Macroecology UT
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Macroecology workgroup at the University of Tartu: Meelis Pärtel, Carlos Carmona and others #Macroecology of #biodiversity #darkdiversity #DarkDivNet #TraitDivNet https://macroecology.ut.ee/en/
Swedish lakes help solve Darwin’s 160-year puzzle about invasive species - The Brighter Side of News share.google/In65aEQVfh1T...
Swedish lakes help solve Darwin’s 160-year puzzle about invasive species
Swedish lake data show dark diversity can predict when closely related or distant invasive fish are more likely to establish.
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What helps non-native species establish in new environments? A new PNAS study co-authored by FISC researcher Shuya Fan explores how dark diversity can help explain invasion success. Read more on the FISC website: www.forestinvasion.cz/news/dark-di...
Dark diversity offers new insight into invasion success
A new collaborative study involving FISC postdoctoral researcher Shuya Fan shows how dark diversity can help explain invasion success. The research offers a new perspective on Darwin’s naturalization…
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A 340-year record from Swedish lakes points to a solution to Darwin’s naturalization conundrum: establishment success tracked dark diversity, not simply how many species were already present. doi.org/hb7x2s
Dark biodiversity helps solve Darwin's 160-year-old puzzle
An international research team, which included University of Tartu visiting doctoral student Wen-Gang Zhang and Professor of Botany Meelis Pärtel, has found a new solution to one of ecology's long-standing controversies—Darwin's naturalization conundrum, which addresses the question of why some species successfully establish in a new habitat while others do not.
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Urban biodiversity matters for human health! Our new study shows that children living closer to biodiverse urban green spaces had lower allergy risk. One soil bacterial group stood out especially strongly and was promoted by plant diversity and proximity to urban forests. doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...
Trait‐Dependent Time Lags Amid Global Change in Marine Observed and Dark Diversity on the Dogger Bank (North Sea) 🔗 buff.ly/hV6wKAb
🌳Species pool size drives annual forest productivity, while community completeness best predicts multi-year gains. Dark diversity's effect is indirect, mediated by observed diversity & structure. Integrating regional species pools is key to understanding BEF relationships 👉️ buff.ly/V9Hoy3D
Just published! Using suitability estimates from observed and dark diversity - set of suitable but absent species - we show that despite no net change in species number, species respond with delays, with distinct trait profiles linked to extinction debt and immigration credit. shorturl.at/wYzF5
Trait‐Dependent Time Lags Amid Global Change in Marine Observed and Dark Diversity on the Dogger Bank (North Sea)
Marine ecosystems can appear stable despite facing delayed changes. Using a probabilistic species pool approach, we estimated the suitability of species in observed and dark diversity—set of suitable...
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Dark diversity refers to all the species of plants that should be in a certain spot but are missing. You can think of it as Nature's secret plant list. But how do we know what should be on this list? Find out in this adapted article: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/wha...
From Nature to the classroom! Key findings from our paper on global dark diversity are now adapted for students via Science Journal for Kids and Teens — a nice example of knowledge transfer. #DarkDivNet #darkdiversity www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/whats-on-natures-secret-plant-list/
What's on Nature's secret plant list? - Science Journal for Kids and Teens
Scientists studied thousands of sites worldwide to discover that natural areas are missing many plant species that could live there, a hidden loss they call dark diversity.
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Our global dark diversity study received the most public attention this past year among University of Tartu research! #DarkDivNet #darkdiversity
Study on the impact of human activity on biodiversity received the most public attention this past year among University of Tartu research
In 2025, the study that drew the most attention in public digital channels was led by Professor of Botany Meelis Pärtel and confirms the negative effect of human activity on wildlife biodiversity.
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Observed and Dark Diversity of Alien Plants Across the World #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Observed and Dark Diversity of Alien Plants Across the World
Aim Biological invasions are one of the major threats to ecosystems worldwide and are expected to increase further in the future. Prevention and swift responses are crucial to mitigate this threat. .....
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We had our traditional workgroup autumn seminar in a beautiful countryside hotel in central Estonia. With the help of our guest speaker @aveliina.bsky.social we discussed the topic 'Macroecology in the Anthropocene'. macroecology.ut.ee/en/macroecol...
