Dear Authors,
Both referees and I regard this multiproxy reconstruction — integrating pollen, charcoal, and sedaDNA — as a valuable and novel contribution to understanding Pyrenean landscape dynamics, and their comments have been addressed constructively in your responses. Please prepare a revised manuscript addressing all the reviewers' points. Also consider the following points:
Abstract and terminology: Clarification of transhumance decline over the last century and retention of "transterminance" (defined as altitudinal-only pastoral mobility) are acceptable.
Modern vegetation context: Addition of Abies/Fagus distribution and timberline/treeline elevations is welcomed, though you supplied differing figures (2200–2300 m vs. 1700–1800 m) — please verify and reconcile these values before submission.

Additionally, also consider further editor’s comments when reviewing the manuscript:
Abstract phrasing: l.19 consider using “exclusively humans or climate”
Regional comparison: in Introduction or discussion - consider adding a comparison on transhumance/pastoralism dynamics with other European mountain systems (Alps, Carpathians) to strengthen the broader biogeographic context.
Radiocarbon table: Beyond the agreed CI/median additions, explicitly include the dated material type for each sample in Table 1.
Core naming consistency: Standardize core/section naming (e.g., 1U–5U, TRAM20-1A, TRAM21-1A) consistently across text, tables, and figures; the master-core approach should be removed as agreed.
Age-model coherence: Resolve the contradiction between the "hiatus" and "low sedimentation rate" interpretations for the lower core section, and align all figures (main and supplementary) with the single adopted interpretation.
Charcoal fuel-source analysis: incorporating charcoal morphological analysis to infer fuel source (e.g., following Florescu et al., 2024), would strengthen the fire-regime interpretation and directly complements the existing peak-detection approach. Do you have such data or is it easy to obtain/add those?

Florescu, G., Tinner, W., Feurdean, A., Finsinger, W., Kuneš, P., Vondrák, D., Heurich, M., van der Knaap, W. O., Brychová, V., Kletetschka, G., and Carter, V.: Forest composition and density shaped long-term fire regimes and catchment-lake interactions in the temperate-mixed mountain forests of Central Europe, Forest Ecology and Management, 572, 122267, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122267, 2024.

Thank you for submitting the revised manuscript and for responding carefully to the previous reviews. Both referees consider that their substantive concerns have been satisfactorily addressed and regard the manuscript as an interesting and valuable contribution. I am therefore pleased to accept the manuscript for publication, subject only to the following technical corrections (see details in the particular review reports):
- Define “transterminance” as synonymous with the more commonly used English terms “short-distance transhumance” or “short-range transhumance.”
- In Table 1, remove the column reporting the mean calibrated age and standard deviation. Retain the 95% confidence interval and median calibrated age.
- Correct Cardueae where necessary and use regular rather than italic type.
- Implement the remaining textual corrections: “until the last century” (line 11); clarify the sentence concerning the transition from the montane to subalpine belt (line 90); remove the duplicated “and” and use either “a photographic atlas” or “photographic atlases” (line 141); and replace “occurs lowly” with “occurs at low abundance” or equivalent wording (line 298).

These corrections are technical and do not require further scientific review. Please ensure that they are incorporated into the final manuscript during production.