Advances in Ecology Research on Integrated Rice Field Aquaculture in China
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The MS provide insight on an important topic and gives example of farming systems that could contribute to sustainable intensification of food production systems. Integrated rice-fish farming is decreasing in some countries, despite they often are more efficient that rice-monocropping and it is good to see that integrated rice-aquaculture system are increasing in China. This is probably not only thanks to ecological research on this systems but also link to social and policy issues etc. and it would be interesting to learn more about these. The first section on rice-fish farming provide a fairly well written review on some earlier results that have been quite well covered in earlier publications, while the two following sections need som substantial improvements considering both content and language. Some suggested changes and improvements can be found in the enclosed file.
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Reviewer 2 Report
General comments to authors:
In the manuscript "Advances in Ecology Research of Integrated Rice-field Aquaculture in China" the authors systematically review the advances in ecology research of three major integrated rice-field aquaculture systems in China, namely rice-fish, rice-crab, and rice-crayfish coculture systems, and finally, they highlight the contribution of research in ecology and present future perspectives.
This research presents interesting approaches and results, and well structured.
I just believe that the methods used to select the literature are unclear.
Overall, I have the following questions:
1- At the end of the abstract, present a brief abstract of the main findings of the review.
2- Have you searched for articles in databases (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science)? Make it clear where you consulted the literature.
3- Did you use any terms/keywords to search the literature? Did you use any operators/symbols to connect the terms (e.g., boolean operators, truncation symbols)?
4- Did you have any literature selection criteria used? For example, only peer-reviewed articles? Or was every kind of document included in the review (including gray literature)?
5- Did you make any temporal cut (years) of the literature used for the review?
6- When was the literature search performed? This is important, especially for future work with a similar approach.
7- Make it clear what information you were interested in extracting from the literature.
Author Response
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The revised version looks fine, although the there is always improvement that can be made on the English.
