Dear Jeffrey and Co-Workers,

let me first apologize for the delay. I was a little occupied in the past days due to external visits.

Both reviewers are enthusiastic about your manuscript and suggest only minor revisions. I read through your answers and it looks to me as if you will easily be able to implement the suggestions. I therefore invite you to submit your revised manuscript. It will then only go through an internal review (by myself).

Please do me a favor and highlight major changes applied to the manuscript so I can quickly track them down and cross check them with the reviewer's suggestions.

With kind regards
Tina Treude

Dear Jeffrey and Co-Workers,

thank you for submitting your revised manuscript. It is accepted subject to just some few technical corrections. See my instructions below.

Best
Tina

Technical corrections (please refer to line numbers in the track changes manuscript):

L215: "Since the time of initial disturbance fish density in the DEA changed a great deal." does not sounds like proper scientific English. Please revise.

L333: change ", so" to "; hence"

L382: Delete the second "that"