Please revise the manuscript as you have indicated in your response to referee comments.

Dear Dr. Mengistu,

Plagiarism has been detected in your manuscript, which is a violation of the basic principles of scientific integrity. Details are provided in the text below from the Co-editors in chief of Biogeosciences.

Please respond to this issue in the public forum, and revise and resubmit the manuscript accordingly, after which a decision will be made regarding publication.

Sincerely,
Dave Bowling
Associate Editor
Biogeosciences

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Dear Dr. Mengistu, Dear Dr. Tsidu,

a plagiarism was detected in your manuscript concerning the following sentences:

One of the primary advantages of NIRv is that it can be calculated using existing satellite sensors, opening the possibility of producing satellite-derived photosynthesis estimates at the global scale going back decades. This opens the door to directly using satellite measurements of NIRv and SIF to drive ecosystem models and, ultimately, improve our understanding of the physiological and evolutionary processes that govern whole-plant resource use.

The above sentences can be found in almost identical format in the 2019 thesis "THE NEAR-INFRARED REFLECTANCE OF VEGETATION" by Grayson Badgley, in which it reads:

One of the primary advantages of NIRV is that it can be calculated using existing satellite sensors, opening the possibility of producing satellite-derived photosynthesis estimates at the global scale going back decades. [...] This presents the opportunity to use satellite measurements of NIRV to drive ecosystem models and, ultimately, improve our understanding of the physiological and evolutionary processes that govern whole-plant resource use.

Please find evidence included in this communication. Plagiarism is a serious misconduct in academia, which our journal does not tolerate. However, given the relatively small overlap between your study and the thesis we refrain from a rejection of your manuscript at this point. You are obligated to remove the sentences before the associate editor proceeds with the manuscript handling. We remain the right to reject this manuscript or any future manuscripts from your research group should we discover any kind of plagiarism again.

With kind regards

Tina Treude, Michael Bahn, Steven Bouillon, Katja Fennel, Anja Rammig
Co-Editors-in-Chief, Biogeosciences

Please revise as described in your response.