Mapping Feasibility for Wood Supply: A High-Resolution Geospatial Approach to Enhance Sustainable Forest Management in Galicia (NW Spain)
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The article presents a topic of growing interest. It can be easily replicated by adjusting the variables.
The introduction is clear and contextualizes the problem that will be addressed in the article.
The case study is well presented with a clear description of the context to be worked on.
The materials section is clear in its references and limitations.
The methodology is quite complete and provides clarity.
The results are presented with a judicious analysis of what was found. They are presented clearly and with the support of the figures it becomes more understandable.
Congratulations on the presentation of the Discussion for being very complete and concrete. Additionally, it presents proposals to project the work carried out.
Very well presented and clear conclusions.
Congratulations on the work, very interesting research and written in a clear and coherent way.
The work could be accepted in its current presentation; however, I will make a couple of minor recommendations:
On line 81 they mention NFI for the first time, it is suggested that they describe the meaning of the acronym NFI.
In line 102 they talk about “disturbances”, it is suggested to clarify what is meant by disturbances.
Author Response
The work could be accepted in its current presentation; however, I will make a couple of minor recommendations:
On line 81 they mention NFI for the first time, it is suggested that they describe the meaning of the acronym NFI.
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This was corrected. |
In line 102 they talk about “disturbances”, it is suggested to clarify what is meant by disturbances.
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Examples were given to clarify this: “given the increasing number of disturbances that are currently affecting forests (such as wildfires, windstorms or insect outbreaks) [28,29,30].” |
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Reviewer 2 Report
Extremely important work for the efficient use of forest resources. It is well formatted in terms of methodology, results and discussion. Some small technical corrections necessary, such as citing the full scientific name and repeated words in the same sentence.
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Excellent English
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REVIEWER 2
Extremely important work for the efficient use of forest resources. It is well formatted in terms of methodology, results and discussion. Some small technical corrections necessary, such as citing the full scientific name and repeated words in the same sentence.
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The full scientific name was included. |
Abstract 42%
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This was corrected |
NFI
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The acronym was described |
Line 384
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Line 384 repeated word was corrected |
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Reviewer 3 Report
The manuscript entitled “Mapping feasibility for wood supply: a high-resolution geospatial approach to enhance sustainable forest management in Galicia (NW Spain)” described the classification of forest land based on the feasibility for wood supply. The manuscript is of broad interest to the journal readers in the field of forest management planning. I have no major comments.
I summarized my comments as follow.
Although the manuscript described the methodology for classification of forest land based on the feasibility for wood supply, I do not see the information of the forest stand, e.g., volume, tree density. It is important to get the information on how much volume can be harvested. What is the main management system currently used to manage a forest stand?
Line 31 – What is UE ?
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REVIEWER 3
The manuscript entitled “Mapping feasibility for wood supply: a high-resolution geospatial approach to enhance sustainable forest management in Galicia (NW Spain)” described the classification of forest land based on the feasibility for wood supply. The manuscript is of broad interest to the journal readers in the field of forest management planning. I have no major comments.
I summarized my comments as follow.
Although the manuscript described the methodology for classification of forest land based on the feasibility for wood supply, I do not see the information of the forest stand, e.g., volume, tree density. It is important to get the information on how much volume can be harvested. What is the main management system currently used to manage a forest stand?
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The reviewer is right. This information would be crucial to complement the current study and allow the estimation of wood supply in the study area. These variables are not currently updated in the study area; the only source dates from 2011 but it has not been generated in a geospatially explicit format. Nevertheless, there is a regional inventory program on course that would provide this information. We consider that in the format that is performed this current work once that information is ready it could be easily jointly analyzed to evaluate wood supply in the study area. Discussion on this topic has been included: “Once the FWS is obtained for the whole region, further studies about wood supply can be accomplished. For this end information of the forests stands like volume, tree density or management system will be needed. Nowadays these variables are not currently updated in the study area; the only source dates from 2011 (Spanish NFI [33]) but it has not been generated in a geospatially explicit format. The Galician government has recently launched a project, together with Galician forest universities, to update the forest inventory information in this region [68]. This project will provide detailed information on wood volumes and stand characteristics, among other outputs. Once the results are provided combined analysis of updated inventory variables with the FWS maps will allow to generate wood supply reports in the study area.”
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Line 31 – What is UE ?
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It was corrected to European Union |
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Reviewer 4 Report
I really appreciate the paper very much. Just minor questions and clarifications asked on the attached file. Performed research, methodology (but some points), results and discussion are fine to me, you did a very interesting work.
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English is fine for me.
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Please see the attachment
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