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文档 DearEditorsandReviewers, Thankyoufor yourletterandcommentsonourmanuscripttitled “Temporal variabilityinsoilmoistureafterthinninginsemi-aridPiceacrassifoliaplantationsin northwesternChina FORECO”(_2017_459).Thesecommentshelpedusimproveour manuscript,andprovidedimportantguidanceforfutureresearch. Wehaveaddressedtheeditor ’andsthereviewerscomments’tothebestofour abilities, andrevisedtexttomeettheForestEcologyandManagementstyle requirements.Wehopethismeetsyourrequirementsforapublication. Wemarked therevisedportions inredandhighlighted themyellowinthe manuscript.Themaincommentsandourspecificresponsesaredetailedbelow: Editor: Pleaseexplainhowtheresultsinthispaperaresignificantlydifferentfromthosein Zhu,X.,He,Z.B.,Du,J.,Yang,J.J.,Chen,L.F.,2015.Effectsofthinningonthesoil moistureofthePiceacrassifoliaplantationinQilianMountains.ForestResearch.28, 55–60.) Response:Weapologizeforourearlierlackofclarityaboutthedifferencesbetween ourstudyandthosein “Zhu,X.,He,Z.B.,Du,J.,Yang,J.J.,Chen,L.F.,2015.Effects ofthinningonthesoilmoistureof thePiceacrassifoliaplantationinQilian 文档 Mountains.ForestResearch.28, 55–60”(named “previousarticle ”below). Specifically, wefoundthreemaindifferencesinthetemporalvariability and hydrologicalresponsesofsoilmoisturebetweenourstudyandthe “previousarticle First,thescopeofdataanalysisanduseweredifferent:The“previousarticle” th th 2013)from justappliedtheonegrowingseasondata(fromJune28toOctober25 thenaturalforestandtheplantationswithnothinningandthinnedin20%intensity.In addition,the “previousarticle ”alsohasnotconsideredtheeffectof40%thinningon thesoilmoistureofthePiceacrassifoliaplantation.However,inthepresentstudy,we appliedfouryearsdata(fromJune27th 2012toOctober30th2015inHDandNF; fromJanuary1th2014toOctober29th2015inMDandLD)fromthenaturalforest andtheplantationswithnothinning,thinnedin20%,andthinnedin40%intensityto analysisthetemporalvariability andhydrologicalresponsesofsoilmoisturein semi-aridPiceacrassifoliaplantationsinnorthwesternChina. Second