Talk:Acer rubrum

Acer rubrum has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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October 11, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed

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GA

Hi - I feel this article is well-written and passes all GA criteria. congrats.

It is a nice platform for FAC at some stage but would require some more information (if known/researched/available) on:

ecology -any birds or insects make use of it?

Uses - expand information on use in lumber and maple syrup in terms of quantity/tunrover etc.

A Taxonomy section, who named it when and how?

The prose is good but there are a some sentences which could be rewritten (eg "species of tree" instead of "tree species" in first sentence and make 2nd sentence sound less repetitive)

Hopefully there'd be some more diverse references to assist in embellishing these.

Good luck. cheers, Cas Liber | talk | contribs 04:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I forgot to add the cultivar section would need a review before FAC - which are common, which are new, which are popular and why, and maybe a complete list on another page if this one sails over 35kb with a non-listy summary here. I am sure many plant articles will have this problem - I've been developing Banksia spinulosa :) cheers, Cas Liber | talk | contribs 20:57, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is lacking is a discussion of the fire ecology of red maple. I added that it was fire intolerant and took out the apparent irony of the absence of the tree from the prairie peninsula. While the "widespread" nature of the tree is covered well, the invasive aspect (into ecosystems where it was not in presettlement times to to fire suppression) isn't mentioned at all. A good article on this is at http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/27/science/eastern-forests-change-color-as-red-maples-proliferate.html but I don't yet know how to add references to my edits MApandr (talk) 16:25, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added material to the lead section regarding the red maple as being possibly considered to be invasive, using the USDA as well as the article you gave. I was concerned that someone reading just the basics would get an overly favorable impression, without any of the controversy. It may also be useful to add something about its shallow roots. This can be found at http://parks.cityofboise.org/community-forestry/street-trees/species-prohibited-on-public-rights-of-way/ though a better source should be found. Lena Key (talk) 15:04, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA Sweeps (Pass)

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Corvus coronoides _talk 23:20, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Adding something

Hi I think that this article is very well written and informative. I definitely appreciate the organization of the topics and the time spent creating this piece. However, I would like to add something to the distribution section. There is some evidence that phosphorous availability can affect the spread of Acer rubrum, and I would like to comment on that further. Also, I am interested in the ability of mycorrhizal fungi to increase the growth and spread of A. rubrum and would like to add some information about that as well. EllenCat (talk) 15:35, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links

The external link for the 4th link (US Forestry report) contains a link to a blog post about the report. I don't know how to modify links. The original link for the official report should be updated to: https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/catalog/CAT80450955 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brockpag (talk • contribs) 17:40, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possible image replacement

@Djlayton4: (pinging as primary contributor) - what do you think of File:Acer rubrum (red maple) female (32047765441).jpg as a replacement for the photo of female flowers in the article? Seems like the close-up would be better for that purpose, but since it's a GA I don't want to make an assumption. There's also File:Acer rubrum (red maple) Male (32047765001).jpg as a potential replacement for the male flowers (again a close-up on clean background). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 20:44, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]