Reply to critical article about paper named "comprehensive monitoring of the high mortality rate of wild waterbirds of Miankaleh Wetland in 2020"

Document Type : Short Communication

Authors

1 Iran Veterinary Organization ,Ministry of Jihad Agriculture

2 Agricultural institute of education and extension, Agricultural Research Education And Extension Organization

3 Iran Veterinary Organization، Ministry of Jihad Agriculture

4 Iran Veterinary Organization, Ministry of Jihad Agriculture

5 General Department of Environmental Protection of Mazandaran Province

6 Azad University of Iran, Science and Research Branch of Tehran, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Department of Biology

7 Iran Veterinary Organization, Ministry Of Jihad Agriculture

Abstract

One of the most important environmental problems of Miankaleh Wetland in recent years was the  high death rate of migratory wild birds in 2020. Accordingly, a comprehensive monitoring  program was designed  and carried out to investigate the causes of this mortality by the authors of this manuscript , in coordination with responsible organizations and the results were published by the Journal of Veterinary Research And Biological Products in  article, entitled "comprehensive monitoring of the high mortality rate of wild waterbirds of Miankaleh Wetland in 2020"  (called the Monitoring article for short), and in issue 140 of this journal, a critical article was published in the critique of the original article (called the critical article for short), which casts some doubt on the authors.  In this article were monitored  the methodology and results of the Monitoring article. The authors of Monitoring article, while thanking the authors of the Critical article for their attention, prepare present article in response to the Critical article authers.

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Veterinary Research & Biological Products
Volume 35, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
September 2022
Pages 92-95

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  • Receive Date: 19 July 2021
  • Revise Date: 29 November 2021
  • Accept Date: 06 December 2021

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