A longer-term view on benthic communities on artificial reefs: it’s all about location

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We are pleased to send you a revised version of our manuscript.We would like to thank the reviewers and you for their time devoted to the review of the manuscript, for the encouraging comments and for their suggestions, which I have no doubt, have enabled us to improve the manuscript.We have taken all of your feedback into account in the attached revised manuscript, and Supplementary materials. We would like to emphasize that following the suggestion by reviewer 1 we added the test of the artificial reef shape which led us to slightly modify the title of the manuscript in order to better reflect our findings:Artificial reefs geographical location matters more than shape, age and depth for sessile invertebrate colonization in the Gulf of Lion (NorthWestern Mediterranean Sea)We also provide a letter for each reviewer addressing their respective comments in details.We sincerely thank you for your time and effort that goes into the publication of this paper.