Dear Dr Sami Touil,
Many thanks for your responses to the comments offered by the reviewers of your paper. Could you now please proceed to prepare a revised manuscript, incorporating the suggestions made by the reviewers (and as outlined by you in your responses to the reviews)? If that is all completed satisfactorily, I think that your paper will be acceptable to proceed to publication in Soil. Please check carefully all of the relevant technical details (such as completeness of the revised reference list) before submitting the final version of your manuscript.
Best wishes to you and your co-authors, and many thanks for submitting your work to Soil.
kind regards,
David Dunkerley

Dear Dr Touil,
I am pleased to let you know that your revised manuscript has been checked by both original reviewers, and that both now recommend that after minor revisions, your paper be accepted for publication.

The paper will not need to be sent out for review again. If you would be kind enough to attend to the mostly fairly minor technical corrections to the manuscript, and lodge a final version, I will then pass the work on for publication.

I am sorry that it has taken some time to process your paper, but these days all reviewers seem to be busy and under time pressure.

The reviewers comments are contained in an attached pdf document for your attention.

I congratulate you on reaching this stage, and look forward to receiving the final version of your paper.

with best wishes
David

Dear Dr Touil,

Many thanks for making those final amendments to your manuscript.

I am very pleased to let you know that I have now recommended that your paper should be accepted for publication in 'SOIL'. You will be hearing from the production staff in due course, and I look forward to seeing your paper in print.

Congratulations on this acceptance and on handling so well as somewhat long review process. I hope you will agree that the manuscript is now in a form that will be more readily understood and appreciated by readers of the journal.

kind regards
David Dunkerley
Topical Editor

Dear Dr. Touil,

Thank you for submitting your work to SOIL, and I hope you will consider us for future publications.

Sincerely,
Eric Brevik