Dear Dr. Sollai

Thank you again for submitting the above manuscript to Biogeosciences. It has been expertly refereed by two anonymous referees who both found merit in your study. Their recommendations were published in the Interactive Discussion forum. In addition, Valerie Schwab gave some comments to your manuscript.
For final publication in Biogeosciences, all referees suggested that your manuscript should be accepted subject to some revisions.

You addressed most of their concerns in the interactive discussion forum in your very detailed response letters. I would just like to ask you if you can address a little bit more the suggestion of Referee 1 (Q2) regarding the slight overlap in the occurrence of AOA and anammox communities. Maybe you can another sentence or rephrase your sentences to avoid confusion also by other readers.

So please go ahead and submit the revised version of your manuscript.

Your interest in publishing in Biogeosciences is very much appreciated.

Sincerely,

Kirsten Küsel

Dear Dr. Sollai

Thank you again for submitting the above manuscript to Biogeosciences. In your very detailed response letter and in the new version of the manuscript you followed the suggestions of the reviewers and did the changes I asked you to do.

Thus, the revised version of your manuscript can be published in Biogeosciences without further delay.

Your interest in publishing in Biogeosciences is very much appreciated.

Sincerely,

Kirsten Küsel

(Associate Editor)