{"id":6730,"date":"2025-12-11T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:31:12","slug":"combining-wood-anatomy-and-chemical-fingerprinting-maximizes-tropical-timber-identification-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2025\/12\/11\/combining-wood-anatomy-and-chemical-fingerprinting-maximizes-tropical-timber-identification-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Combining wood anatomy and chemical fingerprinting maximizes tropical timber identification success"},"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\/25-12-11_Monnoye-M.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6731 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-11_Monnoye-M-190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-11_Monnoye-M-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-11_Monnoye-M-648x1024.png 648w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-11_Monnoye-M-640x1012.png 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-11_Monnoye-M.png 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Key message\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"&quot;justify\">A combination approach to wood identification methods yields superior results when identifying timber originating from the Central African tropics. This is demonstrated by the performance of DART-TOFMS as a fine-tuning step after the microscopic analysis of wood anatomy. These identifications reveal species misdeclarations in small-scale timber markets in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with detrimental ecological and socio-economic effects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nMicroscopy; DART-TOFMS; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Illegal logging; Local markets<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-025-01317-3'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nMonnoye, M., Wasukundi, M., Bourland, N.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0Combining wood anatomy and chemical fingerprinting maximizes tropical timber identification success.\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a082, 44 (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01317-3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01317-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data availability<\/strong><br \/>\nData is provided within the manuscript or supplementary information files. Supplementary material is provided in a public repository and can be accessed via the following: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.c.7957109.v3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.6084\/m9.figshare.c.7957109.v3<\/a> The repository contains a collection of the IAWA feature strings per sample, heatmaps and classifications of the metabolome profiles via DART-TOFMS and photomicrographs of the identified taxa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nErwin Dreyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key message\u00a0 A combination approach to wood identification methods yields superior results when identifying timber originating from the Central African tropics. This is demonstrated by the performance of DART-TOFMS as a fine-tuning step after the microscopic analysis of wood anatomy. These identifications reveal species misdeclarations in small-scale timber markets in the Democratic Republic of the [&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-6730","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\/6730","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=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}