TY - JOUR AU - Kovacsics-Vári, Gergely AU - Sonkoly, Judit AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - McIntoshné Buday, Andrea AU - Díaz Cando, Patricia AU - Törő-Szijgyártó, Viktória AU - Balogh, Nóra AU - Guallichico Suntaxi, Luis Roberto AU - Espinoza Ami, Francis David AU - Demeter, László AU - Tóthmérész, Béla AU - Török, Péter TI - Intensity‐dependent effects of cattle and sheep grazing in sand grasslands ‐ Does livestock type really matter? JF - APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE J2 - APP VEGE SCI VL - 26 PY - 2023 IS - 2 SN - 1402-2001 DO - 10.1111/avsc.12727 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33787185 ID - 33787185 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Törő-Szijgyártó, Viktória AU - Balogh, Nóra AU - Henn, Tamás AU - McIntoshné Buday, Andrea AU - Sonkoly, Judit AU - Takács, Attila AU - Kovacsics-Vári, Gergely AU - Cando, Patricia Díaz AU - Molnár, V. Attila AU - Matus, Gábor AU - Teleki, Balázs AU - Süveges , Kristóf AU - Lukács, Balázs András AU - Lovas-Kiss, Ádám AU - Tóthmérész, Béla AU - Tóth, Edina AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Török, Péter TI - New thousand-seed weight dataset for plant species of Central Europe JF - DATA IN BRIEF J2 - DATA BRIEF VL - 48 PY - 2023 PG - 5 SN - 2352-3409 DO - 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109081 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33718295 ID - 33718295 N1 - Data Article AB - One of the most important and most easily measurable physical characteristics of plant seeds is their weight, which influences and indicates crucial ecological processes. Seed weight affects spatial and temporal dispersibility, and can also influence seed predation and the germination, growth and survival of seedlings. Providing trait data for species missing from international databases is key to promote studies that advance our understanding of the functioning of plant communities and ecosystems, which is an essential issue in the face of the global climate change and biodiversity loss. Compared to species from Western and Northwestern Europe, those with an Eastern or Central European centre of distribution are underrepresented in most international trait databases. Therefore, the creation of specific trait databases is key to help regional studies. In this respect, it is important not only to collect fresh seeds for weight measurements, but also to measure and process data of seeds preserved in collections and make them available to the broader scientific community. In this data paper we provide seed weight data to fill in missing trait data of plant species of Central and Eastern Europe. Our dataset includes weight measurement for 281 taxa of the Central European flora including also some cultivated and exotic species. The seeds were collected between 1971 and 2021 mostly in Central Europe. One part of the measured seeds was collected in the last decade, the other part is from an older seed collection, but all seeds were measured recently. For each species, we collected a minimum of 3 × 100 intact seeds, if possible. The seeds were air-dried at room temperature (approximately 21 °C and 50% relative humidity) for at least two weeks and measured with an accuracy of 0.001 g using an analytical balance. The thousand-seed weights reported here were calculated based on the measured values. Our goal for the future is to incorporate the seed weight data reported here in a regional database (Pannonian Database of Plant Traits – PADAPT) that gathers plant traits and other plant characteristics for the Pannonian flora. The data presented here will facilitate trait-based analyses of the flora and vegetation of Central Europe. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kiss, Réka AU - Deák, Balázs AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Lukács, Katalin AU - Rádai, Zoltán AU - Kelemen, András AU - Miglécz, Tamás AU - Tóth, Ágnes AU - Godó, Laura AU - Valkó, Orsolya TI - Co-seeding grasses and forbs supports restoration of species-rich grasslands and improves weed control in ex-arable land JF - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS J2 - SCI REP VL - 12 PY - 2022 IS - 1 PG - 13 SN - 2045-2322 DO - 10.1038/s41598-022-25837-4 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33300224 ID - 33300224 N1 - ‘Lendület’ Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmány str. 2–4, Vácrátót, 2163, Hungary Department of Ecology, University of Debrecen, Egyetem sqr. 1, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary Juhász-Nagy Pál Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, Egyetem sqr. 1, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary Centre for Ecological Research, National Laboratory for Health Security, Karolina út 29, Budapest, 1113, Hungary Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Közép Fasor 52, Szeged, 6726, Hungary Hungarian Research Institute for Organic Agriculture, Miklós tér 1, Budapest, 1033, Hungary Cited By :1 Export Date: 5 December 2023 Correspondence Address: Valkó, O.; ‘Lendület’ Seed Ecology Research Group, Alkotmány str. 2–4, Hungary; email: valkoorsi@gmail.com AB - Sowing is widely used for the restoration of species-rich grasslands but still there are knowledge gaps regarding the most suitable application of different seed mixtures. We tested the effect of seed mixtures application timing on the establishment of sown forbs and weed control. 