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A biodiversity monitoring framework for practical conservation of grasslands and shrublands

A negative heterogeneity-diversity relationship found in experimental grassland communities

scientific article

A roadmap to carefully select methods for dark‐diversity studies

scientific article published in May 2024

A simulation model of functional habitat connectivity demonstrates the importance of species establishment in older forests

scientific article published in 2023

A synthesis of empirical plant dispersal kernels

article

Agricultural policies exacerbate honeybee pollination service supply-demand mismatches across Europe

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

All dispersal functions are wrong, but many are useful: A response to Cousens et al

scientific article published in 2017

Alvar grasslands in Estonia: variation in species composition and community structure

article

Applied Vegetation Science in 2010: new opportunities for the vegetation scientists

Applied Vegetation Scienceenters its 20th year

Applied Vegetation Sciencein 2016: the leading journal promoting the application of vegetation science

Applied vegetation science addresses emerging global issues

Applying the dark diversity concept to nature conservation.

scientific article

Applying the dark diversity concept to plants at the European scale

article

Asymmetric patterns of global diversity among plants and mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Author Correction: Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published in 2024

Below-ground plant species richness: new insights from DNA-based methods

article

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

scientific article

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: It is time for dispersal experiments

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: It is time for dispersal experiments

Biodiversity patterns along ecological gradients: unifying β-diversity indices

scientific article

Bryophyte and vascular plant species richness in boreo-nemoral moist forests and mires

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Can limiting similarity increase invasion resistance? A meta-analysis of experimental studies

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Characteristic and derived diversity: implementing the species pool concept to quantify conservation condition of habitats

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Co-occurring grassland species vary in their responses to fine-scale soil heterogeneity

article

Collaboration networks and hot topics in the <i>Journal of Vegetation Science</i>

scientific article published in 2022

Community Completeness: Linking Local and Dark Diversity within the Species Pool Concept

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Community completeness as a measure of restoration success: multiple-study comparisons across ecosystems and ecological groups

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Community ecology of absent species: hidden and dark diversity

article

Competition, invasion effects versus invasiveness and fuzzy classification

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Conservation of Northern European plant diversity: the correspondence with soil pH

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Contrasting impacts of non‐native and threatened species on morphological, life history, and phylogenetic diversity in bird assemblages

scientific article published in February 2024

Contrasting plant productivity-diversity relationships across latitude: the role of evolutionary history

scientific article

Dark diversity at home describes the success of cross‐continent tree invasions

scientific article published on 01 April 2022

Dark diversity in dry calcareous grasslands is determined by dispersal ability and stress-tolerance

scientific article published in 2014

Dark diversity reveals importance of biotic resources and competition for plant diversity across habitats

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species

scientific article

DarkDivNet – A global research collaboration to explore the dark diversity of plant communities

scientific article published on 03 August 2019

Data availability for macroecology: how to get more out of regular ecological papers

scientific article published in 2006

Decomposing dark diversity affinities of species and sites using Bayesian method: What accounts for absences of species at suitable sites?

scientific article published on 16 April 2023

Determinants of fine-scale plant diversity in dry calcareous grasslands within the Baltic Sea region

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Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

Discerning the niche of dark diversity

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Dispersal limitation determines large-scale dark diversity in Central and Northern Europe

Diversity of lichens and bryophytes in hybrid aspen plantations in Estonia depends on landscape structure

scholarly article by Tiina Randlane et al published September 2017 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Dominance, diversity, and niche breadth in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

scientific article published in 2022

Drivers of plant community completeness differ at regional and landscape scales

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects

scientific article published on 21 June 2011

Editors’ Award, experimental approaches, functional traits and ecoinformatics

Editors’ Award, vegetation survey, remote sensing and restoration

Effect of habitat area and isolation on plant trait distribution in European forests and grasslands

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Effects of mutualistic and pathogenic soil mycobiota on forest ecosystem functioning: herbaceous phytometer growth on natural and sterilised soils

