Response to Čapek and Šantrůčková’s comment to “Liming effects on microbial carbon use efficiency and its potential consequences for soil organic carbon stocks” [Soil Bio. Biochem. 194: 109437]

We highly appreciate the effort of Čapek and Šantrůčková (2024), who in detail recalculated our assessment of the possible underestimation of microbial respiration rates measured in alkaline soils for analysing carbon use efficiency (CUE). Thanks to their comment, we were not only pointed to two typographical mistakes in Eq. 1 provided in our original manuscript (Schroeder et al., 2024), but also to an unfortunate error in unit conversion in our assessment provided in the supplemental information along with the original manuscript. We corrected these errors in an erratum. Čapek and Šantrůčková (2024) suggest that the potential underestimation of microbial respiration could affect our main conclusion on the relationship between soil pH and microbial CUE. Here, we present a revised estimate of the influence of the potential underestimation of microbial respiration on our results and argue that our main conclusions still hold.