Dear Paul Heyer,

after reading the two evaluations of bg-2017-462 and your author’s responses considering how you will address the concerns, suggestions and indicated critics by both reviewers, I decided to except the manuscript for publication in Biogeosciences after a minor revision.

Please consider in this revision all your indicated changes of the manuscript. I missed in your author’s response to reviewer 3 a statement how you will address in the discussion the vulnerability of different intact forest ecosystems in the Amazon (floodplains and non-flooded forests) to wildfires (i.e., Flores et al. 2017 and studies cited in this paper).

I am looking forward to receive a revised version of bg-2017-462.

Best regards,
Jochen Schongart

Associated Editor of Biogeosciences

Dear Joshua Heyer,

I have read the author responses and crosschecked it with the changes you made in the revised version of bg-2017-462 which now sufficiently addresses the concerns, suggestions and critics indicated by both reviewers. However, before the manuscript can be published in Biogeosciences it is necessary to perform technical corrections of bg-2017-462, which you find in the attachment.

Thank you for choosing Biogeosciences to publish your studies and again my apologizes for the exceptional long process for review.

Best regards,
Jochen Schöngart
(Associated Editor of Biogeosciences)