The Institute of Aquatic Ecology is the largest scientific centre in Hungary which considers its mission to be the outstanding regional engagement in the field of aquatic ecology and its co-studies, and to establish and represent international research trends in Hungary. The Institute’s primary mission is to conduct basic research, with a special focus on integrative, systems ecology approaches to climate change, invasions and anthropogenic impacts on water, thus contributing to the maintenance and improvement of the ecological status of our domestic waters.
Priority Areas
- Autecology of species in aquatic ecosystems.
- Field and experimental ecological studies exploring community assembly rules.
- Biogeochemical studies.
- Distributional biology studies.
- Investigation of factors threatening aquatic biodiversity (climate change, biological invasions, anthropogenic pollution, habitat loss).
- Conservation biology and restoration ecology research to support the protection of biodiversity.
- Integrative systems ecology analysis of aquatic ecosystem services, and of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
- Applied limnological, aquatic ecological and water quality research.
- Monitoring tasks and methodological developments relevant to the Water Framework Directive.
- Citizen science programmes.
Priority publications
Patonai, Katalin ; Bessenyei, Anna ; Vad, Csaba F. ; Borza, Péter. Functional responses correspond to stable isotope-based trophic positions among four invasive Ponto-Caspian mysid species (Crustacea, Mysida) NEOBIOTA, 93 pp. 187-201. , 15 p.
2024
Szabó Beáta; Váczy‐Földi Máté; Vad Csaba F.; Pálffy Károly; Huỳnh Thu‐Hương; Dobosy Péter; Fierpasz Ádám; Márton Zsuzsanna; Felföldi Tamás; Horváth Zsófia. Connectivity Loss in Experimental Pond Networks Leads to Biodiversity Loss in Microbial Metacommunities GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 30 : 12 Paper: e70001 (2024)
2024
Pálffy K.; Smeti E. Combined effect of warming, nutrients, and species pool size on the seasonal variability of phytoplankton composition: A modeling perspective LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, Paper: 12548 (2024)
2024
Lovas-Kiss Á.; Antal L.; Mozsár A.; Nyeste K.; Somogyi D.; Kiss B.; Tóth R.; Tóth F.; Fazekas D.L.; Vitál Z.; Halasi-Kovács B.; Tóth P.; Szabó N.; Löki V.; Vincze O.; Lukács B.A. Bird-mediated endozoochory as a potential dispersal mechanism of bony fishes ECOGRAPHY, Paper: e07124 (2024)
2024
Brans Kristien I.; Vad Csaba F.; Horváth Zsófia; Santy Luca; Cuypers Kiani; Ptacnik Robert; De Meester Luc. Regional and fine-scale local adaptation in salinity tolerance in Daphnia inhabiting contrasting clusters of inland saline waters PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 291 : 2016. Paper: 20231917 (2024)
2024
Lameck Azaria Stephano; Saeed Omar; Boros Emil. The chemical composition, classification, and geographical distributions of soda-saline lakes in Eastern Tanzania’s rift valley JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY: REGIONAL STUDIES, 51. Paper: 101668 (2024)
2024
Barta Barbara; Szabó Attila; Szabó Beáta; Ptacnik Robert; Vad Csaba; Horváth Zsófia. How pondscapes function: connectivity matters for biodiversity even across small spatial scales in aquatic metacommunities ECOGRAPHY, 2024 (2), Paper: e06960 (2024)
2024
