Response to Referee 1

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Authors are grateful for comments and suggestions from Referee 1. All raised issues were listed below and carefully answered. We had to run several other simulations to address some comments (especially the first comment). This did not affect results in the manuscript. Only descriptions and interpretations were modified.//--Referee 1 Comment 1: In my opinion the difference in time is very small in relation to the time it takes for biological reactions to occur such as organic matter remineralization. Without the authors presenting any reaction rates, especially for P remineralization and uptake, it is hard to judge whether the author's physics vs biology explanation is supported. In addition, the authors neglect to discuss temperature C1