Characterization of Sonic Events Present in Natural-Urban Hybrid Habitats Using UMAP and SEDnet: The Case of the Urban Wetlands

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This manuscript examine the soundscapes of natural and urban wetlands and also attempt to detect diagnostic soundscape signature of specific animals. The approach is straightforward and results should be published after revision as below:

1) Abstract - the abstract does not contain what is the key result from your study. What is the implications of your findings? This needed to be addressed in abtract.

2) In lines 102-104, the author provide background of some technical measurement of different animals. One point I want to address is some animals, e.g. Bats will change its voice signature with ages. So, age of animals should also be taken into consideration. I think the author should add this point after 102-104, and cite the reference below:

Mehdizadeh R, Eghbali H, Sharifi M. 2021. Vocalization development in Geoffroy’s bat, Myotis emarginatus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae).
Zool Stud 60:20. doi:10.6620/ZS.2021.60-20

2) In urbanised wetlands, there are different species composition and some of the species will predate on the native ones and result in different species assemblages and thus different soundscapes of animals. One of example is barn swallow can be predated by the urban invader and resulting in different assemblages of urban assemblages and soundscapes. This ideas should be elaborated in the discussion, or lines 39-42 in introduction, and I would suggest to cite the references below:

Wang JS, CM Hung. 2019. Barn swallow nest predation by a recent urban invader, the Taiwan whistling thrush – implications for the evolution of urban avian communities. Zool Stud 58:1. doi:10.6620/ZS.2019.58-01

3) How is the soundscape variation among holiday and non-holiday period? Any comments can be made in the discussion?

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is of great interest, I recommend a little more information about the ecoacoustics practices to add in the introduction or at point 2.

Also, the concept of hybrid habitats could be developed in the introduction.

The sentence at line 594 should better be structured because the methodology adopted and the importance of sounds for people require more space to be related.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The comments were addressed and the MS can be published.