This is a GitHub repository for the Tundra Tea Bag Experiment Analysis
This repository contains code and data necessary to replicate data analysis, figures, and tables in "Litter quality outweighs climate as a driver of decomposition across the tundra biome".
Thomas, H.J.D.; Myers-Smith, I.H.; Høye, T.T.; Petit Bon, M.; Lembrechts, J.; Walker, E.R.; Björnsdóttir, K.; Barrio, I.C.; Jónsdóttir, I.S.; Venn, S.; Alatalo, J.M.; Baltzer, J.L., Wallace, C.A.; Ackerman, D.; Gough, L.; Prevéy, J.; Rixen, C.; Carbognani, M.; Petraglia, A.; Christianen, C.T.; Inouye, D.W.; Ogilvie, J.E.; Trouillier, M.; Wilmking, M.; Treharne, R. Angers-Blondin, S.; Urbanowicz, C.; von Oppen, J.; Wipf, S.; Smith, P.; Suzuki, S.; Suzuki, R.O.; Virkkala, A-M.; Luoto, M.S.; Serikova, S.; Bjorkman, A.D.; Blok, D.; Gallois, E.C.; Sarneel, J.M. 2023. Litter quality outweighs climate as a driver of decomposition across the tundra biome. EcoEvoRxiv Preprint at https://doi.org/10.32942/X2M880
Code and data are publicly available using a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International copyright (CC BY 4.0).
This dataset will be maintained at this GitHub repository (https://github.com/ShrubHub/TundraTeaHub/).
The project was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (ShrubTundra Project NE/M016323/1 & PhD Studentship NE/L002558/1 [HT]), The Swedish Research Council (Grant/Award Number: 2015-00465), Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (Grant/Award Number: INCA 600398), The University of Iceland Research Fund, Polar Knowledge Canada, ArcticNet, NSERC Changing Cold Regions Network, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), the International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT), the Swedish Research Council (VR), the Strategic theme Sustainability of Utrecht University (sub-theme Water, Climate and Ecosystems), Carl Tryggers stiftelse för vetenskaplig forskning, Qatar Petroleum, US National Science Foundation (Grant 1637459), German Research Council (DFG GraKo 2010 Response), the Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund (Project grant 18/00517-3), the Norwegian Research Council (Project grant 269957/E10), Carlsberg Foundation Grant (CF14-0992), the Academy of Finland (project number 286950), the Otto A. Malm foundation, Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica and Nordenskiöld-samfundet. Additional data and contributions were the Government of the Northwest Territories - Laurier Partnership, Philip Marsh, Marlene Doyle, Kouichi Takahashi, Hajime Kobayashi, Mitsuru Hirota, Hideyuki Ida, Yasuo Iimura, Tatsuyuki Seino, billy barr, Annika Kristoffersson, Marc-André Lemay, Gergana Daskalova, Nadine Gilmour, the staff and research commission of the Swiss National Park, BioGeoClimate Modelling Lab. We thank the innumerable field technicians, logistics teams, graduate and undergraduate assistants for help with data collection. Special thanks to the Tea Bag Index core-team. Finally, we thank parks, wildlife refuges, field stations and the local and Indigenous people for the opportunity to conduct research on their land.