Using accumulated degree-days to estimate the postmortem interval from decomposed human remains.

By M. Megyesi, S. Nawrocki, N. Haskell. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2005

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Delayed insect access alters carrion decomposition and necrophagous insect community assembly (2014, methodology): “Temperature data were converted into accumulated degree hours (ADH), which accounts for temperature variation over decomposition time; this is important to insect life history, growth and development (Megyesi et al. 2005) and has been used to make estimates of the carrion decomposition time course (”
A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system (2013, methodology): “We used two independent methods to assess stages of decomposition: (A) a visual body score estimate of decomposition following the Megyesi Key (Megyesi et al., 2005) and (B) the pH of soil to determine when rupture had occurred.”
Cadaver decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems (2006, background): “In recent years, these goals were incorporated by forensic science to understand the decomposition of human cadavers (Rodriguez and Bass 1983; Spennemann and Franke 1995; Carter and Tibbett 2006), to provide a basis on which to estimate postmortem and/or postburial interval (Willey and Snyder 1989; ”