TY - CHAP AU - Varga, Anna ED - Farkas, Judit TI - Nature Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge T2 - Environmental Issues – Community Answers PB - PTE BTK Néprajz-Kulturális Antropológia Tanszék CY - Budapest SN - 9782336430225 PY - 2024 SP - 136 EP - 152 PG - 17 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34784660 ID - 34784660 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Gyurkó, Adrienn AU - Baktay, Borbála AU - Varga, Anna AU - Szani, Zsolt TI - Complex evaluation of wild pear JF - ACTA UNIVERSITATIS SAPIENTIAE AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT J2 - ACTA UNIV SAP AGRIC ENVI VL - 15 PY - 2023 IS - 1 SP - 66 EP - 73 PG - 8 SN - 2065-748X DO - 10.2478/ausae-2023-0006 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34816499 ID - 34816499 AB - The National Centre for Biodiversity and Gene Conservation (NBGK) started the gene bank collection and agrobotanical evaluation of wild pear varieties in 2022. The survey of individuals and the recording of descriptors was carried out in several rounds. Part of the data was recorded in situ on the field, and the other part was analysed after the trip. For the in-situ collection of wild fruit plant species and varieties, it was necessary to develop a method for the collection and description. This applied to the development of the survey methodology as well as to the design of the working method. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Tölgyesi, Csaba AU - Kelemen, András AU - Bátori, Zoltán AU - Kiss, Réka AU - Hábenczyus, Alida Anna AU - Havadtői, Krisztina AU - Varga, Anna AU - Erdős, László AU - Frei, Kata AU - Tóth, Benedek György AU - Török, Péter TI - Maintaining scattered trees to boost carbon stock in temperate pastures does not compromise overall pasture quality for the livestock JF - AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT J2 - AGR ECOSYST ENVIRON VL - 351 PY - 2023 PG - 8 SN - 0167-8809 DO - 10.1016/j.agee.2023.108477 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33710529 ID - 33710529 N1 - MTA-SZTE Lendület Applied Ecology Research Group, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, Szeged, 6726, Hungary Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52, Szeged, 6726, Hungary Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmány út 2-4, Vácrátót, 2163, Hungary Milvus Group Bird and Nature Protection Association, Bulevardul 1 Decembrie 1918 nr. 121, Târgu-Mureș, Romania Department of European Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs, Rókus utca 2, Pécs, 7624, Hungary ELKH-DE Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, University of Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Alkotmány út 2-4, Vácrátót, 2163, Hungary University of Debrecen, Department of Ecology, Egyetem tér 1, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary Polish Academy of Sciences, Botanical Garden, Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin, Warszawa, 202-973, Poland Export Date: 24 July 2023 CODEN: AEEND Correspondence Address: Tölgyesi, C.; MTA-SZTE Lendület Applied Ecology Research Group, Közép fasor 52, Hungary; email: festuca7@yahoo.com AB - Scattered trees in wood-pastures represent outstanding conservation value by providing microhabitats for a variety of organisms. They also diversify ecosystem services by creating shade for livestock, and capturing and storing carbon. However, trees in wood-pastures are declining Europe-wide and an appropriate legal environment to maintain them is mostly lacking. Here we looked beyond the well-documented beneficial effects of trees and assessed potential ecosystem disservices, which may drive the controversial appreciation of trees. In a grazing exclusion experiment, we assessed the effect of trees on herbage production in wood-pastures from semiarid continental to humid montane areas in the temperate deciduous forest ecoregion, and found that trees have a suppressive effect throughout the year, although herbage nutritive value, as indicated by herbage nitrogen content, seems to be improved in spring. When we up-scaled the local ecosystem disservice on herbage yield to entire wood-pastures, the loss remained below 3%, which is lower than reported gains in livestock production due to free access to shade. Thus, the motivation for the under-appreciation of trees by land managers and decision makers may lie in that trees suppress herbage production, but the importance of this effects is offset by the magnitude of the beneficial services of trees. We recommend current wood-pasture stakeholders to revisit their attitude towards scattered trees and encourage tree planting campaigns and tree-based climate mitigation strategies to consider the protection of trees in wood-pastures and the establishment of young ones in currently open pastures up to traditionally low tree cover proportions, as livestock production is unlikely to be compromised by this action. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Varga, Anna TI - Environmental history – Ethnobiologist – Conservation science – Environmental education PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33574744 ID - 33574744 N1 - [Előadás] LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Varga, Anna TI - Nagyszederfa és elkülönözés – egy ökológus projektjei a Néprajz – Kulturális Antropológia Tanszéken PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33574599 ID - 33574599 N1 - (Előadás, 2022.05.06) LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Varga, Anna TI - Environmental history and the global sustainability crisis: contributions and research gaps PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33574581 ID - 33574581 N1 - [kerekasztal beszélgetés] LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Varga, Anna AU - Zoltán, Tamás Samu AU - Judit, Bódis TI - Transformative effects of the plastic milk bag on a wood pasture and the socio-ecological system of a Hungarian village in the last 50 years PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33574565 ID - 33574565 N1 - [Poster] LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Varga, Anna TI - Case studies for forest and pasture enclosure during the 19th Century in the Transdanubian region of Hungary PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33572421 ID - 33572421 N1 - Előadás LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Varga, Anna TI - Historical floodplain management by the Danube in the region of Sárköz, Hungary PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33572379 ID - 33572379 N1 - [Előadás] LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Varga, Anna TI - Legacies of the enclosures – the introduction of the „Environment and society transformation of common forest and pasture use in the 18th and 19th centuries and its contemporary effects in Southern Transdanubia PY - 2022 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33572364 ID - 33572364 N1 - [Előadás] LA - English DB - MTMT ER -