Dear Stefan,
thank you for your detailed responses to the reviews. Please insert all your suggested responses in the revised manuscript. In addition to those, please consider also the following:
1. in response to the reviewer comment (AC1): "Page 9, lines 195 f: Is there an explanation how ramet pairs can occur 30 m apart in Larix? How about the chance for full sibs to have identical genotypes?" you gave a detailed response, incl. additionally plotted data (Fig. R1). Please consider if your response can be partly included in the main text with the figure eventually included in the supplement.
2. Referring to the model description, AC3 asked for an explanation of what makes the model spatially explicit. In your response you explain the difference to dynamic vegetation models by explaining that you simulate plant growth from seed to sapling. But the explanation should also contain a sentence of what makes the model spatially explicit, i.e. a simulation grid of a certain cell size and how the adjacent grid cells are connected. Please double-check your model description in the methods section.
3. Please include the response to the reviewer comment (AC4) in 1 or 2 sentences in the methods section where you shortly describe the model: "Line 127: What is the ecological basis for changing the density competition to improve the on-site recruitment ratio? "

Many thanks and best wishes,
Kirsten.