Effects of Altitude, Plant Communities, and Canopies on the Thermal Comfort, Negative Air Ions, and Airborne Particles of Mountain Forests in Summer

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

I have no comments, since the paper is good. 

Great job! Good luck in your future activity research!

Author Response

Thank you very much for your recognition of our work, and we will work harder in the future.

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is interesting, well-written and the subject is important.

I have just one suggestion: the results are important not only when choosing locations for forest bathing but also to urban and regional planning. I would suggest to include that information in the abstract and conclusions.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your recognition of our work. Your comments are valuable and helpful for revising and improving our paper, and we have modified the abstract and conclusion in the revised manuscript.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Editor

Thank you for inviting me reviewing a MS about Effects of Altitude, Plant Communities, and Canopies on the Thermal Comfort, Negative Air Ions, and Airborne Particles of Mountain Forests in Summer. It seems that the MS consists of substantial data regarding forest bathing.

I have very few suggestions for improvements.

Abstract: please add human in front of sub-health problems (Line 13)

Introduction: Little short, move some facts you have presented in discussion section.

Methods section has become little long, would be nice to trim it little short.

Color code of figure 6, better to use another color (blue/red)

Discussion: Line 451-452   please move this sentence to introduction part

                Line 453-454 These lines fit in the results section.

Overall the writing is discussion is loose. First highlight your results then compare or contrast with other findings. Also do not give first the general fact (such things should be introduction). For example, Line 467…NAI are a key indicator (this should come in introduction part)….first your result then argument and explanation on the basis of result.

Author Response

Dear editor and reviewers:

Thanks for your letter and for reviewers’ comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Effects of Altitude, Plant Communities, and Canopies on the Thermal Comfort, Negative Air Ions, and Airborne Particles of Mountain Forests in Summer” (Manuscript ID: sustainability-1620407). Those comments are all valuable and helpful for revising and improving our paper. We have studied all comments carefully and have made conscientious correction. Revised portion are marked in red in the paper. The main corrections in the paper and the responds to the reviewers’ comments are as flowing. We tried our best to improve the manuscript and made some changes in the manuscript. These changes will not influence the content and framework of the paper. We appreciate for reviewers’ warm work sincerely, and hope that the correction will meet with approval.

Once again, thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.

All the authors

March 22, 2022

Reviewer 3：

Comments to the Author:

Abstract: please add human in front of sub-health problems (Line 13)

Response: Thank you very much for your comment. We have added “human” in front of sub-health problems (Line 13) in the revised manuscript.

Introduction: Little short, move some facts you have presented in discussion section.

Response: Thank you very much for your comment. We have revised the introduction part and discussion part of the revised manuscript.

Methods section has become little long, would be nice to trim it little short.

Response: Thank you very much for your comment. We have modified the method part of revising the manuscript. Some contents of "Study Area and Measurement Sites" and "Measurements" are deleted.

Color code of figure 6, better to use another color (blue/red)

Response: Thank you very much for your suggestion. We have changed the color of figure6 to light blue in the the revised manuscript.

Discussion: Line 451-452 please move this sentence to introduction part

Response: Thank you very much for your suggestion. We have modified Line 451-452 in the revised manuscript. However, for logical reasons, we did not add this part to the introduction part, but put it in the method part to introduce the measurement indicators.

Line 453-454 These line s fit in the results section.

Response: Thank you very much for your suggestion. We have modified Line 453-454 in the revised manuscript.

Overall the writing is discussion is loose. First highlight your results then compare or contrast with other findings. Also do not give first the general fact (such things should be introduction). For example, Line 467…NAI are a key indicator (this should come in introduction part)….first your result then argument and explanation on the basis of result.

Response: Thank you very much for your comment. Your suggestions are of great help to the improvement of our manuscript. We have revised this part in the revised draft. After modification, our research results are first presented, and then the results are discussed and compared.

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