Modeling the Underlying Drivers of Natural Vegetation Occurrence in West Africa with Binary Logistic Regression Method
, Li Jia 1,*, Massimo Menenti 1,3, Min Jiang 1, Jie Zhou 4, Yelong Zeng 1,2 and Ali Bennour 1,2
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I rate the article very positively. It is written at a very good level. I have only some technical comments on it, as indicated in the attached text.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The paper has been carefully written and is understandable. The language is clear. The methods are described in an exhaustive way, but, if I am allowed, didactic. The discussion sometimes takes up concepts already declared in methods. I must emphasize that the article is long for a scientific journal, despite the subject matter is substantially divided with the article cited as 11. Moreover, the topic is interesting, the method is well described and appears scientifically rigorous.
I only report:
- quote 56 refers to a link that does not work
- Line 271 the punctuation is incorrect
- Figure 1 is not immediate to see. Cameroon is not marked and perhaps because of my press in BW the states are not easily recognized
- The link http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/spatiallecon-geocon-v4 (line 311) does not refer to the distribution of the human population.
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Reviewer 3 Report
It's very cumbersome to read and find the key points of the manuscript. For example,
#1.Table 2-3
#2. It is difficult to understand different processes related to: Accessibility (Travel Time), Livestock Density, Human Activities (HANPP) and Demography (Population Density). It might be defined by one predictor variable related to anthropogenic effects.
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