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Referee's Report Form

Global Change Biology

Referee's Report Form

Please complete the following form and submit it to the Editorial Office by clicking the "Submit" button. On receipt of the referee form by the Editor, a copy of the form will be returned to you.

Reviewer's Details

Manuscript Details

Please give special consideration to these points in reviewing this article.

  • Does the subject fall within the general scope of the journal? Have the authors made their case?
  • Is this a new and original contribution? (For review articles, is this an original synthesis?)
  • For regular articles, are the Methods sound and adequate to allow repetition of the study?
  • Are conclusions sound, justified by the data and consistent with the objectives?

Recommendation

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Accept for publication as is, or after minor editorial changes
Accept after minor revision not requiring further referee assessment
Reject in present form, but encourage submission of new manuscript
Reject without prospect of resubmission

Confidential Comments for the Editor

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Comments to Author(s)

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Quality of the Science

Experimentally and/or theoretically excellent reliable data, no flaws
Competent; no major flaws
Mostly competent, but suffering from serious flaws
Weak, major flaws or inconsistencies

Importance of the Science

Research of major significance on topic of central importance; highly novel
Important research on topic of broad significance; novel aspects
Useful research on topic that lacks originality; sound but routine
Research on topic of limited significance, or outside the scope of GCB

Please summarise your assessments by rating the quality and importance of the science:Insert a rating value from 1 (low) to 5 (high)

Quality of the Science

Importance of the Science

Does this manuscript require significant reduction in length?

General & Specific Comments to the Authors

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