Dear Dr. Teh,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript "Seasonal variability in methane and nitrous oxide fluxes from tropical peatlands in the Western Amazon basin" to Biogeosciences. After reviewing the comments made by the referees and your response letters, I find that your manuscript requires major revisions to address the main concerns of the referees. Your overall responses to the referee comments appear very detailed and complete to me. Please incorporate your replies as much as possible into the revised version of the manuscript addressing especially the following topics:

- revision of the abstract
- discussion of environmental controls of CH4 and N2O fluxes
- provide more details on potential ebullition
- provide more details on chamber placement
- quality criteria for flux calculation

Technical corrections:
-line 12: "Trace gas fluxes were sampled" should be replaced by "Trace gas fluxes were determined"
-line 117: Section title should be "Materials and Methods"
-Improve the quality of the figures

Please note that your manuscript will be re-reviewed by at least one referee.

Best regards,

Ivonne Trebs

Dear authors,

please consider the technical corrections of both referees before final publication of your manuscript.

Best regards,

Ivonne Trebs