36 experimental plots with nine sowing treatments were established in an abandoned cropland in Hungary. Grass-seeds, diverse forb seed mixture and the combination of the two were applied: diverse forb mixture was sown simultaneously or 1, 2 or 3 years after grass sowing, in plots sown previously with grass or in empty plots (fallows). All sowing treatments supported the rapid establishment of the sown species in large cover and hampered weed encroachment. Forbs performed better when sown into fallows than in grass-matrix and forbs establishment was worse in older fallows than in younger ones. Grasses expressed a strong priority effect, especially when forbs were sown at least two years later than grasses. We also investigated the relation between seed germinability, weather parameters and establishment success. Germination rate in the greenhouse could not predict the establishment success of forbs in the field and showed great differences between years, hence we recommend sowing target forbs in multiple years. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - McIntoshné Buday, Andrea AU - Sonkoly, Judit AU - Takács, Attila AU - Balogh, Nóra AU - Kovacsics-Vári, Gergely AU - Teleki, Balázs AU - Süveges , Kristóf AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Hábenczyus, Alida Anna AU - Lukács, Balázs András AU - Lovas-Kiss, Ádám AU - Löki, Viktor AU - Tomasovszky, Alexandra AU - Tóthmérész, Béla AU - Török, Péter AU - Tóth, Edina TI - New data of plant leaf traits from Central Europe JF - DATA IN BRIEF J2 - DATA BRIEF VL - 42 PY - 2022 PG - 6 SN - 2352-3409 DO - 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108286 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32830324 ID - 32830324 AB - Trait-based ecology is gaining ground nowadays on species-based ecology: the number of research and publication focusing on the ecological role of taxa instead of the species themselves increased significantly in the last two decades. One great advantage of this approach is that communities with different species composition due to great geographical distances (e.g., different continents) or different environmental conditions (e.g., loess, sand, and alkaline grasslands) become comparable. Obtaining trait values is, however, labour and time consuming even in the case of so-called soft traits. It is therefore reasonable and desirable for scientists to share their data as widely as possible. Demand for such data induced the publication of data papers and the establishment of databases, which support both theoretical ecological research and practical restoration ecological projects. Although several international databases (e.g., TRY, LEDA, CLO-PLA, BiolFLOR) are available nowadays, Central and Eastern European species are either missing or underrepresented in them. Consequently, measurement and publication of the traits of species typical in the above region is necessary. This paper presents leaf trait (leaf fresh and dry weight, leaf area, specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content) data for more than 1100 species of the Central European flora. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Süveges , Kristóf AU - Takács, Attila AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Török, Péter AU - Vikár, József AU - Molnár, Csaba TI - Taxonomical and chorological notes 14 (138–152) JF - STUDIA BOTANICA HUNGARICA J2 - STUD BOT HUNG VL - 52 PY - 2021 IS - 1 SP - 65 EP - 79 PG - 15 SN - 0301-7001 DO - 10.17110/StudBot.2021.52.1.65 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32721006 ID - 32721006 AB - Th e present part of the series provides miscellaneous new records of 15 taxa of vascular plants from Hungary. New chorological records are provided here: Androsace maxima, Helminthia echioides and Hypericum elegans are new for the ‘Közép-Tisza-vidék’, Helminthia echioides is also new to the ‘Duna-sík’, Aphanes arvensis and Medicago rigidula are new in the ‘Hajdúság’, Bolboschoenus maritimus is new for the Putnok Hills and Sajó Valley, Draba muralis is new for the Mátra Mts, Eriochloa villosa is a new alien weed in Western Hungary, Erucastrum nasturtiifolium is new for the ‘Zagyva-völgy’ microregion, Gagea minima is new for the ‘Cserhát’, Polycarpon tetraphyllum is new to the fl ora of the Transdanubian Mountains, a new population of Reseda inodora has been found in the Kiskunság (Harta), Sherardia arvensis is new both for ‘Nyírség’ and ’Hajdúság’, Tordylium maxmimum is new for the ‘Marosszög’ microregion, and the rare hybrid Tragopogon ×crantzii is new for the Jászság. