Dear authors,

You point-to-point response to referee's comments is satisfying. I invite you to submit your new version of manuscript that will be checked by one of the former referees.

Best regards,

Sébastien

Dear authors,

I went through your responses to referee's comments and modifications of manuscript. I am overall satisfied and I invite you to submit your revised manuscrcipt. However, before submission, I suggest you to include some additional changes:
1) In your figures, it would be more useful for readers to label your sites with soil type rather than by their locations.
2) The fact that the C dynamics is higher in deep than surface soil for the podzol seems counterintuitive to me. At least it challenges the theory of the role of strong chemical linkage between organic C and oxydes/hydroxydes Fe in the long-term persistance of organic C in soils. In surface, the persistance of OM almost free of minerals also rises some questions. This deserves to be underlined and discussed.

Your submission will be checked by former referees

Best regards,

Sébastien

Dear authors,

I waited the comments from a second referee but for personnal reason this person is not available and the comments of the first referee is very positive about your new version of manuscript.

Therefore, I am delighted to inform you that your manuscript is accepted for publication under the condition, of course, the minor corrections suggested by the referee are integrated.

Best regards,

Sébastien

Dear authors,

I am delighted to inform you that your manuscript is now ready to be published. I am happy to see this nice piece of work shared to the scientific community.

Regards

Sébastien Fontaine