Martin Zobel


Martin Zobel is an Estonian plant ecologist 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 scientific journal Ecography.

Selected scientific works

His father was architecture historian Rein Zobel and his brother is biologist Kristjan Zobel.