Our new paper, about the biodiversity-environmental heterogeneity relationships in karst landscapes by Zoltán Bátori has recently been published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
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The 44th report of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), entitled 'Regenerative Agriculture in Europe - A critical analysis of contributions to the European Union Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies' has recently been launched. The full report is available online in the EASAC homepage. We wrote an earlier blog post about the...
Our new paper about the ecosystem engineering effect of Lesser blind mole rats has recently been published in PeerJ.
Co-seeding of grasses and forbs supports restoration: our new paper in Scientific Reports
12/12/2022
Our new paper by Réka Kiss about our experiment testing priority effects in grassland restoration has recently been published in Scientific Reports.
Grazing and ecosystem services in drylands - synthesis by Maestre et al. published in Science
29/11/2022
The newest paper from the BIODESERT ERC project of Prof. Fernando Maestre has been published in Science. The paper gives an overview on the effects of grazing on the ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. The study is based on the implementation of a robust field protocol in dry rangelands of six continents and 26 countries. It was our...
Between 22-25 September, we organized an International Meeting for PhD students in Botany in Poroszló, Hungary. This meeting was first initiated by Milan Chytry and Zoltán Botta-Dukát about twenty years ago, and it has a very nice tradition since then. Every second year, PhD students in botany meet somewhere in Central Europe and they share their...
The research project of Orsolya Valkó was one of the ten funded Forefront projects by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in 2022. The research funding will enable us to carry out research about our beloved topic in the next five years and it offers a unique opportunity for strengthening our group.
The week in a nutshell: conferences on conservation biology, landscape ecology and archaeology
31/08/2022
After three years, it was a real pleasure to finally attend conferences in person and to meet with colleagues who we haven't met for a long time. The last part of August was especially intensive and exciting as we attended/will attend in total four conferences :) And now we are very much looking forward to the two forthcoming conferences in...
Early in this year we started emailing with researchers of the Samarkand State University, and we started to plan together a research project about the restoration possibilities of overgrazed and degraded sandy steppes and semi-deserts. After meeting in the virtual space the next step was even nicer: in July we spent ten days in Uzbekistan, visited...
Our research group takes part again in the 'Garden in the Cube' program series of the Centre for Ecological Research. In 23 July we present the beauties of seed ecology in the program called 'Urban legends - Interactive scientific adventures'. The core topic of this program is urbanisation, where the visitors can gain experiences on seed...