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A new aspect of grassland vegetation dynamics: cyanobacterium colonies affect establishment success of plants

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A species-level comparison of occurrence patterns in carabids along an urbanisation gradient

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Accumulation of Metals in Juvenile Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Exposed to Sublethal Levels of Iron and Manganese: Survival, Body Weight and Tissue

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Air pollution assessment based on elemental concentration of leaves tissue and foliage dust along an urbanization gradient in Vienna.

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Algal assemblage types of bog-lakes in Hungary and their relation to water chemistry, hydrological conditions and habitat diversity

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Analysis of mammal mesopredator scat samples indicates significant predation on the endangered Hungarian meadow viper (<i>Vipera ursinii rakosiensis</i>)

scientific article published in 2022

Application of water framework directive in Hungary: development of biological classification systems

scientific article published in January 2008

Aquatic macrophytes as bioindicators of water chemistry in nutrient rich backwaters along the Upper-Tisza river (in Hungary)

Assessment of contamination based on trace element concentrations in Gomphus flavipes (Odonata: Insect) larvae of the Upper Tisza Region.

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Assessment of the effects of urbanization on trace elements of toe bones.

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Biodiversity differences between managed and unmanaged forests: meta-analysis of species richness in Europe.

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Body size inequality of carabids along an urbanisation gradient

article by Tibor Magura et al published September 2006 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Both facilitation and limiting similarity shape the species coexistence in dry alkali grasslands

article by András Kelemen et al published March 2015 in Ecological Complexity

Both local and landscape-level factors are important drivers in shaping ground-dwelling spider assemblages of sandy grasslands

Both mass ratio effects and community diversity drive biomass production in a grassland experiment

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

BugTracker: Software for Tracking and Measuring Arthropod Activity

scientific article published on 10 July 2023

Carabids (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in a forest patchwork: a connectivity analysis of the Bereg Plain landscape graph

scholarly article by Ferenc Jordán published in September 2007

Changes in Morphometric Traits of Ground Beetles Along Urbanization Gradients

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Changes of isopod assemblages along an urban–suburban–rural gradient in Hungary

Characteristics of the pelagic phytoplankton in shallow oxbows

scholarly article by Enikő Krasznai et al published 13 December 2009 in Hydrobiologia

Combined eco-morphological functional groups are reliable indicators of colonisation processes of benthic diatom assemblages in a lowland stream

scientific article published in 2016

Commentary: Statistical aspects of environmental risk assessment of GM plants for effects on non-target organisms

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Community Response of Cladocera to Trophic Stress by Biomanipulation in a Shallow Oxbow Lake

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Comparison of different methods for diversity ordering

Comparison of species-rich cover crop mixtures in the Tokaj wine region (Hungary)

scholarly article published 15 February 2016

Compromises in data selection in a meta-analysis of biodiversity in managed and unmanaged forests: response to Halme et al.

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Conversion from environmental filtering to randomness as assembly rule of ground beetle assemblages along an urbanization gradient

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation – plant introduction and practical restoration on ancient burial mounds

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Cultural monuments and nature conservation: a review of the role of kurgans in the conservation and restoration of steppe vegetation

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Dehydrogenase Activity in a Litter Manipulation Experiment in Temperate Forest Soil

Density-Dependent Plant-Plant Interactions Triggered by Grazing

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Distribution of millipedes (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) along a forest interior - forest edge - grassland habitat complex

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Distribution of toxic elements between biotic and abiotic components of terrestrial ecosystem along an urbanization gradient: Soil, leaf litter and ground beetles

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Diversity and composition of carabids during a forestry cycle

article by Tibor Magura et al published 2003 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Do large-seeded herbs have a small range size? The seed mass-distribution range trade-off hypothesis

scientific article published on 19 November 2017

Does disturbance enhance the competitive effect of the invasive Solidago canadensis on the performance of two native grasses?

