Dear Dr Masi,

Thank you for your submission of ‘Vegetation history and palaeoclimate at Lake Dojran (FYROM/Greece) during the Late Glacial and Holocene’ to Climate of the Past. We recognise the comments from the reviewers and appreciate your responses in the interactive discussion. Your paper will be acceptable for publication in Climate of the Past following major revisions. Although the comments from the reviewers require minor changes to the manuscript, it will be necessary for the editorial and data stewardship teams to review the new data citations and the archived data that relate to the comment made by the Data Review Team in the interactive discussion. It is for this reason that we accept your manuscript following major revisions. Therefore, we request that you:-

- carry out amendments to the manuscript following the comments and suggestions of both reviewers, and as agreed to in your responses in the interactive discussion;

- undertake the necessary submissions to online data repositories as outlined by the ‘Data Review Team Comment’ in the interactive discussion, making reference to these uploads where appropriate and providing the necessary data citations.

In support of a comment made by Reviewer 2 (“…the authors could expand on the work by comparing their results and findings more to other studies and thinking about the wider implications and underlying climate dynamics…”), we also request that the discussion be expanded to broaden the scope of the manuscript and ask that the authors consider the use of quantitative statistics to explore relationships between the proxies and / or climate records, which have so far been described qualitatively, in order to enhance the manuscript.

If you choose to submit a revised manuscript, please respond to the reviewer comments in turn and identify the changes made within the text.

We look forward to receiving the revised manuscript and thank you again for your submission to Climate of the Past.

Kind regards,

Rob Barnett

Dear Dr Masi and co-authors,

Thank you for submitting a revised edition of your manuscript "Vegetation history and palaeoclimate at Lake Dojran (FYROM/Greece) during the Late Glacial and Holocene". Thank you also for responding to all the reviewer comments as suggested. We will be pleased to accept your manuscript for publication following some very minor revisions. Please see below for details.

i) Please include full data citations including DOIs in the data availability statement. This is a requirement for publication in this journal. We understand that there is a delay relating to your repository of choice. We provide additional information relating to this requirement separately to this response.

ii) Please provide a more explicit and robust author contributions statement, highlighting the specific activities each author was involved in. In particular, please be explicit when identifying the pollen analysts involved.

Thank you again for your decision to submit to Climate of the Past. We are looking forward to progressing your submission onto the proofing stage soon.

Regards,

Rob Barnett (guest ed.)

Dear Dr Masi and co-authors,

Thank you for submitting a revised edition of your manuscript 'Vegetation history and palaeoclimate at Lake Dojran (FYROM/Greece) during the Late Glacial and Holocene'. We acknowledge your responses to the reviewer comments and are grateful for your work in ensuring that your new and valuable data will be available to the wider community via your chosen data repository.

The editorial and data-stewardship teams are pleased to accept this contribution for publication in Climate of the Past and will progress this submission on to the manuscript validation and copy-editing stages.

Kind regards,

Rob Barnett (guest-ed.)