Dear author
I found your paper very innovative, very advanced and probably one of the best paper I am reviewing in this season.
I think you must highlight how new and innovative is your research and for this you should mention what is traditional in the vineyard research to highlight your contribution
I suggest that you will have an introductory sentence such as the following one


The vineyards are being studied due to the high erosion rates (Novara et al., 2011; Lieskovský & Kenderessy, 2014; Martínez Casasnovas et al., 2015), their special man-made landforms (Tarolli et al., 2015); pollution (Fernández Calviño et al., 2013; Novara et al., 2013; Luis Parras et al., 2013) within an interdisciplinary view of the soil system (Brevik et al., 2015). However, very Little is known about the soil and water relationship on vineyards, although this is the key factor in the fate of the vineyards production due to his control on the vine quality and the vineyards management. This paper shed light on this topic.


E. C. Brevik, A. Cerdà, J. Mataix-Solera, L. Pereg, J. N. Quinton, J. Six, and K. Van Oost 2015 The interdisciplinary nature of SOIL
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Fernández-Calviño, D., Garrido-Rodríguez, B., López-Periago, J. E., Paradelo, M., and Arias-Estévez, M. 2013. Spatial distribution of copper fractions in a vineyard soil. Land Degradation & Development, 24: 556- 563. DOI 10.1002/ldr.1150
Novara, A., Gristina, L., Guaitoli, F., Santoro, A. and Cerdà, A. 2013. Managing soil nitrate with cover crops and buffer strips in Si cilian vineyards. Solid Earth, 4, 255-262. DOI:10.5194/se-4-255-2013.
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Paolo Tarolli, Giulia Sofia, Simone Calligaro, Massimo Prosdocimi, Federico Preti and Giancarlo Dalla Fontana 2015.Vineyards in Terraced Landscapes: New Opportunities from Lidar Data (pages 92–102)
Land Degradation and Development 26, DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2311

Novara, A., Gristina, L., Saladino, S. S., Santoro, A., & Cerdà, A. (2011). Soil erosion assessment on tillage and alternative soil managements in a Sicilian vineyard. Soil and Tillage Research, 117, 140-147.
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Dear authors, following the recommendation of the Topical Editor, I am grateful to let you know that your article has been accepted for publication in SOIL.

Congratulations

Kind regards

Jorge