Does urbanization decrease diversity in ground beetle (Carabidae) assemblages?

scientific article published in 2009

Early vegetation development after grassland restoration by sowing low-diversity seed mixtures in former sunflower and cereal fields

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Ecological background of diatom functional groups: Comparability of classification systems

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Ecological diatom guilds are useful but not sensitive enough as indicators of extremely changing water regimes

Ecosystem engineering by foxes is mediated by the landscape context-A case study from steppic burial mounds

scientific article published on 22 June 2018

Edge responses are different in edges under natural versus anthropogenic influence: a meta-analysis using ground beetles.

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Effects of Anthropogenic Activities on the Elemental Concentration in Surface Sediment of Oxbows

Effects of Land Use and Wildfires on the Habitat Selection of Great Bustard (Otis tardal.)-Implications for Species Conservation

scholarly article by Zsolt Végvári et al published 24 February 2016 in Land Degradation and Development

Effects of habitat fragmentation on carabids in forest patches

Effects of litter on seedling establishment: an indoor experiment with short-lived Brassicaceae species

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Effects of urbanization on ground-dwelling spiders in forest patches, in Hungary

scientific article published in 2010

Elemental analysis of pitfall-trapped insect samples: effects of ethylene glycol grades

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Elemental concentration in mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor L.) during metamorphosis

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Elemental concentrations in deposited dust on leaves along an urbanization gradient.

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Environmental factors driving seed bank diversity in alkali grasslands

Environmentally friendly assessment of ecological quality of watercourses based on banded demoiselle, <i>Calopteryx splendens</i>

scientific article published in 2024

Establishment of three cover crop mixtures in vineyards

Exploring river pollution based on sediment analysis in the Upper Tisza region (Hungary).

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Factors threatening grassland specialist plants - A multi-proxy study on the vegetation of isolated grasslands

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Fast restoration of grassland vegetation by a combination of seed mixture sowing and low-diversity hay transfer

scientific article published in 2012

Filling up the gaps—Passive restoration does work on linear landscape elements

scientific article published in 2017

Forest edge and diversity: carabids along forest-grassland transects

Functional diversity supports the biomass-diversity humped-back relationship in phytoplankton assemblages

scholarly article by Péter Török et al published 16 January 2016 in Functional Ecology

Functional groups of phytoplankton shaping diversity of shallow lake ecosystems

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Functional properties of planktic microalgae determine their habitat selection

scientific article published on 3 January 2024

Functional redundancy modifies species-area relationship for freshwater phytoplankton.

scientific article published on 20 October 2017

Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species‐specific

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Graph theory in action: evaluating planned highway tracks based on connectivity measures

scientific article published in 2009

Grassland restoration on former croplands in Europe: an assessment of applicability of techniques and costs

Grassland restoration to conserve landscape-level biodiversity: a synthesis of early results from a large-scale project

Grassland seed bank and community resilience in a changing climate

scientific article published in 2018

Ground beetles (Carabidae) and edge effect in oak-hornbeam forest and grassland transects

Habitat monitoring in Europe: a description of current practices

article published in 2008

Halophilic diatom taxa are sensitive indicators of even short term changes in lowland lotic systems

scientific article published in 2015

Ignoring ecological demands masks the real effect of urbanization: a case study of ground-dwelling spiders along a rural–urban gradient in a lowland forest in Hungary

article by Roland Horváth et al published 18 September 2012 in Ecological Research

Impact of management on vegetation dynamics and seed bank formation of inland dune grassland in Hungary

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Impacts of Leaf-litter Addition on Carabids in a Conifer Plantation

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Impacts of non-native spruce reforestation on ground beetles

Importance of acidic phosphatase activity in P supply and Gonyostomum semen Ehrenbergh (Raphidophyta) occurrence in a Hungarian peat bog, Keleméri Kis-Mohos (Ne Hungary).

scientific article published in March 2010

Improved land cover mapping using aerial photographs and satellite images

scientific article published in 2014

In stable, unmanaged grasslands local factors are more important than landscape-level factors in shaping spider assemblages

