Profile

Horváth, Zsófia, PhD

VÖI Deputy Director
senior research fellow

Research groups:
Biodiversity and Metacommunity Ecology Research Group

Contact:
horvath.zsofia@ecolres.hu
+36 1 279 3100 / 114

Selected publications

Huỳnh Thu‐Hương; Vad Csaba F.; Barta Barbara; Szabó Beáta; Buttyán Bence; Hamer Andrew J.; Tornero Irene; Márton Zsuzsanna; Uhrin Márton; Horváth Zsófia. Zooplankton communities and their responses to fish presence and urban cover across garden and other urban ponds LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, 71 : 7. Paper: e70464 (2026)
2026

Horváth Z, Uhrin M, Cunillera-Montcusí D, Barta B, Szabó B, Hamer AJ, Márton Z, Huỳnh T-H, Buttyán B, Vad CF Urban ponds and the emerging role of garden ponds: Ecosystem services and disservices, multifunctionality, and trade-offs Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 12: e70041.
2025

Barta Barbara; Márton Zsuzsanna; Szabó Beáta; Vad Csaba F.; Lukács Balázs András; Horváth Zsófia. Garden Ponds: Hidden Sources for Plant Invasions? FRESHWATER BIOLOGY, 70 : 12. Paper: e70145 (2025)
2025

MÁRTON Zsuzsanna; BARTA Barbara; VAD Csaba F.; SZABÓ Beáta; HAMER Andrew J.; KARDOS Vivien; LASKAI Csilla; FIERPASZ Ádám; HORVÁTH Zsófia. Effects of urbanisation, habitat characteristics, and management on garden pond biodiversity: Findings from a large-scale citizen science survey LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING, 257, Paper: 105299 (2025)
2025

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

Horváth Zsófia; Hadush Haileselasie Tsegazeabe; Vad Csaba F.; Ptacnik Robert; De Meester Luc; Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans OIKOS Early View 2024. dec. 5. Paper: e10887 (2024)
2024

Hamer Andrew J.; Barta Barbara; Márton Zsuzsanna; Vad Csaba F.; Szabó Beáta; Tornero Irene; Horváth Zsófia. Patterns and correlates in the distribution, design and management of garden ponds along an urban–rural gradient URBAN ECOSYSTEMS (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

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

Cunillera-Montcusí, David; Beklioğlu, Meryem; Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel; Jeppesen, Erik; Ptacnik, Robert; Amorim, Cihelio A.; Arnott, Shelley E.; Berger, Stella A.; Brucet, Sandra; Dugan, Hilary A.; Gerhard, Miriam; Horváth, Zsófia; Langenheder, Silke; Nejstgaard, Jens C.; Reinikainen, Marko; Striebel, Maren; Urrutia-Cordero, Pablo; Vad, Csaba F.; Zadereev, Egor; Matias, Miguel. Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. 37: 440-453
2022

Szabó, Beáta; Szabó, Attila; Vad, Csaba F.; Boros, Emil; Lukić, Dunja; Ptacnik, Robert; Márton, Zsuzsanna; Horváth, Zsófia. Microbial stowaways: Waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro‐ and microeukaryotic communities JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY. 49: 1286, JBI14381-
2022

Guzman, Laura Melissa; Thompson, Patrick L.; Viana, Duarte S.; Vanschoenwinkel, Bram; Horváth, Zsófia; Ptacnik, Robert; Jeliazkov, Alienor; Gascón, Stéphanie; Lemmens, Pieter; Anton‐Pardo, Maria; Langenheder, Silke; De Meester, Luc; Chase, Jonathan M. Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes ECOLOGY. 103: Paper e3683-
2022