Thank you for your conscientious responses to the reviewers' comments. I concur with Ref #2 that by changing some simple phrases in your work, you can expand the reach of the study to fire effects writ large in prairie systems, not just at Konza. I do not advocate wild speculation, but by making the suggested wording/phrasing changes you can indicate the broader relevance of your work. Please submit a revised version of the manuscript, reflecting your responses.

Line 388: ...than the IB treatment? Please clarify to be specific in meaning.

Consider using phrases from the last sentence of the abstract in the last sentence of the manuscript as well, such that "...is significantly affected by fire" is given some more directional, specific meaning.

Please add units to Table 1 (fraction? change to %, perhaps?), amend d13C with the proper Greek symbol, and indicate whether you mean to say "relative to a control" in the last phrase.

Please consider removing 'the' before 'tallgrass' in the title.

I am very happy to see this manuscript being ready for publication in SOIL. if you just do those few little things indicated by the topical editor, then this can be moved to production.
Thank you for choosing SOIL to publish this interesting work!
Jo