Both reviewers clearly indicate that they find this a very good paper that should be published in SOIL. However, both reviewers also indicate several changes they feel should be made before publication. I agree that the paper is interesting and fits well within SOIL. I also feel the required changes are relatively minor. Nevertheless, they must be adequately addressed before publication. Please make sure to do this, and clearly indicate what changes were made and/or why certain suggestions were not followed up in a detailed rebuttal. You already provided a rebuttal to the comments of the first reviewer, but I do not see a rebuttal to the comments of the second reviewer. Please provide this as well.

Upon reading the revised version of the manuscript as well as the detailed response given to the comments by the two reviewers, I feel the concerns raised were adequately addressed and the manuscript is now in a stage that it can be published without further revisions.

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