Everything about Excelsior

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ExcelsiorA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Volumetric overestimation of small branches in 3D reconstructions of <i>Fraxinus excelsior</i>Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Art corner [review of Shelley's The cenci]The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) dieback – A conservation biology challengeCited 338 times
5. Go sideways: Excelsior (Longfellow)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: CarverA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) dieback – A conservation biology challenge

  Marco Pautasso, Gregor Aas, Valentin Queloz · 2013 · Biological Conservation · 338 citations

• Chalara fraxinea sp. nov. associated with dieback of ash (Fraxinus excelsior) in Poland

  T. Kowalski · 2006 · Forest Pathology · 310 citations

• Chloroplast DNA variation and postglacial recolonization of common ash ( Fraxinus excelsior L.) in Europe

  M. HEUERTZ, S. FINESCHI, M. ANZIDEI · 2004 · Molecular Ecology · 301 citations

• Estimating mortality rates of European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) under the ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) epidemic

  Tim L. R. Coker, Jiří Rozsypálek, Anne Edwards · 2018 · PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET · 154 citations

• Presence of natural genetic resistance in Fraxinus excelsior (Oleraceae) to Chalara fraxinea (Ascomycota): an emerging infectious disease

  L V McKinney, L R Nielsen, J K Hansen · 2010 · Heredity · 148 citations

• Influence of light availability on growth, leaf morphology and plant architecture of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) saplings

  Any Mary Petriţan, Burghard von Lüpke, Ion Catalin Petriţan · 2008 · European Journal of Forest Research · 145 citations

• Fungi associated with necrotic apical parts of Fraxinus excelsior shoots

  K. Przybył · 2002 · Forest Pathology · 144 citations

• Impact of Tilia platyphyllos Scop., Fraxinus excelsior L., Acer pseudoplatanus L., Quercus robur L. and Fagus sylvatica L. on earthworm biomass and physico-chemical properties of a loamy topsoil

  J Neirynck, S Mirtcheva, G Sioen · 2000 · Forest Ecology and Management · 143 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Volumetric overestimation of small branches in 3D reconstructions of <i>Fraxinus excelsior</i>

  Miro Demol, Phil Wilkes, Pasi Raumonen · 2022 · Silva Fennica · 72 citations

• Fungal endophytes in Fraxinus excelsior petioles and their in vitro antagonistic potential against the ash dieback pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus

  Piotr Bilański, Tadeusz Kowalski · 2022 · Microbiological Research · 45 citations

• Fungi associated with stem collar necroses of Fraxinus excelsior affected by ash dieback

  Sandra Peters, Sebastian Fuchs, Steffen Bien · 2023 · Mycological Progress · 27 citations

• Protective effect of a hydromethanolic extract from Fraxinus excelsior L. bark against a rat model of aluminum chloride-induced Alzheimer's disease: Relevance to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects

  Amin Iranpanah, Sajad Fakhri, Gholamreza Bahrami · 2024 · Journal of Ethnopharmacology · 26 citations

• Multiple, Single Trait GWAS and Supervised Machine Learning Reveal the Genetic Architecture of Fraxinus excelsior Tolerance to Ash Dieback in Europe

  James M. Doonan, Katharina B. Budde, Chatchai Kosawang · 2025 · Plant, Cell &amp; Environment · 21 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Art corner [review of Shelley's The cenci]George Bernard Shaw · 1885
• 📕A brief sketch of Colorado territory and the gold mines of that regionJohn Wetherbee · 1863
• 📕El atentado contra ExcélsiorVicente Leñero · 1976
• 📕From the slavery of 1776 to the freedom of 1876Mass.) Ladies' Excelsior Charitable Association (Boston · 1876
• Aspen for excelsiorHereford Garland · 1949
• 📕Excelsior Volunteer Fire DepartmentGrace A. Peck · 1993
• 📕El excelsior de SchererEfrén Aguirre · 1973
• 📕The Excelsior School Nevis

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