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

scientific article published on 31 March 2023

Environmental heterogeneity, species diversity and co-existence at different spatial scales

article

Environmentally Dependent Morphological Variability in Seven Apomictic Microspecies from Alchemilla L. (Rosaceae)

Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life

scientific article published on 26 March 2021

EstSoil-EH: a high-resolution eco-hydrological modelling parameters dataset for Estonia

scientific article

Establishment of protected areas in different ecoregions, ecosystems, and diversity hotspots under successive political systems

article

Estimating dark diversity and species pools: an empirical assessment of two methods

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Estimating probabilistic site‐specific species pools and dark diversity from co‐occurrence data

scientific article published in 2020

Expansion of a globally pervasive grass occurs without substantial trait differences between home and away populations

scientific article published on 06 June 2012

Extinction debt in a common grassland species: immediate and delayed responses of plant and population fitness

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Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

scientific article

Extinction of threatened vertebrates will lead to idiosyncratic changes in functional diversity across the world

scientific article published on 27 August 2021

Extirpation or Coexistence? Management of a Persistent Introduced Grass in a Prairie Restoration

scientific article published in 2003

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

FUNGAL SYMBIONTS. Global assessment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus diversity reveals very low endemism.

scientific article published on August 2015

Fine-root traits in the global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article published on 29 September 2021

Forest biomass, soil and biodiversity relationships originate from biogeographic affinity and direct ecological effects

scientific article published in 2019

Functional and phylogenetic community assembly linked to changes in species diversity in a long-term resource manipulation experiment

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Functional diversity through the mean trait dissimilarity: resolving shortcomings with existing paradigms and algorithms

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

scientific article

Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes

scientific article published in 2023

Functional types, climatic change and species richness

Genetic differentiation can be predicted from observational data for reproductive but not vegetative traits in a widespread short-lived plant

Global database of plants with root-symbiotic nitrogen fixation: NodDB

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Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity ⬇️

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Global macroecology of nitrogen‐fixing plants

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global maps of soil temperature

Global maps of soil temperature.

Global patterns and determinants of multiple facets of plant diversity

scientific article published on 13 March 2024

Global soil microbiomes: A new frontline of biome‐ecology research

scientific article published in 2022

Global taxonomic and phylogenetic assembly of AM fungi

scientific article published on 09 February 2022

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

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Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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Grassland diversity related to the Late Iron Age human population density

article published in 2007

Grassland diversity under changing productivity and the underlying mechanisms - results of a 10-yr experiment

Grouping and prioritization of vascular plant species for conservation: combining natural rarity and management need

article

Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time-delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

scientific article

Handbook of field sampling for multi-taxon biodiversity studies in European forests

scientific article published on 13 October 2021

Historical biome distribution and recent human disturbance shape the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article

How to publish a good journal in plant community ecology?

article

Human influence lowers plant genetic diversity in communities with extinction debt

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Indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem services: a synthesis across ecosystems and spatial scales

scholarly article by Christian K. Feld et al published December 2009 in Oikos

Indirect evidence for an extinction debt of grassland butterflies half century after habitat loss

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Integrating dark diversity and functional traits to enhance nature conservation of epiphytic lichens: a case study from Northern Italy

scientific article published in 2021

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

scientific article published on 21 January 2025

Introduced species shed friends as well as enemies ⬇️

article published in Nature in May 2024

Invasion of woody species into temperate grasslands: Relationship with abiotic and biotic soil resource heterogeneity

Invasion of woody species into temperate grasslands: Relationship with abiotic and biotic soil resource heterogeneity

article by Meelis Pärtel & Aveliina Helm published 2007 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Is Species Richness Dependent on the Neighbouring Stands? An Analysis of the Community Patterns in Mountain Grasslands of Central Argentina

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Journal development, vegetation survey and the restoration of invaded ecosystems

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Journal of Vegetation Sciencein 2015: journal growth, celebrations and awards

LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots

scientific article published on 30 January 2022

LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots

Landscape context and plant population size affect morph frequencies in heterostylous <i>Primula veris</i>—Results of a nationwide citizen‐science campaign

scientific article published on 9 September 2020

Landscape history of a calcareous (alvar) grassland in Hanila, western Estonia, during the last three hundred years

scientific article published in 1999

Landscape- and small-scale determinants of grassland species diversity: direct and indirect influences

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Large-scale dark diversity estimates: new perspectives with combined methods

scientific article

Legacy of archipelago history in modern island biodiversity – An agent‐based simulation model

scientific article published in 2020

Linking biodiversity to ecosystems: A task for plant community ecologists

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Local Plant Diversity Patterns and Evolutionary History at the Regional Scale

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Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Long-term investigations and experimental manipulations: Useful perspectives for applied vegetation studies

Macroecology of biodiversity: disentangling local and regional effects

scientific article

Macroecology of plant diversity across spatial scales

scientific article published on 19 January 2023

Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue

scientific article published on 07 March 2022

Mapping plant community ecology

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Measuring size and composition of species pools: a comparison of dark diversity estimates.

scientific article

Metabarcoding of soil environmental DNA to estimate plant diversity globally

scientific article published in 2023

Microbial island biogeography: isolation shapes the life history characteristics but not diversity of root-symbiotic fungal communities

scholarly article by John Davison et al published 8 June 2018 in The ISME Journal

Microfragmentation concept explains non-positive environmental heterogeneity-diversity relationships

scientific article

Monitoring of biological diversity: a common-ground approach

scientific article

Morphological variation in eight taxa of Anthyllis vulneraria s. lato (Fabaceae)

scientific article published on 2005

Novel insights into post-glacial vegetation change: functional and phylogenetic diversity in pollen records

scholarly article by Triin Reitalu et al published 4 May 2015 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Observed and dark diversity dynamics over millennial time scales: fast life-history traits linked to expansion lags of plants in northern Europe

scientific article published in 2023

Observed and dark diversity of alien plant species in Europe: estimating future invasion risk

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Organic farming, vegetation restoration and survey

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PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY MASKS RANGE‐WIDE GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION FOR VEGETATIVE BUT NOT REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN A SHORT‐LIVED PLANT

scientific article

Past and present effectiveness of protected areas for conservation of naturally and anthropogenically rare plant species

scientific article

Pattern without bias: local-regional richness relationship revisited

scientific article

Phylogenetic structure of local communities predicts the size of the regional species pool

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Phylogenetically poor plant communities receive more alien species, which more easily coexist with natives.

scientific article

Plant communities: their conservation assessment and surveys across continents and in the tropics

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Plant diversity but not productivity is associated with community mycorrhization in temperate grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Plant diversity in Oceanic archipelagos: realistic patterns emulated by an agent‐based computer simulation

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Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defences in native and introduced <i>Plantago lanceolata</i> populations

scientific article published in March 2024

Plant mycorrhizal status, but not type, shifts with latitude and elevation in Europe

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Plant species richness belowground: higher richness and new patterns revealed by next-generation sequencing

scientific article

Plant species richness: the world records

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Plants, fungi, and carabid beetles in temperate forests: both observed and dark diversity depend on habitat availability in space and time

scientific article published on 15 August 2024

Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Predicting species establishment using absent species and functional neighborhoods.

scientific article published on 4 March 2017

Predicting species' maximum dispersal distances from simple plant traits

scientific article published in February 2014

Progress in vegetation science: Trends over the past three decades and new horizons

Relationships between macro-fungal dark diversity and habitat parameters using LiDAR

scientific article

Relationships between species richness patterns in deciduous forests at the north Estonian limestone escarpment

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Response to Comment on "Global assessment of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus diversity reveals very low endemism".

scientific article

Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness".

scientific article published in December 2015

Restoration of species-rich limestone grassland communities from overgrown land: the importance of propagule availability

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Root Dynamics and Spatial Pattern in Prairie and Forest

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Root traits vary as much as leaf traits and have consistent phenotypic plasticity among 14 populations of a globally widespread herb

scientific article published on 7 February 2024

Silver Jubilee of the journal and complexity of global change

Slow response of plant species richness to habitat loss and fragmentation

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Small-scale dynamics and species richness in successional alvar plant communities

