Reply to 'Flawed assumptions compromise water yield assessment'

Zhou, Ping ¹ ; Li, Qiang ²     ; Zhou, Guoyi ³     ; Wei, Xiaohua ² ; Zhang, Mingfang ⁴ ; Liu, Zhiyong ⁵ ; Chen, Xiuzhi ³ ; Liu, Xiaodong ⁶ ; Yin, Xiao ⁷ ; Sun, Ge ⁸ ; Scott, David F ² ; Zhou, Shuyidan ⁹ ; Han, Liusheng ¹⁰ ; Su, Yongxian <sup>11 

1</sup>  Key Lab of Guangdong for Utilization of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China 
²  Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada 
³  South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China 
⁴  Center for Information Geoscience, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 
⁵  School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China 
⁶  South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China 
⁷  Zhengzhou No. 1 Middle School, Zhengzhou, China 
⁸  Eastern Forest Environment Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, USA 
⁹  Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China 
¹⁰  Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China 
¹¹  Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou, China