Dear authors,
Thank you very much for submitting the manuscript and your reply to the reviewers comments. Please consider all of the comments of the reviewers and your reply for the revision of the manuscript.

Dear authors,

Thank you very much for the revision of your paper. I have just three comments:
Please explain the acronyms of the snow treatments in the abstract as well (p. 2, lines 9-10).

There is a typo at page 9, line 28.

At p. 15, lines 7-8 you stated that physical protection by soil aggregates has not been observed in Arctic soils. I would question that in mineral soil horizon.

Furthermore, interactions of organic matter with soil minerals might play a role as well for C protection in mineral soil horizons (e.g. papers by the group of G. Guggenberger). You did not analyze these factors. Please change that appropriately.

I would strongly suggest to add the depths of the organic and mineral soil horizons to table 1 as well (not just in the text). Then, a reader can link the different properties easily to the different depths.

Thank you very much and I look forward to your (finally) revised paper.
Karsten Kalbitz

Thank you for your well presented paper and choosing SOIL!

It would be interesting to find out what were the fungal community trends in those soils!

We hope to work with you further in the future!
Lily Pereg