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REPLYING TO M. Javaux, Y. Rothfuss, J. Vanderborght, H. Vereecken & N. Brüggemann Nature 536, 10.1038/nature18946 (2016)

In the accompanying Comment¹, Javaux et al. correct a mistake in equation (2) of our work²; as they point out¹, the mistake does not impact the central conclusion of our paper that ecohydrological separation is widespread². However, equations (2) and (3) in ref. 2 calculate the source precipitation value of xylem water as the point where the xylem water evaporation line (EL) intersects the local meteoric water line (LMWL). In so doing, Javaux et al.¹ note that the mistake affects our finding² that “at 80% of the sites, the precipitation that supplies groundwater recharge and streamflow is different from the water that supplies parts of soil water recharge and plant transpiration”.

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