Dear James,

Thank you for providing such a detailed and thorough response to the reviewer comments. Both reviewers encouraged publication and you appear to have addressed the moderate number of issues that they raised. I am therefore delighted to recommend that the manuscript be published, subject to some very minor editorial corrections, as follows (line numbers refer to the track-changes document):

Line 281: comma after "depth"?
Line 307: upper case 'S' in "stream"
Line 426: perhaps split the sentence, i.e. "Thus, the hydrological conditions..."
Line 579: this new sentences requires citation(s)
Line 609: delete "even"?
Line 610-613: Rather long and awkward sentence. Please re-write.

With best wishes,

Chris Stokes

Dear James,
Thank you for your prompt response to the final round of editorial corrections. I'm delighted to recommend that the manuscript be published and congratulate you on an important contribution to the literature.
Best wishes,
Chris Stokes