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A new null hypothesis for measuring the degree of plant community organization

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AM fungal communities inhabiting the roots of submerged aquatic plant Lobelia dortmanna are diverse and include a high proportion of novel taxa

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

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

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Alien plants associate with widespread generalist arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa: evidence from a continental-scale study using massively parallel 454 sequencing

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Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

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

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An experimental facility for free air humidity manipulation (FAHM) can alter water flux through deciduous tree canopy

Ancient environmental DNA reveals shifts in dominant mutualisms during the late Quaternary

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Anthropogenic disturbance equalizes diversity levels in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

scientific article published on 24 March 2018

Anthropogenic land use shapes the composition and phylogenetic structure of soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in forest plant roots are simultaneously shaped by host characteristics and canopy-mediated light availability

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in plant roots are not random assemblages

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks vary throughout the growing season and between successional stages

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associating with roots of Alnus and Rubus in Europe and the Middle East

scientific article published in 2016

Are invaders disturbance-limited? Conservation of mountain grasslands in Central Argentina

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Autogenic succession in boreal mires — A review

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Bacterial community structure and its relationship to soil physico-chemical characteristics in alder stands with different management histories

article by Jens-Konrad Preem et al published December 2012 in Ecological Engineering

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: It is time for dispersal experiments

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: It is time for dispersal experiments

Biological Flora of the British Isles:Dryopteris carthusiana,D. dilatataandD. expansa

scientific article published in 2012

Can arbuscular mycorrhiza change the effect of root competition between conspecific plants of different ages?

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Can long-distance dispersal shape the local and regional species pool?

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Change in pattern diversity during secondary succession in Estonian forests

article by K. Zobel et al published August 1993 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Changes in dispersal and light capturing traits explain post-abandonment community change in semi-natural grasslands

Changes in pine forest communities after clear-cutting: A comparison of two edaphic gradients

scientific article published on 1993

Changing conservation strategies in Europe: a framework integrating ecosystem services and dynamics

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Chapter 1. An Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Europe

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

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Clonal mobility and its implications for spatio-temporal patterns of plant communities: what do we need to know next?

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Communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi detected in forest soil are spatially heterogeneous but do not vary throughout the growing season

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

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Composition of root-colonizing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in different ecosystems around the globe

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Connecting the multiple dimensions of global soil fungal diversity

scientific article published in December 2023

Conservation of the Endemic Fern Lineage Diellia (Aspleniaceae) on the Hawaiian Islands: Can Population Structure Indicate Regional Dynamics and Endangering Factors?

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

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Co‐introduction of native mycorrhizal fungi and plant seeds accelerates restoration of post‐mining landscapes

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

DNA-based detection and identification of Glomeromycota: the virtual taxonomy of environmental sequences

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Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species

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

scientific article published on 03 August 2019

Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project

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Differences In Post-Emergence Growth Of Three Fern Species Could Help Explain Their Varying Local Abundance

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Different factors govern the performance of three closely related and ecologically similar Dryopteris species with contrastingly different abundance in a transplant experiment

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Differential effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities from ecosystems along management gradient on the growth of forest understorey plant species

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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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Disentangling the processes driving plant assemblages in mountain grasslands across spatial scales and environmental gradients

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Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

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Dispersal limitation may result in the unimodal productivity-diversity relationship: a new explanation for a general pattern

article by MEELIS PÄRTEL & Martin Zobel published January 2007 in Journal of Ecology

Dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants during succession

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Distribution patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plant species in Germany

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Divergent arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities colonize roots of Pulsatilla spp. in boreal Scots pine forest and grassland soils

article by Maarja Öpik et al published 17 November 2003 in New Phytologist

Diversity and dispersal — Can the link be approached experimentally?

article published in 2005

Do different competitive abilities of three fern species explain their different regional abundances?

