Martin Zobel (born 25 February 1957 in

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and professor at the University of Tartu. His name is particularly associated with the idea of an impact of regional species diversity on diversity at smaller spatial scales – known as the species pool effect. He has been professor since 1992. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the

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. Zobel has appeared several times on Clarivate's annual lists of influential scientists every year from 2017 to 2021.

Selected scientific works

*Zobel, M. (1984) Экология и динамика прибрежных альварных растительных сообществ Эстонской ССР (Ecology and dynamics of coastal alvar plant communities in Estonia). Biol.Kand. thesis, University of Tartu. *Zobel, M. (1997) The relative role of species pools in determining plant species richness: an alternative explanation of species coexistence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 12: 266–269. *Zobel, M., Otsus, M., Liira, J., Moora, M. & Möls, T. (2000) Is small-scale species richness limited by seed availability or microsite availability?

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81: 3274–3282.

Personal life

His father was architecture historian Rein Zobel and his brother is biologist Kristjan Zobel. He is married to community ecology professor Mari Moora.

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