Martin Zobel

TL;DR: A Abandoned semi-natural grassland sites in northern Estonia still contain a relatively large grassland community species pool, including a large and effective soil seed bank, which could play a more important role in the restoration management of abandoned dry grassland communities than could be concluded from previous studies.

TL;DR: The Community Completeness Index is a valuable metric for comparing biodiversity of different ecosystems for nature conservation and can be used to measure the success of ecological restoration and vulnerability to invasion by alien species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the soil seed bank in mesophyte mixed spruce forest in Koeru, central Estonia, represented by three old stands with low intensity management, and three young regenerating planted stands in areas clear-cut 20-25 years ago.

TL;DR: The SCALES project as mentioned in this paper analyzes how selected pressures (climate change, habitat loss, fragmentation, disturbance), their drivers, and their impacts on biodiversity change with spatial and temporal scale and develops methods for a better understanding of scaling properties of biological processes from the genet ic level to populations, communities, and ecosystem functions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a deficit of variance in richness need not be interpreted as resulting from niche limitation, but could result from limited dispersal and estab- lishment followed by localized spread that causes quadrats to have less compositional overlap than might be expected if species were distributed at random.