Happy to welcome three visitors this autumn! Elisa Jordan is a MSc student from Germany. Wengang Zhang is a PhD student from China working on #darkdiversity of #alienspecies. Gerard Martínez Devesa is a PhD student from Spain working on #darkdiversity of #arthropods in deadwood microhabitats.
Although many ecosystems can weather several years of moderate drought, consecutive years of extreme dryness push them past a tipping point, resulting in dramatic declines in plant growth, researchers report in Science. https://scim.ag/4ogN9I8
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
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📢 68th #IAVS Symposium: Understanding #Ecosystems through #Vegetation | 22-26 June 2026, Spain Join us to explore how vegetation shapes #biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide! 📅 Call for Special Session proposals is now open: 15 Oct – 15 Nov 2025 👉 Details: gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org #IAVS2026
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DroughtNet@droughtnet.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Working with individual trait data and functional trait spaces and bored about means? With @cpcarmona.bsky.social, Agnese Bissi and @etordoni.bsky.social, we put together a perspective to test the effect of individual observations on trait space properties 👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces
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After six years, Aleš, Eva, and @mariekonecna.bsky.social resampled their #DarkDivNet core plots in Novohradské hory. Relevés in pairs of mesic meadows, beech forests, and waterlogged spruce forests were done.
For sauropsids lovers: Two fresh papers map trait spaces of birds, turtles and crocodiles to reveal what disappears when species go extinct www.nature.com/articles/s41... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🌐🪶 🧮➕📏 #trait, #traits, #FunctionalTraits
Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...
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Even remote forests aren’t safe. New research shows human activity reduces biodiversity far beyond city limits. #BiodiversityLoss #DarkDiversity #ConservationScience
Invisible Loss: How Cities Empty Forests Afar
Even protected forests may be losing biodiversity due to human activity far away. A global study reveals the hidden erosion of nature’s potential.
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Quote: "The problem is that over time, as we lose species due to human impact, we don’t see the number of species that are lost because we only see what we can perceive." www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202... #darkdiversity
Uncovering ‘silent’ species losses key for conservation efforts: study
According to a recent study, accounting for dark diversity — the species that could be in a particular area but aren’t — could be the best way to identify and restore “silent losses” in plant diversit...
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Excited to share our new open-access review led by Francesco de Bello in Ecological Monographs! With a fantastic international team, we identify key challenges (“Raunkiæran shortfalls”) in trait-based ecology. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FunctionalTraits 🌐
Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology
Trait-based ecology, a prominent research field identifying traits linked to the distribution and interactions of organisms and their impact on ecosystem functioning, has flourished in the last three...
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Norwegian Research Contributes to Global 'Dark Diversity' Study, Offering New Insights into Biodiversity Loss
Norwegian Research Contributes to Global 'Dark Diversity' Study, Offering New Insights into Biodiversity Loss
Photo credit: Robert Lewis, NINA Behind the study is a global research network of more than 200 researchers, called DarkDivNet, coordinated by the University of Tartu in Estonia, and advised by an i...
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Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity across the Mediterranean Sea * A new paper in Biol Cons by Tal Gavriel, Jonathan Belmaker and others www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April issue: Perspective led by Mari Moora describing how plant reliance on their mycorrhizal symbionts varies across ecological scales 🧪🌎 Web link: go.nature.com/4h1Rpre Readcube: rdcu.be/eh0uC
Norwegian Research Contributes to Global 'Dark Diversity' Study
Norwegian Research Contributes to Global 'Dark Diversity' Study, Offering New Insights into Biodiversity Loss
Photo credit: Robert Lewis, NINA Behind the study is a global research network of more than 200 researchers, called DarkDivNet, coordinated by the University of Tartu in Estonia, and advised by an i...
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New study in @nature.com: we focus on the diversity that's missing - “dark diversity.” Human impact means only 1 in 5 species persist in disturbed areas versus 1 in 3 in pristine ones. My summary of the project & its implications: the3dlab.org/2025/04/03/g...
Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by ‘dark diversity’
Back in 2019, we ventured into the field with a rather unusual mission: to search for the biodiversity that wasn’t there. At first glance, this might seem counterintuitive – after all, we’re …
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The Invisible Biodiversity Crisis
The Invisible Biodiversity Crisis: Global Study Reveals
Brno and Průhonice, 10. 04. 2025 – According to a new study by a team of more than 200 botanists from around the world, published in the prestigious journal Nature, the vegetation of natural areas is ...
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