Distribution of Carbon-Sequestering Microbes in Different Habitats and the Interaction with Habitat Factors in a Natural Karst Cave
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsToo many comments have been added to the manuscript, so please send this document to the authors so they can check each comment line by line.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for Authors1.The abstract lacks key data and does not effectively highlight the unique features of the karst area, making it seem that the research conclusions have little relevance to the karst region.
2.The section of introduction need to be rewritten from.At present, the introduction is very illogical and unclear, and Research progress not enough, leading to the scientific problems of the preface are not very clear。
3.The study area description needs to added the content. At present, the description is very confusing,the Study area description is too fragmented and confusing.
4.The materials and methods are very confusing and require careful organization. At present, the logic is very confusing.
5.Microbial community and their diversity in Shiziyan cave,The content needs to be streamlined, and a lot of the content is repeated.
6.The discussion did not highlight the characteristics of this study and did not distinguish well the characteristics of karst and non-karst areas.
7.There are too many conclusions, which need to be summarized and simplified again.Especially for this part- Implications and limitations, it is recommended to merge
8.The texts in the whole manuscript are redundant and should remarkably condensed.
9.The legends in Figures 1 ,Figures 3 and 11 are not very clear, it is recommended to modify them.The font in Figure 9 is too small.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThank you for considering all the comments stated in your manuscript and I hope it was helpful to improve its quality. Best of luck! :)
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsSuggest accepting the manuscript
