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| Meelis PärtelSummaryAffiliation: University of Tartu Country: Estonia Publications
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Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospectsLars Götzenberger
Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 87:111-27. 2012..We underpin this general advice with guidelines that should be considered in future assembly rules research. This will enable us to draw more accurate and general conclusions about the non-random aspect of assembly in plant communities...
Contrasting plant productivity-diversity relationships across latitude: the role of evolutionary historyMeelis Pärtel
Institute of Botany and Ecology, University of Tartu, 40 Lai Street, Tartu 51005 Estonia
Ecology 88:1091-7. 2007..In summary, the shape of the productivity-diversity relationship differs between temperate and tropical regions and the different evolutionary history of the local species pools is a probable cause for the difference...
Dark diversity: shedding light on absent speciesMeelis Pärtel
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, Tartu 51005, Estonia
Trends Ecol Evol 26:124-8. 2011..We illustrate the dark diversity concept by globally mapping plant dark diversity and the local:dark diversity ratio...
Past and present effectiveness of protected areas for conservation of naturally and anthropogenically rare plant speciesAin Vellak
University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Department of Botany, 40 Lai Str Tartu 51005, Estonia
Conserv Biol 23:750-7. 2009..Different species groups, however, may not be uniformly conserved within protected areas, and all species groups should fulfill the target of 60% coverage within protected areas...
Small-scale grassland assembly patterns differ above and below the soil surfaceJodi N Price
Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Ecology 93:1290-6. 2012..Belowground assembly is largely driven by abiotic processes, with little evidence for competition-driven assembly, and this has implications for plant coexistence theories that are based on competition for soil resources...
Plant species richness belowground: higher richness and new patterns revealed by next-generation sequencingInga Hiiesalu
Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Mol Ecol 21:2004-16. 2012..Measuring plant belowground richness can considerably alter perceptions of biodiversity and its responses to natural and anthropogenic factors...
Microfragmentation concept explains non-positive environmental heterogeneity-diversity relationshipsLauri Laanisto
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Oecologia 171:217-26. 2013..The microfragmentation concept provides new insight into community level diversity dynamics and can influence conservation and management strategies...
Monitoring of biological diversity: a common-ground approachTiit Teder
Institute of Botany and Ecology, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia
Conserv Biol 21:313-7. 2007..This information will relate directly to several Convention on Biological Diversity indicators for assessing progress toward the 2010 Biodiversity Target...
Phylogenetically poor plant communities receive more alien species, which more easily coexist with nativesPille Gerhold
Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia
Am Nat 177:668-80. 2011..Low phylogenetic biodiversity, in contrast, facilitates coexistence between natives and aliens even if they share similar trait states...
