Table 2.

Moisture percentage of wood pieces inoculated with Thyronectria austroamericana and placed in landscape wood chip mulch.

Date	Percentage of moisture
	Position^z		Irrigation treatment^y
	Surface	Buried	High	Low
Experiment One
08/10/98	____^x	____^x	____^x	____^x
08/24/98	10.8 a^w	36.8 b	24.2 a	23.3 a
09/07/98	7.0 a	42.0 b	24.1 a	24.9 a
09/21/98	18.7 a	38.4 b	25.6 b	31.4 a
10/05/98	17.8 a	44.3 b	31.0 a	31.0 a
Average	13.6	40.4	26.2	27.6
Experiment Two
09/14/98	7.8 a	32.3 b	18.4 a	21.7 a
09/28/98	5.2 a	36.7 b	19.9 b	21.9 a
10/12/98	3.9 a	34.8 b	8.4 b	20.3 a
10/26/98	5.5 a	37.5 a	21.2 a	21.9 a
11/09/98	18.9 a	35.0 b	25.4 b	28.6 a
Average	8.3	35.2	20.7	22.9
Experiment Three
08/24/99	11.5 a	30.9 b	19.6 a	22.8 a
09/14/99	15.6 a	31.2 b	14.4 b	32.4 a
01/19/00	7.0 a	27.7 b	16.6 a	18.1 a
03/13/00	5.1 a	18.8 b	11.4 a	12.5 a
05/15/00	3.6 a	16.8 b	10.0 a	10.4 a
09/26/00	24.9 a	32.8 b	26.0 b	31.7 a
06/19/01	11.5 a	30.9 b	19.6 a	22.8 a
05/09/02	3.9 a	7.7 b	5.0 a	6.7 a
Average	10.4	24.6	15.3	19.7

↵^z Position: Surface wood pieces were placed on mulch layer surface, and buried wood pieces were buried 10 cm (4 in.) in mulch. In experiments one and two, N = 16; in experiment three, N = 32.
↵^y Irrigation: Low irrigation sites received 40% ET, and high irrigation sites received 160% ET. In experiments one and two, N = 16; in experiment three, N = 32.
↵^x Data not collected.
↵^w Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different at the P = 0.05 level at a particular date for position or irrigation treatment.