Dear Dr. Schwendenmann,

Your manuscript has been evaluated by three independent reviewers. All of them found your study performed well and your manuscript being of high quality. After thorough revision of the manuscript, as outlined in your replies to the referee comments, it can be accepted for publication in SOIL.

I do not see that the insertion of the collars will significantly influence CO2 efflux 10 months after the insertion. Please add in l. 173 that the first 10 months after the insertion were not used to assess the CO2 efflux (as written in response to reviewer 3 comment 6).
If models with different numbers of variables are going to compared (Q10 functions with 2 or 3 variables) the AIC should be used as indicator for the best model and not the RMSE or R2.
Please provide the soil type in WRB classification for your study site (l. 147).

I am looking forward to see your revised manuscript uploaded.

Best regards,
Axel Don

Dear Authors,

Thank you for the revised version of your paper. Its getting a very nice paper now.

Looking forward to see it published in SOIL
Best regards,
Axel

Dear authors, is is a pleasure to inform you that your manuscript is now accepted for publication in SOIL.

Thanks for consider SOIL as the journal where submit your interesting results.

Best regards

Jorge