Response to “Comment on ‘Root Water Extraction and Limiting Soil Hydraulic Conditions Estimated by Numerical Simulation’”

We appreciate the thorough analysis of our paper (de Jong van Lier et al., 2006, referred to as QdJ) made by T. [Schroder et al. (2007)][1] and would like to reply to their comments (referred to as TS). In their comment, the correctness of Eq. [45] in QdJ is questioned. The authors derive an