Dear Editors and Reviewers,
Thank you for your letter and comments on our manuscript titled
“Temporal variability in soil moisture after thinning in semi-arid
Picea crassifolia
plantations in northwestern China
”(FORECO_2017_459
). These comments helped us improve our manuscript, and provided important guidance for future research.
We have addresse
dthe editor
’s and the reviewer
s’comments to the best of our abilities, and revised text to meet the
Forest Ecology and Management
style
requirement ...