英文回复信范例ResponseLetter.docx

Dear Editors and Reviewers,
Thank you
for your letter and comments on our
manuscript titled
“Temporal
variability in soil moisture after thinning in semi-arid
Picea crassifolia plantations in
northwestern China” FORECO(
_2017_459 ). These comments helped us improve our
manuscript, and provided important guidance for future research.
We have addressed the editor’s and the reviewers’comments to the best of
our
abilities, and revised text to
meet the Forest Ecology and Management style
requirements. We hope this meets your requirements for a publication.
We marked the revised portions in red and highlighted them yellow in the
manuscript. The main comments and our specific responses are detailed below:
Editor:
Please explain how the results in this paper are significantly different from those in
Zhu, X., He, ., Du, J., Yang, ., Chen, ., 2015. Effects of thinning on the soil
moisture of the Picea crassifolia plantation in Qilian Mountains. Forest Research. 28,
55–60.)
Response:We apologize for our earlier lack of clarity about the differences between
our study and those in“Zhu, X., He, ., Du, J., Yang, ., Chen, ., 2015. Effects
of thinning
on the
soil moisture
of the Picea crassifolia plantation
in Qilian
Mountains.
Forest
Research. 28,
55–60” (named “ previousarticle
”below).
Specifically,
we found three main differences in the temporal variability
and
hydrological responses of soil moisture between our study andthe “ previous article.
”
First, the scope of data analysis and use were different: The “ previousarticle
”
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just applied the one growing season data (from June 28 to October 25
the natural forest and the plantations with no thinning and thinned in 20% intensity. In
addition, the “ previous article also has” not considered the effect of 40%