{"id":7025,"date":"2026-09-23T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:23:40","slug":"lichen-and-plant-succession-on-decaying-logs-mcculloughs-1948-decomposition-scale-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2026\/09\/23\/lichen-and-plant-succession-on-decaying-logs-mcculloughs-1948-decomposition-scale-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Lichen and plant succession on decaying logs: McCullough\u2019s (1948) decomposition scale revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><span style=\"color: #0d5c06;font-size: 10pt\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/13595_2026_1343_Fig1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7027 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/13595_2026_1343_Fig1-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/13595_2026_1343_Fig1-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/13595_2026_1343_Fig1-1024x482.png 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/13595_2026_1343_Fig1-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/13595_2026_1343_Fig1-640x302.png 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/13595_2026_1343_Fig1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Research paper<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key message\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The arbitrary 8-degree scale of dead wood decomposition is an excellent tool for studying changes in the flora of lichens and plants on decaying logs in forest ecosystems. With this scale, we showed that species turnover closely resembles the relay floristics scenario in the most species-rich forests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<br \/>\n<\/strong>Coarse woody debris; Fallen logs; Succession; Wood decomposition<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-026-01343-9'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nChmura, D., Staniaszek-Kik, M. &amp; \u017barnowiec, J. Lichen and plant succession on decaying logs: McCullough\u2019s (1948) decomposition scale revisited.\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a0<b>83<\/b>, 28 (2026). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-026-01343-9\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-026-01343-9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nErwin Dreyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research paper Key message\u00a0 The arbitrary 8-degree scale of dead wood decomposition is an excellent tool for studying changes in the flora of lichens and plants on decaying logs in forest ecosystems. With this scale, we showed that species turnover closely resembles the relay floristics scenario in the most species-rich forests. Keywords Coarse woody debris; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,109,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-open-access","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-109-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","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=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7028,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}