Interactive comment on “Modelling the climatic drivers determining photosynthesis and carbon allocation in evergreen Mediterranean forests

Gea-Izquierdo et al. present a landscape-scale biogeochemical model for the exchange of carbon over forest ecosystems. They describe adaptations to the basic model formulation to try and better represent the assimilation of carbon and its allocation within the tree. Key aspects of their formulation are the incorporation of nonstructural carbohydrate storage and the medium-term acclimation of photosynthesis and growth rates to temperature and water availability. They calibrate the model against observations from two forest sites, and use it to demonstrate that the processes of growth and photosynthesis are decoupled at these sites, in accordance with ecophys-