Dear Ajinkya and co-authors,

Thank you for replying to the three reviews of your manuscript. I invite you to upload a suitably revised version of your manuscript that I will send out for a second round of reviews.

Thanks,
Chris Still

Dear Ajinkya and co-authors

I have now received reports from two reviewers on your revised manuscript. Both agree it is now suitable for publication in the journal Biogeosciences. One reviewer noted a few grammatical errors (copied below). Please correct these and upload a final version for publication.

Thank you, and best wishes,
Chris Still


"This paper is in great shape. I enjoyed reading it and found just a few tiny grammatical errors. The authors acknowledged my questions in the first review about VPD, the potential for depleted 13C sources from waterlogged soils to canopy CO2 and a more mechanistic perspective on tree ring d13C. I understand because of the study approach and limited met. data, some of these could not be addressed. Apologies to the authors for the slow turnaround on this review.

ln 369: Remove the word "tend"
ln 392: Remove "are known"
ln 412: Remove "highly" "