Interactive comment on “Herbicide weed control increases nutrient leaching as compared to mechanical weeding in a large-scale oil palm plantation” by Greta Formaglio et al

AR> We agree that is important to insert some specific data but we want to avoid getting a long abstract. We think that the difference in leaching losses between conventional and reduced management are the most important numbers to be shown so we will include them in the abstract by revising l 27-31 as follows: “Mechanical weeding reduced leaching losses of all nutrients compared to the conventional herbicide