{"id":6655,"date":"2025-12-08T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=6655"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:46:38","slug":"identification-of-ash-associated-understorey-diversity-a-lesson-from-historical-vegetation-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2025\/12\/08\/identification-of-ash-associated-understorey-diversity-a-lesson-from-historical-vegetation-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Identification of ash-associated understorey diversity\u2014a lesson from historical vegetation records"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-08_Richter-J.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6656 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-08_Richter-J-300x193.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-08_Richter-J-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-08_Richter-J-640x411.png 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-08_Richter-J.png 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a>Key message\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Forest communities historically dominated by common ash (<i>Fraxinus excelsior<\/i>\u00a0L.) were characterized by particularly high species richness in the understorey and included a distinct set of vascular plant species statistically associated with higher ash cover. These findings establish a valuable ecological baseline. The vulnerability index complements this by highlighting species potentially sensitive to environmental changes following ash decline, without aiming to assess current impacts of the ash dieback disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nUnderstorey vegetation; Historical vegetation data; Biodiversity; Ash dieback; Relative Importance Value<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-025-01304-8'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nRichter, J., Erfmeier, A., Jansen, F.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0Identification of ash-associated understorey diversity\u2014a lesson from historical vegetation records.\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a082, 30 (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01304-8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01304-8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data availability<\/strong><br \/>\nThe primary data supporting the findings of this study will be made available upon reasonable request. In addition, the supplementary appendix tables are available online via Zenodo: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15448502.\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15448502<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nErwin Dreyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key message\u00a0 Forest communities historically dominated by common ash (Fraxinus excelsior\u00a0L.) were characterized by particularly high species richness in the understorey and included a distinct set of vascular plant species statistically associated with higher ash cover. These findings establish a valuable ecological baseline. The vulnerability index complements this by highlighting species potentially sensitive to environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,109,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-non-classe","category-open-access","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-1-id","cat-109-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6658,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6655\/revisions\/6658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}