Search Results - "Somay, László"
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Non-rotational set-aside fields improve reproductive success of cavity-nesting bees and wasps at the landscape scale, but have no effect on other wild bees and hoverflies in mid-summer
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-03-2021)“…•Cavity-nesting bee, wasp reproduction was higher in landscapes with set-aside field.•Reproduction, richness of cavity-nesting bees, wasps increased by…”
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Changing assembly rules during secondary succession: evidence for non-random patterns
Published in Basic and applied ecology (01-05-2021)“…Describing the rules of community assembly is a central topic of ecology. Studying successional processes through a trait-based null model approach can help to…”
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Wood Pastures: A Transitional Habitat between Forests and Pastures for Dung Beetle Assemblages
Published in Forests (01-01-2021)“…Wood pastures are home to a variety of species, including the dung beetle. Dung beetles are an important functional group in decomposition. Specifically, in…”
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Landscapes, orchards, pesticides–Abundance of beetles (Coleoptera) in apple orchards along pesticide toxicity and landscape complexity gradients
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-09-2017)“…•Pesticides determined the abundance of poorly dispersing beetles in apple orchards.•Landscape composition drove the abundance of well-dispersing…”
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Improving ecosystem services in farmlands: beginning of a long-term ecological study with restored flower-rich grasslands
Published in Ecosystem health and sustainability (31-12-2022)“…Biodiversity declines in an unprecedented way, mostly due to land use change. Restoration interventions proved to be one of the most effective tools to halt…”
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The effects of woody plant encroachment and wildfire on plant species richness and composition: Temporal changes in a forest–steppe mosaic
Published in Applied vegetation science (01-01-2021)“…Questions Woody plant encroachment and wildfire may both have major effects on species richness and composition, yet studies that assess these two factors in…”
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Contrasting effects of land use legacies on grassland restoration in burnt pine plantations
Published in Biological conservation (01-09-2016)“…Legacies of previous land use may affect ecosystem recovery after the specific land use has ceased. Determining which legacies do limit ecosystem recovery is…”
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Mixed effects of ecological intensification on natural pest control providers: a short-term study for biotic homogenization in winter wheat fields
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (27-03-2020)“…Agricultural intensification is one of the major drivers of biotic homogenization and has multiple levels ranging from within-field management intensity to…”
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Climate-induced phenological shift of apple trees has diverse effects on pollinators, herbivores and natural enemies
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (26-07-2018)“…Climate change is altering the phenology of trophically linked organisms, leading to increased asynchrony between species with unknown consequences for…”
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Recovery of inland sand dune grasslands following the removal of alien pine plantation
Published in Biological conservation (01-03-2014)“…•We studied the recovery of two grassland types after the burn of pine plantation.•Open grasslands had good regeneration potential.•Closed grassland species…”
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Weak evidence of long-term extinction debt in Pannonian dry sand grasslands
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-01-2014)“…•Effect of present and past landscape context examined on sand grassland biodiversity.•Primary grassland specialist species defined by statistical fidelity…”
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Dung beetle assemblages, dung removal and secondary seed dispersal: data from a large-scale, multi-site experiment in the Western Palaearctic
Published in Frontiers of biogeography (2018)“…By manipulating faeces during feeding and breeding, dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) fulfil important ecosystem functions in terrestrial ecosystems…”
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Functionally richer communities improve ecosystem functioning: Dung removal and secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles in the Western Palaearctic
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-01-2019)“…Aim In several ecosystems, the diversity of functional species traits has been shown to have a stronger effect on ecosystem functioning than taxonomic…”
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Relationships between wild bees, hoverflies and pollination success in apple orchards with different landscape contexts
Published in Agricultural and forest entomology (01-02-2016)“…Pollination is an important ecosystem service because many agricultural crops such as fruit trees are pollinated by insects. Agricultural intensification,…”
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Oak regeneration at the arid boundary of the temperate deciduous forest biome: insights from a seeding and watering experiment
Published in European journal of forest research (01-06-2021)“…Previous studies found that pedunculate oak, one of the most widespread and abundant species in European deciduous forests, regenerates in open habitats and…”
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Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification
Published in Nature communications (06-12-2023)“…Dung removal by macrofauna such as dung beetles is an important process for nutrient cycling in pasturelands. Intensification of farming practices generally…”
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Dung beetle assemblages, dung removal and secondary seed dispersal: data from a large-scale, multi-site experiment in the Western Palaearctic
Published in Frontiers of biogeography (2018)“…By manipulating faeces during feeding and breeding, dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) fulfil important ecosystem functions in terrestrial ecosystems…”
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