Compendium of R code and data for "A Synthesis of Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments: Initial Leaching Losses Bias Decomposition Rate Estimates" and "Peat Oxic and Anoxic Controls of Sphagnum Decomposition Rates in the Holocene Peatland Model Decomposition Module Estimated from Litterbag Data"

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

Teickner, H., Pebesma, E., & Knorr, K.-H. (2025). A synthesis of Sphagnum litterbag experiments: Initial leaching losses bias decomposition rate estimates. Biogeosciences, 22(2), 417–433. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-417-2025

Henning Teickner, Edzer Pebesma, and Klaus-Holger Knorr (2024): Peat Oxic and Anoxic Controls of Sphagnum Decomposition Rates in the Holocene Peatland Model Decomposition Module Estimated from Litterbag Data. (not peer-reviewed preprint). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-1739

Henning Teickner, Edzer Pebesma, and Klaus-Holger Knorr, (2025). Compendium of R code and data for “A Synthesis of Sphagnum Litterbag Experiments: Initial Leaching Losses Bias Decomposition Rate Estimates” and “Peat Oxic and Anoxic Controls of Sphagnum Decomposition Rates in the Holocene Peatland Model Decomposition Module Estimated from Litterbag Data”. Accessed 23 Jan 2025. https://github.com/henningte/eb1125

• 📁 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): Peat Oxic and Anoxic Controls of Sphagnum Decomposition Rates in the Holocene Peatland Model Decomposition Module Estimated from Litterbag Data. Preprint.

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

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.