A very inspiring and successful conference entitled "Protecting the kurgans '30" was organised by the Government Office of Békés County, the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Körös-Maros National Park Directorate in Békéscsaba on 21 November 2024. The occasion of the event was that 30 years ago, in the same place, a...
Our new paper by Laura Godó et al. has recently been published in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment about the effect of mound-building and caching activities of the steppe mouse.
Our new paper by Réka Kiss et al. has been published today about the population dynamics of the spring meadow saffron in Scientific Reports.
In our study recently published in Human Ecology, we aimed to explore the cultural values associated with the mounds, provide an overview of the landscape changes on and around the kurgans during the past 280 years, and explore the plant biodiversity of the kurgans. Based on our results, we evaluated factors that can support or endanger the...
Our latest paper about grassland restoration by topsoil removal and topsoil transfer has been recently published in BMC Ecology and Evolution.
Our latest paper, a global review about urban grassland restoration has been published in Journal of Environmental Management. This is a result of a nice cooperation between our research group and Valentin Klaus (ETH Zürich) and Leonie Fisher (University of Stuttgart).
Our new paper by Balázs Deák et al. about the plant trait distributions in topographically heterogeneous dry grasslands has recently been published in the Science of the Total Environment.
Congratulations to Kata Lukács, who last week defended her PhD thesis entitled "The mechanism and ecological importance of human-vectored seed dispersal" with summa cum laude. We wish you all the best for the future and continue happy sciencing :)
In early April, we took part in an unforgettable expedition to the Kyzyl-Kum desert in Uzbekistan. Five members of our research team (Balázs Deák, András Kelemen, Réka Kiss, Katalin Lukács, Orsolya Valkó), Csaba Tölgyesi and Zoltán Bátori from the University of Szeged, and Toshpulot Rajabov and Abdubakir Kushbokov from Samarkand State University...
Our new perspectives paper, about the challenges related to seed provenancing in restoration has been recently published in Biological Conservation.
