Soil Density Characterization in Management Zones Based on Apparent Soil Electrical Conductivity in Two Field Systems: Rainfeed and Center-Pivot Irrigation

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I commend the authors for a well-written manuscript. Figures and tables were properly prepared. Results and discussion were well-thought of.

This manuscript has the potential to get accepted in this journal, however, there are things that I feel need improvement in this manuscript that can highly improve the quality of the manuscript.

 

1.      What is the novelty of the paper, what is new in this study that were not yet explored/examined/explained by others?

2.      Moreover, I would also like to see a line or two about the background and also about conclusion in the abstract section.

3.      What is the importance of this study?

4.      Too many aims with no clear focus on what is investigated and why? Simpler question can make it easier to understand for readers.

5.      There are some spacing issues in some sentences, correct them

6.      How do the authors think this study differs from already published studies? What makes this study a critical article?

7.      Highlight the most important results especially the unique ones/novelty and make an in-depth discussion about these important results.

8.      When using comparative adjectives, you should always provide a reference used for the comparison.

9.      It is better to summarize your results making some generalization of your study instead of repeating again what correlates with what.

10.  Avoid changing verbal tense within paragraphs or even sentences.

11.  The figures and table captions can be improved and supplemented with more details.

12.  Figure-Take note of the items that must be written in superscript in X-axis and y-axis.

13.  What are the implications of the results?

14.  What is the take home message that will imprint to the minds of the readers after reading the paper? 

15.  The above comments should be carefully checked and identified inconsistences should be corrected throughout the manuscript.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer, We appreciate your valuable contribution to our study.
Attached I send answers to the questions asked.
Sincerely;

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Reviewer 2 Report

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Author Response

Dear Reviewer, We appreciate your valuable contribution to our study.
Attached I send answers to the questions asked.
Sincerely;

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Reviewer 3 Report

1.            Soil moisture is effective in the electrical conductivity of the soil. How was it controlled that the soil moisture of the two agricultures region areas were close to each other during the preparation of the samples (0.127 and 0.13)? It is need to clear explain in material and methods.

2.            Soil salinity is effective in soil electrical conductivity. Soil salinity should be added to the text in in two agricultural regions َA and B.

3.            Soil salinity is related to soil electrical conductivity. It is suggested to provide an estimate of soil salinity in two agricultural regions َA and B.( remote sensing Technical Note

A New Approach for Estimating Soil Salinity Using A Low-Cost Soil Sensor In Situ: A Case Study in

Saline Regions of China’s East Coast.

Jianjun Wang 1,2 , Quan Sun 1,2, Jiali Shang 3, Jiahua Zhang 4, Fei Wu 1,2, Guisheng Zhou 5 and

Qigen Dai 1,2,*)

4.            What are the hypothesis of the research? Add to the text.

5.            Research objectives should be clearly added to the text.

6.            Moderate English changes on text required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Author Response

Dear Reviewer, We appreciate your valuable contribution to our study.
Attached I send answers to the questions asked.
Sincerely;

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

I am grateful to receive a letter from the author. We see that the author has revised the manuscript extensively. However, some parts are still missing. Additional tests of normality are needed for indicators that perform spatial variability.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer;

Thanks for the suggestions. Attached is a file with the answer to your questions.

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