Articles | Volume 22, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-5651-2025
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Impact of wheat cultivar development on biomass and subsoil carbon input: a case study along an erosion-deposition gradient
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L165ff: This section describes supervised and unsupervised ML methods. Various soil parameters are used for PCA, such as BD, C, N, P, pH, COCO3 and others. The methods section does not describe the analysis of these parameters, nor does it provide references to other publications where these parameters have been analysed. These data are also presented in the Supplementary Table S1 for the different soil types and also for the horizons. However, it remains unclear where the data comes from or how they were measured.
When comparing the values for the different horizons, it is very remarkable that they are similar, sometimes down to the decimal place. From my experience with soil analysis I am not familiar with such results. These parameters are not only used for the ML, but also used for the discussion, as they have a significant influence on the work presented. Since a significant part of the work presented is based on these values, the analysis of it should be presented in a comprehensible way.
Figure 2: pleae adapt the figure, as it is hard to read the content (too small). Please indicate what the black dots represent (outlier or means? as the bars are quite small, it is also hard to distinguish between dots or letters)