Dear authors,
many thanks for your responses to the reviewer comments. Please submit a suitably revised manuscript together with a point-by-point response of how you have changed the manuscript to reflect the reviewer comments. When adding new literature following the reviewer comments, please carefully reflect whether this reference is appropriate and necessary to support the statement made.
Best wishes,
Sönke

Dear authors,

many thanks for your revised manuscript. After review of one of the original reviewers and my own assessment, I am satisfied with the way you have responded to the criticims raised. Both reviewer #1 and I have some minor technical issues that you should resolve before this manuscript can be published in Biogeosciences. I also found a smaller number of misplaced commas or points. Therefore, I would like to ask you to carefully check spelling and punctuation again, including a consideration of splitting longer sentences for better readibility.

Best wishes,
Sönke Zaehle


Editorial comments:
L29: clarify what “regarding P” means.
L134: no new paragraph
L295: Give section number
L323: remove quotation marks, or explain.