allocation discussion

[beckybanbury]

@teixeirak Reviewer 2 says:

2. A key conclusion is no detectable differences in allocation across latitude or climates, however, I do not see a strong evidence for that presented in the main text Fig.S3 does show several allocation indicators though no statistics are provided. Fig. 2 shows that C fluxes increase approximately in proportion to one another, but that does not necessarily mean allocation is unchanged across latitude or climates.

I think firstly fig. S3 can be improved by making it clearer that the lines of best fit are NS, which I will edit (as well as the other suggestions of adding CUE), but do you think it's worth looking at presenting these results more centrally in the main text? Currently we just state results are not significant.

[beckybanbury]

In addition to this the reviewer notes :

5. I am also wondering about the representation of tropical and extra-tropical forests in the samples. One solution is to add a biome basemap in figure 1. If tropical forest stands are generally older than the extra-tropical forest stands (according to Histogram_of_Stand_age in the ForC database), then perhaps there is a need to standardize samples by stand ages when studying allocation.

Krista, I think you have a slightly better handle on the spread of ages - do you think this is something worth looking into for the allocation analysis (or even just including in discussion of this)?

[teixeirak]

I think firstly fig. S3 can be improved by making it clearer that the lines of best fit are NS, which I will edit (as well as the other suggestions of adding CUE), but do you think it's worth looking at presenting these results more centrally in the main text? Currently we just state results are not significant.

My current thought is not to present them more centrally, although I could be convinced otherwise if you or @hmullerlandau feel strongly about it.

[teixeirak]

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Krista, I think you have a slightly better handle on the spread of ages - do you think this is something worth looking into for the allocation analysis (or even just including in discussion of this)?

This presumes that we want to put a lot of focus on allocation, which I never have wanted to do....

In any case, the challenge is that it's easy to determine the ages of temperate forests with cores, so for the forests in your study we'd probably have mostly '999' (unknown mature/ intact) for tropical and some age >100 for temperate.

[beckybanbury]

In any case, the challenge is that it's easy to determine the ages of temperate forests with cores, so for the forests in your study we'd probably have mostly '999' (unknown mature/ intact) for tropical and some age >100 for temperate.

Good point - we can probably leave this then

[beckybanbury]

updated figure here and appendix is now updated

[teixeirak]

Thanks!