Dear Authors,
many thanks for the very thorough revision of your manuscript adressing the comments of the reviewers! It has really improved a lot.
I suggest very minor revisions, which are mainly technical ones:
Please revise again the manuscript thoroughly, as I found some minor mistakes and some strange phrasing (eg. in the correction manuscript: p12, l3: "manages" instead of "manage", or p12, l5-6 refrase and insert some interpunction...)
In addition, and this has to be revised, in p14, l19ff you justify your results mentionning eq. (2) and (3). But eq. (3) has been deleted. So you'll need to rewrite this paragraph. In this context, please delete also the mentionning of eq. (3) in p9f, l31f.
Besides these things, I think now, your paper will contribute to methodological knowledge and should be published after the thorough revision of the minor comments.
Yours sincerely

Dear Authors,
thank you very much for the corrections. I am really looking forward to see your article finally published. Please, accept my apologies for any delay that was my fault.
Finally, I only found one very little thing: at the end of the manuscript, in the Acknowledgements, the words in the last line are very widely spaced...

Best regards
Manuel Seeger

This looks like an interesting paper.

I look forward to seeing it published in SOIL

Best wishes

John Quinton