Content of review 1, reviewed on July 18, 2022
The manuscript is interesting and addresses a central topic in ecology: impact of biological invasions on native communities. Besides that, the study brought a long-term observational data and studies with such a long period are important to understand the ecological processes behind biological invasions. The authors showed that garlic mustard abundance is a key predictor of patterns of plant diversity across invasion intensity and environmental heterogeneity in a way that is consistent with mutualism disruption. Their work suggests that the mutualism disruption hypothesis can provide generalizable predictions of the impacts of allelopathic invasive plants that are evident at a broad spatial scale. However, although the study presents the results of original research, improvements are necessary. I strongly recommend that the authors have someone check the language.
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Content of review 2, reviewed on October 31, 2022
Although the authors made the requested changes, the text still need a language review. In general, the authors need to standardize the verb tenses to make the text clear.
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References
D., R. M., S., P. I., R., S. H., N., K. S., Greg, S., N., Z. D., Susan, K. 2023. Invasion-mediated mutualism disruption is evident across heterogeneous environmental conditions and varying invasion intensities. Ecography.