Projected Impact of Climate Change on Habitat Suitability of a Vulnerable Endemic Vachellia negrii (pic.serm.) kyal. & Boatwr (Fabaceae) in Ethiopia

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is a relevant study on the impact of climate change, centered in an especially vulnerable species as an example of the possible consequences. Therefore, this manuscript may be scientifically valuable and can help to save more species from extinction.

The Data analysis is detailed and there are also a great amount of tables and figures in this paper that helps to understand the results.

Some minor revisions prior to publication:

• It is necessary to check spaces between words in the whole manuscript. A lot of sentences have united words because of the lack of spacing and in other cases there is excessive distance, which makes reading difficult. Some examples: Line 13, 18, 22, 24, 28, 50, 51, 59, 68, 75, 100, 117, 121, 140, 141, 155, 156, 157, 176, 200, 206, 208, 334.
• I detected different types of fonts and formats in the manuscript. Please unify them. Lines 79, 105, 119, 233-244.
• Legend and the axis in Figure 6 are blurry. Please improve the quality of this figure.
• In 6. Conclusion, Vachellia negrii lacks italics in Lines 317, 320-321, 326.
• Line 334: Authors are Fielding A.H. and Bell, J.F

Author Response

thanks for your constructive comments on our paper we have been working since the first day. we hope you will be satisfied with our work. 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The ms by Semu et al. on projecting distributional changes in a plant species is, in general, interesting. This kind of research will probably become quite common in he face of climate change. There is much to offer in terms of data and analysis. However, the ms is simply not ready for publication. There are so many typos that reading the ms was hindered. And these are not just English language problems, but simple careful editing would have taken care of them. Most of the figures are blurry, so hopefully sharper images are available for publication. The in-text descriptions and explanations of the figures and tables were hard to follow and need to be clearly tied to the figure/table and clearly explained. 

One key variable used in the study is solar radiation. However, I could not tell what is meant by it. What units were used to measure it? Calories/gram/cm²? How were changes in re-radiation incorporated? Albedo? While incoming solar radiation will not appreciably change, the amount of trapped re-radiated insolation will (is) changing. Will cloud cover change in the region, thus changing the amount of insolation that reaches the surface? I think these points of clarification are critical because solar radiation ends up being a significant factor in the study. 

Author Response

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