Response to Editor to the comment by Delarue (2016) to our paper entitled 'Persistent high temperature and low precipitation reduce peat carbon accumulation'
1 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL Site Lausanne, Station 2, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering ENAC, Laboratory of Ecological Systems ECOS, Station 2, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
3 Department of Life Science and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Corso Ercole I d'Este 32, 44121, Ferrara, Italy.
4 Laboratoire de Chrono-Environnement, UMR CNRS 6249, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Franche Comté, 25030, Besançon, France.
5 Department of the Sciences of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Foggia, via Napoli 25, 71122, Foggia, Italy.