The reviewers have provided adequate comments for the improvement of this manuscript. The authors are advised to submit a revised manuscript that adequately addresses all the commnets by reviewers. Authors are strongly advised to address these comments and not to chose to ignore them.

There authors need to make additional corrections to the manuscript before publication is done. The uploaded file shows some of the suggested changes.

The author should aware that rainfall and evaporation are fluxes, and therefore when values are given for each one of these, the time interval over which each one of these was measured or estimated must be included, e.g.
5 mm/day and not 5 mm,
76 mm/month and not 76 mm
101 mm/year and not 101 mm

Almost all hydrology journals made a decision that when values of rainfall, evaporation, streamflow are given, they should be correctly written. I have highlighted in the manuscipt in yellow where these changes should be made.

The authos should be aware that words such as less, more, smaller, higher are comparative words. When writing the two items being compared must be stated, e.g.

sap flow rates for alien invasive species were higher than those for indigenous species.

Figure 2 make sure that rainfall axis is correctly written "mm/month"

Figure 3 is very confusing. The left Y axis has negative temperature values of up to -40 degrees. The right Y axis has rainfall and radiation combined. Which values relate to the top graph, and the bottom graph

Figure 4 and 5, what does each one of the lines represent, i.e. the dashed line and black line with markers? Readers are not expected to guess what a line in a diagram represents. Include a legend.

Figure 4 and 5 include "indigenous" and "alien invasive" before the name of the tree species so that this is clear to the readers.

Figure 6 and 7, Are you referring to soil water content on the Y axis and caption?. What does "corresponding" in the caption mean?

Table 2 is confusing. In the column labelled "Species" you have in each row the same name of a species written 3 times. Are these different? Presumably this could be referring to "small", "medium" and "large" trees. If that is the case, state this clearly. A reader should be able to understand information in a table withouth guessing.. If the flow rate is per day, then clearly write this in the column headings, e.g. L/day, L/year.

Figure 8 label for y axis, should be "mm/month". What does Et mean? Why is that the Y axis has no continous line? Avoid adopting Excel default formats which are not acceptable in publications.

Ensure that the listing of Reference uses the Journal preferred style.

The revised manuscript has greatly improved. The authors should provide the units of measurement for Vh, v1 and v2 in Equation (1).

Table 1, the columns presenting the diameter and class size of diameters should be given first before wood density so that readers will understand the differences between rows with the same species names. Please provide below the table a note showing the meaning of S, M, L, given in the class size column.

Table 2 I assume that different rows with the same species name refer to different diameter classes. A column showing this information should be included, otherwise you confuse the readers.