Kísérletes Vegetációökológiai Kutatócsoport - terep

Research groups

Experimental Vegetation Ecology Research Group

Head of the research group:

Kröel-Dulay, György, PhD

senior research fellow

Members of the research group:

Kertész, Miklós, PhD
senior research fellow
Mojzes, Andrea, PhD
research fellow
Ónodi, Gábor, PhD
research fellow
Rigó, Attila
assistant research fellow
Vörös, Amira Fatime
assistant research fellow

Main profile:

We investigate how changing climate and land use affect vegetation in the sand region of Kiskunsag, Central Hungary. Research topics include the ecological effect of warming, drying, wildfires, and plant invasion, as well as succession following land abandonment and following the removal of alien tree plantations. Approaches range from descriptive local case studies and long-term monitoring, through lanscape and regional-scale surveys, to complex field experiments.

Selected publications

Orbán Ildikó; Ónodi Gábor; Kröel‐Dulay György.: The role of drought, disturbance, and seed dispersal in dominance shifts in a temperate grassland JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE, 34 : 4 Paper: e13199 (2023)
2023

Kröel-Dulay, György; Mojzes, Andrea; Szitár, Katalin; Bahn, Michael; Batáry, Péter; Beier, Claus; Bilton, Mark; De Boeck, Hans J.; Dukes, Jeffrey S.; Estiarte, Marc; Holub, Petr; Jentsch, Anke; Schmidt, Inger Kappel; Kreyling, Juergen; Reinsch, Sabine; Larsen, Klaus Steenberg; Sternberg, Marcelo; Tielbörger, Katja; Tietema, Albert; Vicca, Sara; Peñuelas, Josep.: Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. 6: 540-545
2022

Erdős László; Vu Ho Khanh; Bede‐Fazekas Ákos; Kröel‐Dulay György; Tölgyesi Csaba; Bátori Zoltán; Török Péter.: Environmental filtering is the primary driver of community assembly in forest–grassland mosaics: A case study based on CSR strategies JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE, 35 : 1. Paper: e13228 (2024)
2024

Erdős László; Ho Khanh Vu; Bátori Zoltán; Kröel‐Dulay György; Ónodi Gábor; Tölgyesi Csaba; Török Péter; Lengyel Attila.: Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity peaks do not coincide along a compositional gradient in forest‐grassland mosaics JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 111 : 1 pp. 182-197. , 16 p. (2023)
2023

Vu Ho Khanh; Kröel-Dulay György; Tölgyesi Csaba; Bátori Zoltán; Tanács Eszter; Kertész Miklós; Török Péter; Erdős László.: Non-native tree plantations are weak substitutes for near-natural forests regarding plant diversity and ecological value FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 531 Paper: 120789 (2023)
2023

Ónodi G.; Kröel-Dulay G.; Kertész M.; Botta-Dukát Z.: Robust methods are needed to resolve contradictions in species richness curves along ecological gradients PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 1433-8319 1433-8319. 57: 125703-
2022

Seres Anikó; Kröel‐Dulay György; Szakálas Judit; Nagy Péter István; Boros Gergely; Ónodi Gábor; Kertész Miklós; Szitár Katalin; Mojzes Andrea: The response of litter decomposition to extreme drought modified by plant species, plant part, and soil depth in a temperate grassland ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 12 : 12 Paper: e9652 (2022)
2022

Erdős, László; Bede-Fazekas, Ákos; Bátori, Zoltán; Berg, Christian; Kröel-Dulay, György; Magnes, Martin; Sengl, Philipp; Tölgyesi, Csaba; Török, Péter; Zinnen, Jack.: Species-based indicators to assess habitat degradation: Comparing the conceptual, methodological, and ecological relationships between hemeroby and naturalness values ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS. 136: -
2022

Mojzes, Andrea; Kalapos, Tibor; Kröel-Dulay, György.: Drought in maternal environment boosts offspring performance in a subordinate annual grass ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY. 187: -
2021

Erdős László; Török Péter; W. Veldman Joseph; Bátori Zoltán; Bede-Fazekas Ákos; Magnes Martin; Kröel-Dulay György; Tölgyesi Csaba.: How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest-grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest-steppe biome. BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, 09 August 2022, Early View
2022

