Tea Bag Index Revisited: Risks of Misleading Decomposition Patterns
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.
Authors
- Taiki Mori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-892X)
Institutions
- Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ecology Letters
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70010
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.52