Dear authors,

thanks for your feedback on the important issues given by the reviewers. There were many important issues raised by both reviewers which need to be followed while revising the manuscript. There are also a number of smaller issues mentioned. As you seem to agree with the comments, which were mainly on how to write down the methodology and some discussions, it should be possible for you to revise your manuscript in such a way that all reviewers may agree and which would for sure lead to a better and clearer document.

I have few comments.

1) I would suggest to replace 'study' by spatial and temporal analysis' in the title

2) Abstract In the abstract, line 17, explain the meaning of the synergy evaluation index (to reveal spatial autocorrelations?). I would also do it in line 77

3) Line 79 you should not refer to the table, but this should be done in the methodology section.

4) line 85 remove --, and replace by 'which is a'