Publications

Selected recent publications:

2024

Tölgyesi, C., Tóth, V., Hábenczyus A. A., Frei K., Tóth, B., Erdős, L., Török, P., Bátori, Z. (2024): Suppressing the invasive common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.) saves soil moisture reserve. Biological Invasion 26, 2791-2799.

2023

Tölgyesi, C., Hábenczyus, A. A., Kelemen, A., Török, P., Valkó, O., Deák, B., Erdős, L., Tóth, B., Csikós, N., Bátori, Z. (2023): How to not trade water for carbon with tree planting in water-limited temperate biomes? Science of the Total Environment 856:158960. 

Tölgyesi, C., Kelemen, A., Bátori, Z., Kiss, R., Hábenczyus, A. A., Havadtői, K., Varga, A., Erdős, L., Frei, K., Tóth, B., Török, P. (2023): Maintaining scattered trees to boost carbon stock in temperate pastures does not compromise overall pasture quality for the livestock. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment Volume 351, 108477.

Benedek Tóth

PhD student, University of Szeged (supervisor: Orsolya Valkó)

✉ toth.benedek1001@gmail.com 

Research interests

I am a PhD student who is interested in several ecological topics, mostly community dynamics and ecological restoration. The basement of communities is the plant components on every habitat because they are the producers, the first pieces of the food chain which can define the habitat characteristics. Therefore the most important task for me is the protection and restoration of plant communities from anthropogenic effects. In my PhD topic we examine the effects of organic fertilization on different vegetation types of mown grasslands. Not just the effects on vegetation dynamics, also the effects on the soil seedbank to get a complete picture from the treatment.

Global climate change poses many challenges for the human population. The question is how nature reacts to these challenges. The best scenario that a researcher should do to protect nature if he did nothing, just monitored it. In this case we don't have to interfere with the processes of dynamics, we just need to notice the changes. Unfortunately in most cases the restoration is the only solution due to the several degraded natural and semi-natural habitats.

However not just the researcher can defend nature, also the common people can if they are educated and have enough information about conservation techniques. Our aim is to educate people how to use seeds of indigenous flowering plants in their garden instead of alien species. This knowledge transfer might bring nature closer to the people, conserve native species and help human properties inthe countryside and suburban area to become more natural.