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

scientific article published on 21 June 2011

Ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: concepts and a glossary

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Effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza on inter- and intraspecific competition of two grassland species

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Effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza on community composition and seedling recruitment in temperate forest understory

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Effects of land use on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in Estonia

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Effects of landscape structure and land-use intensity on similarity of plant and animal communities

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Eltonian niche width determines range expansion success in ectomycorrhizal conifers

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Environmental modulation of plant mycorrhizal traits in the global flora

scientific article published on 27 September 2023

Environmental relationships of vegetation patterns in saltmarshes of central Argentina

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Establishment of a cross-European field site network in the ALARM project for assessing large-scale changes in biodiversity

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Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation

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

scientific article published on August 2015

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

scientific article (publication date: 6 February 2014)

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

scientific article published on 29 September 2021

Forces that structure plant communities: quantifying the importance of the mycorrhizal symbiosis

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Formation and succession of alvar communities in the Baltic land uplift area

scientific article published in 1992

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

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

scientific article published in 2023

Global sampling of plant roots expands the described molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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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

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

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Hierarchical assembly rules in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities

scholarly article by John Davison et al published June 2016 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

High diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a boreal herb-rich coniferous forest

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High species richness in an Estonian wooded meadow

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

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How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Identifying and prioritising services in European terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems

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Impact of alien pines on local arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities-evidence from two continents

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Impact of management on biodiversity-biomass relations in Estonian flooded meadows

scientific article published in 2013

Increased sequencing depth does not increase captured diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Indicators for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: a pan-European study

scientific article published in 2007

Inter- and intrasporal nuclear ribosomal gene sequence variation within one isolate of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus, Diversispora sp

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Interspecific competition and arbuscular mycorrhiza: Importance for the coexistence of two calcareous grassland species

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Is Small-Scale Species Richness Limited by Seed Availability or Microsite Availability?

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

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LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots

scientific article published on 30 January 2022

LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots

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

scientific article published in 1999

Large-scale parallel 454 sequencing reveals host ecological group specificity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a boreonemoral forest.

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Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

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Macroecology of biodiversity: disentangling local and regional effects

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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

Misdiagnosis and uncritical use of plant mycorrhizal data are not the only elephants in the room

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Moisture conditions and the presence of bryophytes determine fescue species abundance in a dry calcareous grassland

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Monitoring of biological diversity: a common-ground approach

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Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination

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Mycorrhiza, vegetative mobility and responses to disturbance of alpine plants in the northwestern caucasus

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Mycorrhizal status helps explain invasion success of alien plant species

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Mycorrhizas in the Central European flora: relationships with plant life history traits and ecology

scientific article published in June 2013

Niche differentiation and expansion of plant species are associated with mycorrhizal symbiosis

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Non-random association patterns in a plant-mycorrhizal fungal network reveal host-symbiont specificity

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Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

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

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On the use of weather data in ecological studies along altitudinal and latitudinal gradients

article by Bente J. Graae et al published 24 October 2011 in Oikos

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

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Performance of two Centaurea species in response to different root-associated microbial communities and to alterations in nutrient availability

scientific article published on 2004

Plant Coexistence in the Interactive Environment: Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Should Not Be out of Mind

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Plant Species Coexistence: The Role of Historical, Evolutionary and Ecological Factors

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Plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) communities - which drives which?

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Plant community mycorrhization in temperate forests and grasslands: relations with edaphic properties and plant diversity

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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 a calcareous wooded meadow - The significance of management continuity

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Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on July 2015

Plant functional group composition and large-scale species richness in European agricultural landscapes

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Plant functional groups associate with distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

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

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Population stage structure of Hawaiian endemic fern taxa of Diellia (Aspleniaceae): implications for monitoring and regional dynamics

scientific article published in 2004

Predicting species' maximum dispersal distances from simple plant traits

scientific article published in February 2014

Prediction uncertainty of environmental change effects on temperate European biodiversity.

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Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services

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Response of bryophytes to afforestation, increase of air humidity, and enrichment of soil diaspore bank

scientific article published in 2019

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

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

scientific article published in Science

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

scientific article published in December 2015

Responses of a rare (Viola elatior) and a common (Viola mirabilis) congeneric species to different management conditions in grassland — is different light competition ability responsible for different abundances?