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Influence of Flooding and Vegetation Patterns on Aquatic Beetle Diversity in a Constructed Wetland Complex

Influence of flooding and vegetation patterns on aquatic beetle diversity in a constructed wetland complex

Influence of past industry and urbanization on elemental concentrations in deposited dust and tree leaf tissue

scholarly article by Edina Simon et al published December 2016 in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Intensity‐dependent effects of cattle and sheep grazing in sand grasslands — Does livestock type really matter?

scientific article published in 2023

Is regular mowing the most appropriate and cost-effective management maintaining diversity and biomass of target forbs in mountain hay meadows?

scientific article published in 2012

Laboratory and microcosm experiments testing the toxicity of chlorinated hydrocarbons on a cyanobacterium strain (Synechococcus PCC 6301) and on natural phytoplankton assemblages

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Land use history of a floodplain area during the last 200 years in the Upper-Tisza region (Hungary)

Landscape and habitat filters jointly drive richness and abundance of specialist plants in terrestrial habitat islands

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Landscape and local effects on multiparasitoid coexistence

Landscape and local variables benefit rare species and common ones differently

Landscape-scale terrestrial factors are also vital in shaping Odonata assemblages of watercourses

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Large and least isolated fragments preserve habitat specialist spiders best in dry sandy grasslands in Hungary

article by Roland Horváth et al published 30 January 2013 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Linkage disequilibrium in Hungarian populations of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published in January 1994

Litter removal does not compensate detrimental fire effects on biodiversity in regularly burned semi-natural grasslands

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Livestock Type is More Crucial Than Grazing Intensity: Traditional Cattle and Sheep Grazing in Short-Grass Steppes

Lucerne-dominated fields recover native grass diversity without intensive management actions

scientific article published in 2010

Macrophyte diversity of lakes in the Pannon Ecoregion (Hungary)

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Managing for species composition or diversity? Pastoral and free grazing systems in alkali steppes

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Mapping an ecological network of green habitat patches and their role in maintaining urban biodiversity in and around Debrecen city (Eastern Hungary)

Measures of morphological complexity of microalgae and their linkage with organism size

scientific article published on 11 September 2023

Measures of sociality: two different views of group size

Measuring the Short-term Success of Grassland Restoration: The Use of Habitat Affinity Indices in Ecological Restoration

article published in 2010

Mechanisms shaping plant biomass and species richness: plant strategies and litter effect in alkali and loess grasslands

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Micro-topographic heterogeneity increases plant diversity in old stages of restored grasslands

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Micropaleontological observations on a Sphagnum bog in East Carpathian region – testate amoebae (Rhizopoda: Testacea) and their potential use for reconstruction of micro- and macroclimatic changes

Millipede (Diplopoda) assemblages alter drastically by urbanisation

Nature Conservation – a new dimension in Open Access publishing bridging science and application

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New aspects of grassland recovery in old-fields revealed by trait-based analyses of perennial-crop-mediated succession

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New thousand-seed weight records of the Pannonian flora and their application in analysing social behaviour types

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Non-destructive Method of Frog (Rana esculenta L.) Skeleton Elemental Analysis Used During Environmental Assessment

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Nonlinear height–diameter models for three woody, understory species in a temperate oak forest in Hungary

article by Tamás Misik et al published November 2016 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Phytoextraction with Salix viminalis in a moderately to strongly contaminated area

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Pollution Assessment Based on Element Concentration of Tree Leaves and Topsoil in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

Pollution intensity-dependent metal accumulation in ground beetles: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 07 September 2019

Predation on rose galls: parasitoids and predators determine gall size through directional selection

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Properties of crowding indices and statistical tools to analyze parasite crowding data.

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Rarity of microalgae in macro, meso, and microhabitats

scientific article published in 2023

Reconstructing hydrological variability from testate amoebae analysis in Carpathian peatlands

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Recovery of ground-dwelling assemblages during reforestation with native oak depends on the mobility and feeding habits of the species

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Recovery of native grass biodiversity by sowing on former croplands: Is weed suppression a feasible goal for grassland restoration?

