangered species? Or what conservation guidelines can be formulated in a landscape environment?. 

Conclusions

 The paper has no conclusions

References

1)     References do not have doi.

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