I am having the hardest time finding a mesh that will hold in sorghum but also allow organism access to help with decomposition. Would you happen to have a link for the litter bag material you used for the pine needles?
Hi Brandon, for small things like pine needles or leaflets, I have had the best luck with windowscreen mesh. It is pretty fine, so you have issues with flow reduction and anoxia, plus you keep out larger bodied macroinvertebrates. But unless you want to bundle your sorghum somehow, you'll probably have to go with fine mesh.
hello my name is yulita. I am a student from Indonesia. I really like your video and I happen to be planning to check the rate of decomposition on the ground. peat. sorry beforehand, may I ask you, how to measure the rate of decomposition with this litterbag method ?. I hope you are pleased to answer it. So much from me, thanks🙏
Hi Yulita, I think one of the best published methods for leaf litter decomposition is found in the book "Methods in Stream Ecology" by Hauer and Lamberti - depending on the edition you can find, look for the chapter on "Decomposition of Leaf Material" by E.F. Benfield. This is an aquatic methodology though, so you might find better terrestrial methods in other sources. Good luck!
I am having the hardest time finding a mesh that will hold in sorghum but also allow organism access to help with decomposition. Would you happen to have a link for the litter bag material you used for the pine needles?
Hi Brandon, for small things like pine needles or leaflets, I have had the best luck with windowscreen mesh. It is pretty fine, so you have issues with flow reduction and anoxia, plus you keep out larger bodied macroinvertebrates. But unless you want to bundle your sorghum somehow, you'll probably have to go with fine mesh.
hello my name is yulita. I am a student from Indonesia. I really like your video and I happen to be planning to check the rate of decomposition on the ground. peat. sorry beforehand, may I ask you, how to measure the rate of decomposition with this litterbag method ?. I hope you are pleased to answer it. So much from me, thanks🙏
Hi Yulita, I think one of the best published methods for leaf litter decomposition is found in the book "Methods in Stream Ecology" by Hauer and Lamberti - depending on the edition you can find, look for the chapter on "Decomposition of Leaf Material" by E.F. Benfield. This is an aquatic methodology though, so you might find better terrestrial methods in other sources. Good luck!