Impact of climate extremes on wildlife plant flowering over Germany

1. ...it would be interesting to see how the magnitude of a climate extreme is related to the shift in flowering dates (in days). This would strengthen the message of the paper ... We thank the reviewer for making this important point. We fully agree that an analysis like the one proposed here would be a valuable additional aspect of the present manuscript. We have followed the corresponding recommendation and have made corresponding further calculations. In our revised manuscript, we plan to accordingly provide an additional figure, which will (among others) highlight some results of this analysis. Figures 1 and 2 in this response show first

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