Spatiotemporal Variations in the Intensity of Human Activity in Inner Mongolia and the Identification of Influencing Forces

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to read the manuscript entitled "Spatiotemporal Variations in Human Activity Intensity of Inner Mongolia and an Identification of Influencing Forces". The topic of this manuscript is interesting and would be a good contribution to this field. I think it could be considered for publication in Sustainability once the following issues are addressed.

1. Please replace the keywords that already appear in the manuscript’s title with close synonyms or other keywords, which will also facilitate your paper to be searched by potential readers.
2. The resolution of quite some the Figures (e.g., Fig.1 and Fig.2) in the manuscript should be improved, as some texts are hard to be read clearly.
3. The spatial weight matrix(s) used for the model Get-Ord Gi* should be specified.
4. Lines 55-56: “…, and other methods to quantify human activity intensity.”: The corresponding references should be added here, for example, some geo-spatial big data-based ways were used by some papers like “How does urban expansion impact people’s exposure to green environments? A comparative study of 290 Chinese cities”.
5. It is suggested to include the Limitations as a subsection in the Discussion section.
6. Lines 157-158: “… overcome the limitations of traditional statistical methods in dealing with categorical variables [30,31]. ”: Some newly published papers which used Geographical Detector Models are suggested to be citied here, for example, the paper titled “Observed inequality in urban greenspace exposure in China”.
7. Some grammatical errors still exist. Therefore, a critical review of the manuscript language will improve readability.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Spatiotemporal Variations in Human Activity Intensity of Inner Mongolia and an Identification of Influencing Forces. ID: sustainability-1702186

Dear Authors,

My comments were added to the pdf file, so use them to revise your manuscript accordingly.

Good luck.

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Reviewer 3 Report

• Line 14, 19: “rela-tionship”, “in-creased”: correct it.
• Figure 1: The location of the study area in China is not clear. Instead of the global map, only the map of China is needed with the shapefile of the study area above it.
• Line 90: “Golballand30”: the correct is: GolbaLand30.
• Line 93: “Land Resources Satellite (Landsat)”: is not correct. Landsat not come from these words.
• Table 1: for the first and second classes something is wrong. Why is a natural forest named cultivated? Moreover, the source that you referenced is different than your Conversion Index number.
• Line 173: “and are the ....”: And what?

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to read the revised version of the manuscript titled "Spatiotemporal Variations in Human Activity Intensity of Inner Mongolia and an Identification of Influencing Forces", and for the detailed responses to my earlier comments. I am satisfied with this revised version, and I think it is acceptable now.

Author Response

Dear reviewer:

Thanks very much for taking your time to review this manuscript. I really appreciate all your comments and suggestions! 

Thank you and best regards.

Reviewer 2 Report

Spatiotemporal Variations in Human Activity Intensity of Inner Mongolia and an Identification of Influencing Forces. ID: sustainability-1702186

Dear Authors,
Thank you for your efforts in revising your paper manuscript. I found the manuscript still needs a few corrections, and my comments were written in the pdf file.
Good luck.

 

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Reviewer 3 Report

Figure 4. Inside the figure, last year came then first year (2010-2000, 2020-2010) but in the title of the figure it is revised (2000-2010, 2010-2020), the style should be constant during your manuscript.

Title of Figure 5. It is in different font size.

Figure 6 and other figures: “HAILS “, terms should be written in full in title of figures and tables.

Line 286 and some other places: title of figure 11, “3.1.2.2Change”, “from43.57% “, “3.1.2.3Change “, “Figures 9and10 “, correct spaces problem in your manuscript.

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