Reed cut, habitat diversity and productivity in wetlands

scientific article published in 2015

Remediation potential of early successional pioneer species Chenopodium album and Tripleurospermum inodorum

scientific article published in 2019

Resource dependence in a new ecosystem: A host plant and its colonizing community

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Responses of carabid beetles to urbanization in Transylvania (Romania)

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Restoration Potential in Seed Banks of Acidic Fen and Dry-Mesophilous Meadows: Can Restoration Be Based on Local Seed Banks?

scientific article published in 2010

Restoring grassland biodiversity: Sowing low-diversity seed mixtures can lead to rapid favourable changes

scholarly article by Péter Török et al published March 2010 in Biological Conservation

Review: Prospects and limitations of prescribed burning as a management tool in European grasslands

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Rove beetles respond heterogeneously to urbanization

Secondary succession in sandy old-fields: a promising example of spontaneous grassland recovery

Shift of rove beetle assemblages in reforestations: Does nativity matter?

Soil enzyme activity in response to long-term organic matter manipulation

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Soil extracellular enzyme activities are sensitive indicators of detrital inputs and carbon availability

scholarly article by Zsuzsa Veres et al published August 2015 in Applied Soil Ecology

Spiders are not less diverse in small and isolated grasslands, but less diverse in overgrazed grasslands: A field study (East Hungary, Nyírség)

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Succession in soil seed banks and its implications for restoration of calcareous sand grasslands

scientific article published in 2017

Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands - A multi-taxa approach.

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Sustaining recovered grasslands is not likely without proper management: vegetation changes after cessation of mowing

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

The Effect of Urbanization on Trace Element Concentration and Symmetry of Woodlice (Armadillidium vulgare Latreille, 1804)

scientific article published on 28 July 2018

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

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The effect of a fireworks event on the amount and elemental concentration of deposited dust collected in the city of Debrecen, Hungary

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

The effects of ethylene glycol and ethanol on the body mass and elemental composition of insects collected with pitfall traps

scientific article published on 4 October 2009

The enemy hypothesis: correlates of gall morphology with parasitoid attack rates in two closely related rose cynipid galls

scientific article published on 7 December 2012

The influence of matrix and edges on species richness patterns of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in habitat islands

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The invasion of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) in sandy old-fields - is it a threat to the native flora?

The present and future of grassland restoration

scientific article published on 16 March 2021

The role of phytoplankton diversity metrics in shallow lake and river quality assessment

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The role of seed bank in the dynamics of understorey in an oak forest in Hungary

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The simpler the better: When decreasing landscape complexity increases community stability

scientific article published in 2018

Time-consistent rearrangement of carabid beetle assemblages by an urbanisation gradient in Hungary

scientific article published in 2008

Trace element concentrations in soils along urbanization gradients in the city of Wien, Austria

scientific article published on 29 July 2012

Traditional cattle grazing in a mosaic alkali landscape: effects on grassland biodiversity along a moisture gradient

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Underground deserts below fertility islands? Woody species desiccate lower soil layers in sandy drylands

scientific article published in 2020

Understory Development in an Oak Forest in Northern -Hungary: the Subcanopy Layer

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Use of Leaves as Bioindicator to Assess Air Pollution Based on Composite Proxy Measure (APTI), Dust Amount and Elemental Concentration of Metals

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Use of desmids to assess the natural conservation value of a Hungarian oxbow (Malom-Tisza, NE-Hungary)

article by Enikő Krasznai et al published 1 January 2008 in Biologia

Vegetation science in Hungary

Vegetation type and grazing intensity jointly shape grazing effects on grassland biodiversity

scientific article published in 2018

Zoochory on and off: A field experiment for trait‐based analysis of establishment success of grassland species

scientific article published on 22 June 2021