Issue on 10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113615


Concerns are raised regarding to the article [1]:

(1) The title of this article [1], "Three decades of wetland transformation in the middle and lower Yangtze River Basin: classification, inundation dynamics, and ecological impacts", suggest that the article focuses on the middle and lower Yangtze River basin. However, on the text of this article [1], upper Mekong River basin is frequently mentioned instead of the Yangtze River Basin. "Mekong" is mentioned 42 times, while "Yangtze" is mentioned only 3 times. Additionally, some data presented on the article seems to be from Mekong River, while other seems to be from Yangtze River. It appears that this article [s] was made up with two separate studies.

(2) Lego-like bar charts are observed in the Figure 6 of this article [1]. The bars seem to be manually placed instead of software-generated.



Reference

[1] 10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113615






Author: WU Guangheng

Founder and Chair of the 5GH Foundation

E-Mail: wu@5gh.org.cn

Document ID: 5GH-2025-000011.R17

Publication Date: 2025.09.15

This article is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License

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