Impact of Shelterbelt and Peatland Barriers on Agricultural Landscape Groundwater: Carbon and Nitrogen Compounds Removal Efficiency

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Manuscript entitled "Impact of shelterbelt and eatland barriers on agricultural landscape groundwater: Carbon and nitrogen compounds removal efficiency" fits well in the Agronomy magazine. It is an interesting and valuable supplement to the knowledge on the current topic concerning non-point water pollution in agricultural areas. I think more data on this complex topic is needed in the future. I liked such a clear and well written manuscript.

 Specific comments:

3.1 pH

There are no references to the literature

4. Conclusions

 Conclusion can to be changed, maybe add an economic aspect. I think this section of article should be called Conclusion and Future Directions.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you very much for your suggestions and observations. They were very useful for corrections and resubmitting our manuscript.

We added pH's some references to the literature, and changed section "Conclusin" to "Conclusion and Future Directions". Also we added some words of economic aspect.

Kind regards

Marek Szczepański

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors aim to investigate the efficiencies of peatlands and sheltered seeing the changes in nitrogen and carbon contents that they could comprehend the role of those functioning as biogeochemical barriers. The explanation is clear enough on how the plants in each type of ecosystem aid in reducing organic carbon and nitrate. This manuscript, hence, can be useful material for readers in the agronomic field.

• The major requirement is reformatting the tables presented in the manuscripts. They create lots of confusion. Please reformat it.
• The abstract can be written more concisely. (Please see the attached file)
• The introduction and materials and method are written in good sequences.
• Except for the way that authors wrote N-total, N-NH4+. These should be written as NH4+-N. total N instead. (See the highlight in the attached file)

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

Thank you very much for your suggestions and observations. They were very useful for corrections and resubmitting our manuscript.

We reformatted the tables presented in the manuscripts. The Abstract is shorter now. The names of nitrogen forms was also changed, with your suggestion.

Kind regards

Marek Szczepański