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Restoration Management of a Floodplain Meadow and Its Cost-Effectiveness — the Results of a 6-Year Experiment

scientific article published on October 2009

Restoration of flooded meadows in Estonia - vegetation changes and management indicators

scholarly article by Jaak-Albert Metsoja et al published 13 December 2011 in Applied Vegetation Science

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

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Restoration potential of the persistent soil seed bank in successional calcareous (alvar) grasslands in Estonia

scholarly article by Rein Kalamees et al published 23 November 2011 in Applied Vegetation Science

Root-colonizing and soil-borne communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a temperate forest understorey

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Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Secondary forest succession in Järvselja, southeastern Estonia: Changes in field layer vegetation

scientific article published on 1989

Secondary succession and summer herbivory in a subarctic grassland: community structure and diversity

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Secondary succession in alvar grasslands – do changes in vascular plant and cryptogam communities correspond?

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Securing the Conservation of Biodiversity across Administrative Levels and Spatial, Temporal, and Ecological Scales – Research Needs and Approaches of the SCALES Project

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Seed bank and its restoration potential in Estonian flooded meadows

Sequence variation in nuclear ribosomal small subunit, internal transcribed spacer and large subunit regions of Rhizophagus irregularis and Gigaspora margarita is high and isolate-dependent

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Significant effects of temperature on the reproductive output of the forest herb Anemone nemorosa L

scientific article published in 2010

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

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Small-scale turnover in a calcareous grassland, its pattern and components

Soil nutrient content influences the abundance of soil microbes but not plant biomass at the small-scale

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Soil seed bank and vegetation in mixed coniferous forest stands with different disturbance regimes

scientific article published in 2007

Soil seed bank composition in different successional stages of a species rich wooded meadow in Laelatu, western Estonia

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Spatial pattern and species richness of boreonemoral forest understorey and its determinants—A comparison of differently managed forests

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

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Species pool: the concept, its determination and significance for community restoration

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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

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Species richness, alien species and plant traits in Central Argentine mountain grasslands

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

scientific article published in 2022

Studying plant competition: from root biomass to general aims

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Symbiont dynamics during ecosystem succession: co-occurring plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

scientific article published on 8 May 2016

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

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Temperate forest understorey species performance is altered by local arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities from stands of different successional stages

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The Role of the Seed Bank in Gap Regeneration in a Calcareous Grassland Community

scientific article published in 2002

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

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The dynamics of species richness in an experimentally restored calcareous grassland

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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 joint effect of host plant genetic diversity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities on restoration success

scientific article published on 12 September 2021

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 online database MaarjAM reveals global and ecosystemic distribution patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota).

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The productivity-diversity relationship: varying aims and approaches

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The relative of species pools in determining plant species richness: an alternative explanation of species coexistence?

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The resilience of the forest field layer to anthropogenic disturbances depends on site productivity

The role of plant mycorrhizal type and status in modulating the relationship between plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities

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The seed bank in an estonian calcareous grassland: Comparison of different successional stages

The species pool concept as a framework for studying patterns of plant diversity

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

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Understory plant diversity is related to higher variability of vegetative mobility of coexisting species

scientific article published on 4 November 2008

Unravelling the effects of temperature, latitude and local environment on the reproduction of forest herbs

scientific article published in 2009

Vegetation patterns and their underlying processes: where are we now?

article by Aveliina Helm et al published 18 June 2014 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Vegetation structure and species coexistence

scientific article published in 1994

What determines the relationship between plant diversity and habitat productivity?

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What is the role of local landscape structure in the vegetation composition of field boundaries?

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Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

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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 do we need permanent plots in the study of long-term vegetation dynamics?

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Widely distributed native and alien plant species differ in arbuscular mycorrhizal associations and related functional trait interactions

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Widespread homogenization of plant communities in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 06 December 2021

Woody encroachment in grassland elicits complex changes in the functional structure of above‐ and belowground biota

scientific article published on 11 May 2021

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

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

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