Reasons to not correct for leaching in TBI; Reply to Lind et al. (2022).

We believe that correcting for leaching in (terrestrial) litterbags studies such as the Tea Bag Index will result in more uncertainties than it resolves. That is, although shorter durations of leaching experiments increase the likelihood that they only quantify primary leaching, they result in a higher probability of missing events that contribute to primary leaching. Future litter decomposition and leaching studies will improve by careful interpretation of solid experiments, by being transparent about definitions used and by explaining the way in which leaching corrections were applied (if any). [Extracted from the article]