Our global dark diversity study received the most public attention this past year among University of Tartu research! #DarkDivNet #darkdiversity

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.

Gracias al gran equipo de autores, a @macroecologyut.bsky.social como líderes de #DarkDivNet y, especialmente, a @cpcarmona.bsky.social na.bsky.social, que me unió a la red, y a Irene Guerrero, con quien formé un tándem de tan profesional como divertido. 11/11
macroecology.ut.ee/en/darkdivnet/

Excited 😀 that our contribution to the amazing #DarkDivNet led by @macroecologyut.bsky.social is now published @nature.com. The main discovery is that many species that we should find in nature are effectively missing because of human impacts. Read the paper for free: rdcu.be/eg3eA 🧵 1/3

#NoticiaIRBio 🌍Les activitats humanes condicionen la presència de les plantes autòctones en els seus hàbitats naturals, incrementant la diversitat fosca.🌿
Resultats del projecte #DarkDivNet amb participació investigadors #IRBioUB @geovegub.bsky.social

Super happy to be coauthor of this prestigious paper from #darkdivnet under the lead of Meelis Partel! Huge congrats to all coauthors.

There's something sus about DarkDivNet as well. The Estonia-based project claims that they received their data in 2024 but a bunch of paragraphs later say surveys were conducted between 2019-2023. There's no mention of when this project was formally founded.

(The page title really is broken btw)

Oft fehlen in der Natur Pflanzen, die aufgrund der ökologischen Gegebenheiten dort eigentlich vorkommen müssten. Hoch ist die „Dark Diversity“ in stark anthropogen beeinflussten Regionen. Das zeigt die @nature.com Studie, mit Beteiligung #UFZ @idiv-research.bsky.social
www.ufz.de/index.php?de...

#DarkDivNet data is just 🤯🤯!!

And many congrats to Meelis and the DarkDivNet core group for leading this! It was a pleasure to be one of the sampling groups.

The first paper from #darkdivnet is out now! Huge thank you to all our >200 co-authors who helped to reveal dark diversity in different parts of the world! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new paper on the effect of human footprint on local plant diversity came out in @natureportfolio.nature.com today. The study was led by Meelis Pärtel and the amazing DarkDivNet Team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ecology #biodiversity #conservation #nature #science

🌿 The first article of our DarkDivNet consortium, led by Meelis Pärtel, has been published in Nature. Our dataset from 5500 sites in 119 world regions, collected specially for this purpose, shows that plant diversity is negatively affected not only by direct human impact such as local disturbance.

Proud to be a coauthor on this paper and to work with the global DarkDivNet network, coordinated right here in Tartu. We hope many more papers will come from it.

#Biodiversity #DarkDiversity #Nature #Tartu

This work demonstrates the relationships between natural vegetation and anthropogenic activity/influence in different regions around the world.

Thanks to DarkDivNet - Macroecology workgroup and all contributors.
macroecology.ut.ee/en/darkdivnet/
@uclm.es @uclmdivulga.bsky.social #ETSIAMB

New global study of dark diversity by #DarkDivNet led by Meelis Pärtel, where Aleš, Maruška, and Eva are co-authors with the dataset from Novohradské Hory, is now out in
@nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...