University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden

Recent papers from University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden

1. How to name dark fungal taxa outside the Code: The International Standard to Catalogue Dark Fungal Taxa (ISCDFT)2026
2. Benchmarking Full‐Length ITS Metabarcoding Across Illumina 2 × 500, PacBio , and Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Using Mock and Soil CommunitiesMolecular Ecology Resources · 2026
3. Colonization of empty shells by cryptic fauna: a global event and important ecological innovation in Ordovician benthic ecosystemsScientific Reports · 2026
4. Diaspore bank and dark diversity of bryophytes: Insights into fen vegetation and restoration potentialEcological Solutions and Evidence · 2026
5. Global dataset of soil eukaryotic communities created with a uniform protocol and long read sequencingScientific Data · 2026
6. Fungal biomass and guild dominance jointly govern soil organic carbon pools in alpine treeline ecosystemsGeoderma · 2026
7. The Orbitoscope, a six-axis macro-imaging robot for photogrammetric 3D-digitization of insects and other small specimensZooKeys · 2026
8. A faunistic revision of Fulgoromorpha and Cicadomorpha (Insecta, Hemiptera) of LithuaniaZooKeys · 2026
9. Assessing the specificity of bacterial-fungal interactions for biocontrol strategiesJournal of Applied Microbiology · 2026
10. Pathogen diversity cannot explain variation in fate and behaviour of trout across a latitudinal gradientProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2026
11. Multiple full‐length variants of the mitochondrial COI DNA barcode region are prevalent in north European sawfliesSystematic Entomology · 2026
12. Well-preserved Rothpletzella microencruster on a brachiopod shell from the Upper Ordovician of EstoniaJournal of Paleontology · 2026
13. Synthesised database of wild bee and hoverfly records in EuropeScientific Data · 2026
14. A molecular assessment of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities associated with North African Alnus glutinosa forestsMycoKeys · 2026
15. Taxonomic investigation of Abrothallus (Abrothallales, Ascomycota) species associated with lichen genera Ramalina and Bryoria , including the description of a new speciesNordic Journal of Botany · 2026
16. The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)—version 2025Zootaxa · 2025
17. Biogeography and host associations of Russula subsection Xerampelinae based on large‐scale analysis of UNITE sequence dataNew Phytologist · 2025
18. Grassland Restoration Drives Strong Multitrophic Biodiversity Recovery, but Climate Extremes Jeopardize Drought‐Sensitive SpeciesGlobal Change Biology · 2025
19. No evidence of decline in bumblebee abundance and species richness from edge to interior in moderately-sized red clover fieldsLandscape Ecology · 2025
20. Distribution and Frequency of Estonian Lichens – Revisited After 25 YearsActa Botanica Hungarica · 2025