A5050246502- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem
2018-2024
Centre for Ecological Research
2022-2024
Institute of Ecology and Botany
2022-2024
Pollinators are declining rapidly, largely due to land conversion and intensification of agriculture. To mitigate their crisis, low-disturbance habitats, such as sown wildflower plantings, could promote pollinators by restoration resources. However, comprehensive knowledge is lacking on how landscape context, spatial configuration age seasonality flower composition affect pollinator communities, especially from East-Central Europe. understand these effects, we established diverse native...
Abstract Mass-flowering crop monocultures, like sunflower, cannot harbour a permanent pollinator community. Their pollination is best secured if both managed honey bees and wild pollinators are present in the agricultural landscape. Semi-natural habitats known to be main foraging nesting areas of pollinators, thus benefiting their populations, whereas crops flowering simultaneously may competitively dilute densities. In our study we asked how landscape structure affects major groups’...
Abstract Commercially reared cavity‐nesting bees have been studied mainly in large, intensively managed orchards. However, knowledge on wild bee and wasp communities their potential limitations smaller orchards remain insufficient. We compared the colonization rate of trapnests, nesting success, parasitism response to flower resources wasps between apple nearby semi‐natural habitats (SNHs). Trapnests were placed neighbouring SNHs. Colonization dynamics herbaceous estimated. Furthermore, nest...
ABSTRACT Biodiversity declines in an unprecedented way, mostly due to land use change. Restoration interventions proved be one of the most effective tools halt decline, especially ecosystems such as agricultural fields. Evidence-based, locally adapted recommendations on grassland restoration, however, are often missing, so we present a novel approach for that can implemented anywhere and based scientific rigor. In recently started long-term field ecological study, established 0.5 ha...
ABSTRACT Semi‐natural grasslands and their biodiversity decline rapidly, although they are key elements of agricultural landscapes. Therefore, there is a need for the re‐establishment semi‐natural in intensively managed farmlands (e.g., via sowing wildflower seeds). Our knowledge, however, limited on how different arthropod groups may respond to such newly established fields. This knowledge gap especially relevant Pannonian biogeographical region, more generally Central Europe, where little...
A megporzás az agrártermelés szempontjából is fontos ökoszisztéma szolgáltatás, hiszen közvetlen hatással lehet a termés mennyiségére és minőségére. Ugyanakkor agrártáj szerkezete, természetközeli élőhelyfoltok (semi-natural habitat, SNH) mennyisége eloszlása jelentősen befolyásolhatja ott élő megporzó együttesek szerkezetét, összetételét. Jelen vizsgálat célja volt, hogy megvizsgáljuk, napraforgó táblák szomszédságában található SNH-k megléte, illetve szerkezeti összetétele (fás vagy lágy...
Pollinators are declining rapidly, largely due to land conversion and intensification of agriculture. To mitigate their crisis, low-disturbance habitats, such as wildflower plantings, could promote pollinators by restoration resources. However, comprehensive knowledge is lacking on how landscape context, spatial configuration, planting’s age, seasonality flower composition affect pollinator communities, especially from East-Central Europe.To understand these effects, we established diverse...