Dear authors
thanks a lot for revising the manuscript and incorporating all comments made by the reviewers.
Both reviewers agreed that this is one of the few and important studies on the effects of land use conversion on nutrient leaching in the tropics and that the study is based on an extensive and elaborate data set. The authors have carefully addressed all comments by the reviewers thereby improving and clarifying the manuscript.

Please also incorporate ‘tree species’ more explicitly into the final version of the manuscript. You nicely clarified that ‘nutrient demand of vegetation and vegetation structure of the reference land-use are not the dominant control on leaching fluxes’, but the reviewer asked for ‘tree species’. I am aware that tree species and ‘vegetation’ are interlinked but you should clearly address/write that you do not expect that the different tree species composition between the sites was of minor importance for the leaching fluxes.