Tea Bag Index Revisited: Risks of Misleading Decomposition Patterns

IF 7.6 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI:10.1111/ele.70010

Taiki Mori

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Abstract

This study shows that recent global analyses using the Tea Bag Index (TBI) are influenced by methodological flaws: (1) the interdependence of stabilisation factor (S) and decomposition constant (k) biases correlation analysis, (2) derivation of S and k from separate decomposition curves causes their decoupling, and most importantly, (3) the determination of k is inaccurate.

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茶袋指数重温：误导性分解模式的风险

本研究表明，最近使用茶包指数（TBI）进行的全球分析受到方法缺陷的影响：(1)稳定因子(S)和分解常数(k)的相互依赖性偏差相关分析；(2)从单独的分解曲线推导S和k导致它们解耦；最重要的是，(3)k的确定不准确。

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Ecology Letters 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

17.60

自引率

3.40%

发文量

201

审稿时长

1.8 months

期刊介绍： Ecology Letters serves as a platform for the rapid publication of innovative research in ecology. It considers manuscripts across all taxa, biomes, and geographic regions, prioritizing papers that investigate clearly stated hypotheses. The journal publishes concise papers of high originality and general interest, contributing to new developments in ecology. Purely descriptive papers and those that only confirm or extend previous results are discouraged.