Dear Ricardo and colleagues

After reading the comments of two reviewers, and your responses to them, I invite you to submit a suitably revised version of your manuscript for consideration. The reviewer comments suggest major revisions are required before this manuscript can be considered for publication in Biogeosciences. Please pay particular attention to the concerns of both reviewers regarding your presentation of Methods (analyses employed) and Results. In particular, please focus on only the most important details in your analyses, and clarify which aspects of the MODIS fire detection algorithm might complicate your inferences. Additional discussion of uncertainties in the data and methods, as noted by the reviewers, need to be clearly stated.

Thank you,
Chris Still

The reviewer who examined your revised manuscript and I both feel that your manuscript will be a valuable contribution and will enhance our understanding of the lifecycle of bamboo and the challenges of remotely sensing this important vegetation type.

I will be pleased to see a revised version that addresses the few minor corrections suggested by the reviewer (please see the suggestions in the referee report). Please also note the comment of the reviewer concerning "minor copy editing things to fix." Fixing these now will speed the final publication of your paper in Biogeosciences.

Nice job on turning this around so quickly and addressing the minor reviewer comments.