Dear authors:

I have read carefully all your answers to referees' comments and suggestions and find most of them are satisfactory. Nevertheless, a revised manuscript is necessary to take a decision. So, please, upload a revised version. In this, please, mark modifications for every referee's comment (may be one different color for each referee). For any question regarding submission of the revised manuscript, please contact Natascha Töpfer at editorial@copernicus.org.

Thank you

Antonio Jordán
Topical Editor of SOIL

Dear authors,

I have carefully read your manuscript and find that all significant suggestions and comments by referees have been properly attended. In my opinion, the manuscript is almost ready for publication. In my opinion, only some minor changes are necessary (see below). After these changes are done, the manuscript will be ready for publication in SOIL.

Sincerely yours

Antonio Jordán
Topical Editor of SOIL
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Page 1, line 26. Rewrite: "...SSA increased with temperature".

Page 2, lines 25-26. This statement needs some support. Let me suggest some papers, more recent than those cited in the following lines:
Certini, G. 2005. Effects of fire on properties of forest soils: A review. Oecologia, 143, 1-10. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-004-1788-8.
González-Perez, JA et al. 2004. The effect of fire on soil organic matter - A review. Environmental International, 30, 855-870. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2004.02.003.
Mataix-Solera et al. 2011. Document Fire effects on soil aggregation: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 109, 44-60. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.08.002.

Page 8, line 19. ANOVA and other parametric tests require previous checking of normal data distribution (Kolmogorov-Smirnoff's or Shapiro-Wilk's test) and homogeneity of variances (Leven's test). Please, state that you have checked them.

Page 9, lines 19-20. Insert a space between "250" and "ºC". Check this through the text.

Page 9, lines 19, 26 and through the text. Substitute "m" with "masl" and insert a space between digits and units. Check this through the text.

Page 9, line 25. Substitute "seemed to decrease" with "decreased".

Page 11, line 19. Substitute "our" with "studied".

Dear Samuel Araya,

I am pleased to inform you that the manuscript "Thermal alteration of soil physico-chemical properties: A systematic study to infer response of Sierra Nevada climosequence soils to forest fires" (SOIL-2016-4) has now been accepted for publication.

Your accepted manuscript will now be transferred to the production department which will contact you if any action is required on your part.

Thank you for considering SOIL for the publication of your research.

Best regards
Antonio Jordán
Topical Editor of SOIL

Dear authors, I am pleased to inform that your manuscript has been now accepted for publication in SOIL. Doing a last checking after the recommendation of the Topical Editor, I found one more necessary technical correction. In Table 1, for the second place (Musick) the soil taxonomy name in last column is not complete. Please check it.

Once, congratulations for your article and thanks for chose SOIL to publish the results of your research.

Kind regards

Jorge