Importance of Considering Enzyme Degradation for Interpreting the Response of Soil Enzyme Activity to Nutrient Addition: Insights from a Field and Laboratory Study
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript brings an important technical issue related to the analysis soil enzyme activity: the nutrient addition (an experimental treatment) can alter enzyme degradation during soil storage, thus leading to inaccurate interpretation of the results when using stored soils. The text is well written and the results well presented. My main concern is the lack of the treatment just with N addition, as it is suggested that N fertilization would be the major driver of enzyme degradation. I agree that it can be an explanation, but there is also the possibility of a synergetic effect between N and P.
Minor points:
- The introduction is complete, but the paragraphs are too long.
- Please provide the statistical comparison of data in Table 2.
- Would you expect differences between AA and EU stands? Please discuss this aspect.
Author Response
Cover Letter
May 29, 2023
Forests-2410819
Title: Importance of considering enzyme degradation for interpreting the response of soil enzyme activity to nutrient addition: insights from a field and laboratory study
Authors: Taiki Mori, Senhao Wang, Cheng Peng, Cong Wang, Jiangming Mo, Mianhai Zheng, Wei Zhang*
Correspondence: [email protected]
Dear Reviewers and Editor,
Forests,
Thanks for your decision and constructive comments on our manuscript. Thank you very much again for your reviewing the revision. We tried to do our best to revise the manuscript following the comments from Reviewers. All the changes that we have made in the revised manuscript. Please find the point-to-point replies to the comments in the PDF file.
Sincerely,
On behalf of co-authors,
Wei Zhang and Taiki Mori
Author Response File: 
Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
Please refer to the attached file uploaded.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
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English writing is OK.
Author Response
Cover Letter
May 29, 2023
Forests-2410819
Title: Importance of considering enzyme degradation for interpreting the response of soil enzyme activity to nutrient addition: insights from a field and laboratory study
Authors: Taiki Mori, Senhao Wang, Cheng Peng, Cong Wang, Jiangming Mo, Mianhai Zheng, Wei Zhang*
Correspondence: [email protected]
Dear Reviewers and Editor,
Forests,
Thanks for your decision and constructive comments on our manuscript. Thank you very much again for your reviewing the revision. We tried to do our best to revise the manuscript following the comments from Reviewers. All the changes that we have made in the revised manuscript. Please find the point-to-point replies to the comments in the PDF file.
Sincerely,
On behalf of co-authors,
Wei Zhang and Taiki Mori
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
I consider that the manuscript can be approved given the important technical issue related to the analysis soil enzyme activity that it shows (in spite of the lack of N treatment).
Reviewer 2 Report
I am fine with the revision.
