Compendium of R code and data for "A Synthesis of Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments: Initial Leaching Losses Bias Decomposition Rate Estimates" and "Underestimation of Anaerobic Decomposition Rates in Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments by the Holocene Peatland Model Depends on Initial Leaching Losses"

This repository contains the data and code for our two manuscripts:

Henning Teickner, Edzer Pebesma, and Klaus-Holger Knorr (2024): A Synthesis of Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments: Initial Leaching Losses Bias Decomposition Rate Estimates. (not peer-reviewed preprint).

Henning Teickner, Edzer Pebesma, and Klaus-Holger Knorr (2024): Underestimation of Anaerobic Decomposition Rates in Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments by the Holocene Peatland Model Depends on Initial Leaching Losses. (not peer-reviewed preprint).

Please cite this compendium as:

Henning Teickner, Edzer Pebesma, and Klaus-Holger Knorr, (2024). Compendium of R code and data for “A Synthesis of Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments: Initial Leaching Losses Bias Decomposition Rate Estimates” and “Underestimation of Anaerobic Decomposition Rates in Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments by the Holocene Peatland Model Depends on Initial Leaching Losses”. Accessed 24 May 2024. https://github.com/henningte/eb1125

Code to reproduce each manuscript is in the folder in 📁 targets:

• 📁 leaching: > Henning Teickner, Edzer Pebesma, and Klaus-Holger Knorr (2024): A Synthesis of Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments: Initial Leaching Losses Bias Decomposition Rate Estimates. Preprint.
• 📁 hpm_decomposition: > Henning Teickner, Edzer Pebesma, and Klaus-Holger Knorr (2024): Underestimation of Anaerobic Decomposition Rates in Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments by the Holocene Peatland Model Depends on Initial Leaching Losses. Preprint.

To reproduce the manuscripts, run the ‘targets’ workflow by executing run.R in above folders.

Text and figures : CC-BY-4.0

Code : See the DESCRIPTION file

Data : CC-0 attribution requested in reuse. See the sources section for licenses for data derived from external sources and how to give credit to the original author(s) and the source.

• 📁 evo12547-sup-0001-suppmat(1)-Tab-S2.csv: This file is from the supporting information of Johnson et al. (2015).
• 📁 dpeatdecomposition_snapshot.rds: This file is the subset of the data from the Peat Decomposition Database (Teickner and Knorr 2024) we analyzed in this project.

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This study was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) grant no. KN 929/23-1 to Klaus-Holger Knorr and grant no. PE 1632/18-1 to Edzer Pebesma.