Reproductive Traits Demonstrate How Well the Mediterranean Stripe-Necked Turtle Mauremys leprosa Can Flourish under Highly Degraded–Polluted Conditions
, Ghoulem Tiar 2,3, Manel Tiar-Saadi 2, Zihad Bouslama 4 and Pavel Široký 5,6,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Interesting paper on rather surprising topic. I have attached a few comments on a copy of the manuscript. Most of the wording suggestions I have made just sounded better to me. I do think the phenomenon of the degraded habitat may be attributed to the unusually high organic matter in the water and thus very low oxygen levels which would not impact this "generalist" forager as described. I suggest limiting the "toxic" connotations since no work on traditional toxins (DDT, flourocarbons, hydrocarbons, heavy metals etc) was undertaker.
The statistics and morphometrics are all well done and interesting.
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Author Response
We thank reviewer for possitive evaluation of our work, we have followed the suggestions from uploaded pdf revision. All changes from Both reviewers are highlited by yellow background.
Reviewer 2 Report
See my comments on the uploaded pdf file regarding log-log correlation and regression analyses.
Also, the Discussion section has passages that need to be written and explained more clearly, as noted in my inserted comments.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Thank you for your possitive and constructive comments. We made changes following your pdf fille. All changed parts according to reservations of both reviewers you can see highlighted by yellow background.