Erdős, László; Szitár, Katalin; Öllerer, Kinga; Ónodi, Gábor; Kertész, Miklós; Török, Péter; Baráth, Kornél; Tölgyesi, Csaba; Bátori, Zoltán; Somay, László; Orbán, Ildikó; Kröel-Dulay, György.: Oak regeneration at the arid boundary of the temperate deciduous forest biome: insights from a seeding and watering experiment EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH. 140: 589-601
2021

Erdős, L.; Török, P.; Szitár, K.; Bátori, Z.; Tölgyesi, Cs.; Kiss, P. J.; Bede-Fazekas, Á.; Kröel-Dulay, Gy.: Beyond the forest-grassland dichotomy: the gradient-like organization of habitats in forest-steppes FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 11: -
2020

Erdős, László; Krstonošić, Daniel; Kiss, Péter János; Bátori, Zoltán; Tölgyesi, Csaba; Škvorc, Željko.: Plant composition and diversity at edges in a semi-natural forest–grassland mosaic PLANT ECOLOGY. 220: 279-292
2019

Mojzes, Andrea; Ónodi, Gábor; Lhotsky, Barbara; Kalapos, Tibor; Kröel-Dulay, György.: Experimental drought indirectly enhances the individual performance and the abundance of an invasive annual weed OECOLOGIA. 193: 571-581
2020

Ónodi, Gábor; Kröel‐Dulay, György; Botta‐Dukát, Zoltán; Kertész, Miklós.: Disturbance reshapes the productivity–diversity relationship JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE. 32: -
2021

Ónodi, Gábor; Kertész, Miklós; Lengyel, Attila; Pándi, Ildikó; Somay, László; Szitár, Katalin; Kröel‐Dulay, György.: The effects of woody plant encroachment and wildfire on plant species richness and composition: Temporal changes in a forest–steppe mosaic APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE. 24: -
2021

Cseresnyés, Imre; Rajkai, Kálmán; Szitár, Katalin; Radimszky, László; Ónodi, Gábor; Kröel-Dulay, György.: Root capacitance measurements allow non-intrusive in-situ monitoring of the seasonal dynamics and drought response of root activity in two grassland species PLANT AND SOIL. 449: 423-437
2020

Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo; Ónodi, Gábor; Kröel-Dulay, György; Kertész, Miklós.: Enhancement of Ecological Field Experimental Research by Means of UAV Multispectral Sensing DRONES. 3: -
2019

Ónodi, G; Botta-Dukát, Z; Kröel-Dulay, Gy; Lellei-Kovács, E; Kertész, M.: Reduction in primary production followed by rapid recovery of plant biomass in response to repeated mid-season droughts in a semiarid shrubland PLANT ECOLOGY. 219: 517-526
2018

Erdős, L; Ambarlı, D; Anenkhonov, O; Bátori, Z; Cserhalmi, D; Kiss, M; Kröel-Dulay, Gy; Liu, H; Magnes, M; Molnar, Zs; Naqinezhad, A; Semenishchenkov, Y; Tölgyesi, Cs; Török, P.: The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest-steppes APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE. 21: 345-362
2018

Kröel-Dulay, György; Csecserits, Anikó; Szitár, Katalin; Molnár, Edit; Szabó, Rebeka; Ónodi, Gábor; Botta-Dukát, Zoltán.: The potential of common ragweed for further spread: invasibility of different habitats and the role of disturbances and propagule pressure BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS. 21: 137-149
2019

Erdős, L; Kröel-Dulay, Gy; Bátori, Z; Kovács, B; Németh, Cs; Kiss, P J; Tölgyesi, Cs.: Habitat heterogeneity as a key to high conservation value in forest-grassland mosaics BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION. 226: 72-80
2018

Kertész Miklós; Aszalós Réka; Lengyel Attila; Ónodi Gábor.: Synergistic effects of the components of global change: Increased vegetation dynamics in open, forest-steppe grasslands driven by wildfires and year-to-year precipitation differences PLOS ONE, 12 : 11. Paper: e0188260 (2017)
2017

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