“…p5.l24: soil class cannot solely represent all the physical and chemical characteristics of conditions which influence the soil DOC concentration. You must include environmental parameters such as soil moisture (DeLuca, 1992;Kalbitz, 2000;Lundquist, 1999;Michalzik, 2001), temperature (Michalzik, 1999;Moore, 2008;Raymond, 2010), pH (Fröberg, 2011;Scheel, 2008), C:N and N effect (Gödde, 1996;Kindler et al, 2011) and soil texture (Davidson et al, 2006;Filip, 1971;Sollins, Homann, & Caldwell, 1996;Stotzky, 1967;Vogel et al, 2015) to have a realistic representation of DOC. p5.l26: You can find HWSD product which reports SOC directly (Nachtergaele et al, 2010).…”