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Small-scale dynamics of plant communities in an experimentally polluted and fungicide-treated subarctic birch-pine forest

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Small-scale grassland assembly patterns differ above and below the soil surface

scientific article published in June 2012

Small-scale plant species richness in calcareous grasslands determined by the species pool, community age and shoot density

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Soil nitrogen and carbon heterogeneity in woodlands and grasslands: contrasts between temperate and tropical regions

scientific article published in 2007

SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Spatial models and plant traits for conservation and restoration

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Spatially-explicit estimation of geographical representation in large-scale species distribution datasets

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Species pools, community completeness and invasion: disentangling diversity effects on the establishment of native and alien species

scientific article published in December 2016

Species richness limitations in productive and oligotrophic plant communities

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Species richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: associations with grassland plant richness and biomass

scientific article

Structure and function of the soil microbiome underlying N2O emissions from global wetlands

scientific article published in 2022

Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Synthesis on the effectiveness of soil translocation for plant community restoration

scientific article published in 2023

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article

Temporal heterogeneity of soil moisture in grassland and forest

scientific article published in 2003

Temporal lags in observed and dark diversity in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

The Neolithic Plant Invasion Hypothesis: the role of preadaptation and disturbance in grassland invasion

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The Species Pool and Its Relation to Species Richness: Evidence from Estonian Plant Communities

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The biodiversity of birch stands in agricultural landscapes of Estonia is associated with past land use, restoration approach, site and landscape variables

scientific article published in 2022

The dynamics of species richness in an experimentally restored calcareous grassland

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The effect of stand age on biodiversity in a 130-year chronosequence of Populus tremula stands

scientific article

The effects of species pool, dispersal and competition on the diversity-productivity relationship

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The formation of species pools: historical habitat abundance affects current local diversity

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The functional assembly of experimental grasslands in relation to fertility and resource heterogeneity

article by Jodi N. Price et al published 11 November 2013 in Functional Ecology

The great escape: patterns of enemy release are not explained by time, space or climate

scientific article published in 2023

The local-regional species richness relationship: new perspectives on the null-hypothesis

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The multiscale feedback theory of biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

The nature of vegetation science

The productivity-diversity relationship: varying aims and approaches

scientific article

The reciprocal relationship between competition and intraspecific trait variation

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Threatened Alvar Grasslands in NW Russia and their Relationship to Alvars in Estonia

scholarly article by Sergey Znamenskiy et al published May 2006 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Threatened herbaceous species dependent on moderate forest disturbances: A neglected target for ecosystem-based silviculture

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Towards a Common Toolbox for Rarity: A Response to Violle et al.

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Trait assembly in grasslands depends on habitat history and spatial scale

scientific article

Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Traits related to species persistence and dispersal explain changes in plant communities subjected to habitat loss

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Transfer of scientific knowledge to practitioners: Do we need a reform of the journal policy?

Twentieth year of theJournal of Vegetation Science: the journal for all vegetation scientists

Using airborne lidar to characterize North European terrestrial high‐dark‐diversity habitats

scientific article published in 2022

Using functional dissimilarity among species pools and communities to predict establishment of native and alien species

scientific article

Vascular Plants Facilitated Bryophytes in a Grassland Experiment

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Vascular plant and bryophytes species representation in the protected areas network on the national scale

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Vegetation science during hectic times

scientific article published in 2021

What determines the relationship between plant diversity and habitat productivity?

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Which plant traits predict species loss in calcareous grasslands with extinction debt?

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Which randomizations detect convergence and divergence in trait-based community assembly? A test of commonly used null models

article published in 2016

Why does the unimodal species richness-productivity relationship not apply to woody species: a lack of clonality or a legacy of tropical evolutionary history?

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Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s

scientific article published on 5 August 2024

Widespread homogenization of plant communities in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 06 December 2021

Within-community environmental variability drives trait variability in species-rich grasslands

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

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