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Balogh, Nóra AU - Tóthmérész, Béla AU - Valkó, Orsolya AU - Deák, Balázs AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Molnár, Zsolt AU - Vadász, Csaba AU - Tóth, Edina AU - Kiss, Réka AU - Sonkoly, Judit AU - Antal, Károly AU - Tüdősné Budai, Júlia AU - Miglécz, Tamás AU - Kelemen, András TI - Consumption rate and dietary preference of cattle in species-rich mesic grasslands JF - TUEXENIA J2 - TUEXENIA VL - 41 PY - 2021 SP - 395 EP - 410 PG - 16 SN - 0722-494X DO - 10.14471/2021.41.016 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32473152 ID - 32473152 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: MTA's Post Doctoral Research Program; Hungarian Scientific Research FundOrszagos Tudomanyos Kutatasi Alapprogramok (OTKA) [NKFI FK 124404, NKFI KH 130338, NKFI FK 135329, OTKA K 116639, NKFI KH 126477, NKFI PD 128302, NKFI KH 130320]; Bolyai Janos Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Funding text: The authors are grateful to Martin Magnes and one anonymous reviewer for valuable suggestions on the manuscript and the handling editor for handling work and for translating the expanded German summary. We appreciated the helpful comments from Peter Torok. We thank colleagues of the Kiskunsag National Park Directorate for their support. The authors were supported by MTA's Post Doctoral Research Program (AK), Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OV: NKFI FK 124404, BD: NKFI KH 130338, NKFI FK 135329; BT: OTKA K 116639, NKFI KH 126477, KT: NKFI PD 128302, ET: NKFI KH 130320) and the Bolyai Janos Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (AK, OV, BD). LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kiss, Réka AU - Deák, Balázs AU - Tóthmérész, Béla AU - Miglécz, Tamás AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Török, Péter AU - Lukács, Katalin AU - Godó, Laura AU - Körmöczi, Zsófia Éva AU - Radócz, Szilvia AU - Borza, Sándor AU - Kelemen, András AU - Sonkoly, Judit AU - Kirmer, Anita AU - Tischew, Sabine AU - Valkó, Orsolya TI - Zoochory on and off: A field experiment for trait‐based analysis of establishment success of grassland species JF - JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE J2 - J VEG SCI VL - 32 PY - 2021 IS - 4 SN - 1100-9233 DO - 10.1111/jvs.13051 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32084987 ID - 32084987 N1 - Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary MTA-DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Polish Academy of Sciences, Botanical Garden - Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin, Warsaw, Poland Faculty of Science and Technology, Juhász-Nagy Pál Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany Cited By :2 Export Date: 5 October 2022 CODEN: JVESE Correspondence Address: Deák, B.; Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Hungary; email: debalazs@gmail.com AB - Aims We tested the establishment success of grassland species in the presence or absence of zoochory by livestock and identified the traits associated with successful establishment. Location Hortobagy National Park, Hungary. Methods In six restored species-poor grasslands we established two species-rich 4 m x 4 m source plots per site in 2013. One source plot was managed by extensive cattle grazing ("zoochory on"), the other one was fenced and protected from grazers ("zoochory off"). We monitored the vegetation development in the source plots (2014-2018), and the establishment success of sown species (2016-2018) in adjacent dispersal plots in four, 20-m-long strips per source plot in a total of 960 dispersal plots. We calculated community-weighted means of thirteen plant traits related to regeneration and competitive ability. The effect of grazing, year, distance from source plots, grazing-year and grazing-distance interactions on population and trait dynamics in the source and dispersal plots were analysed with generalized linear mixed-effect models. Results Although grazing reduced the cover and flowering success of sown species in the source plots, the number of successful establishment events was higher in dispersal plots next to grazed source plots. The sown species were the most abundant in plots adjacent to source plots, but occurred at all monitored distances. Zoochory favoured perennial plants with high specific leaf area (SLA), low leaf dry matter content (LDMC), short stature, light seeds, early flowering period, high clonal index and anemochory index. Conclusions We showed that species that can colonize the matrix with and without zoochory have contrasting trait syndromes. In grazing-adapted ecosystems, fencing source populations of target species does not always seem to be a good option. It was a good tool for increasing the cover and flowering success of the sown species in the short run, but it significantly decreased their chance to colonize the surrounding area in the long run. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Valkó, Orsolya AU - Deák, Balázs AU - Török, Péter AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Kiss, Réka AU - Kelemen, András AU - Miglécz, Tamás AU - Sonkoly, Judit AU - Tóthmérész, Béla TI - Dynamics in vegetation and seed bank composition highlight the importance of post‐restoration management in sown grasslands JF - RESTORATION ECOLOGY J2 - RESTOR ECOL VL - 29 PY - 2021 IS - S1 SN - 1061-2971 DO - 10.1111/rec.13192 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31336172 ID - 31336172 N1 - MTA-ÖK Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmány út 2-4, Vácrátót, 2163, Hungary Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, Egyetem sqr. 1, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary MTA-DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group, Egyetem sqr. 1, Debrecen, 4032, Hungary Export Date: 11 January 2021 Correspondence Address: Deák, B.; MTA-ÖK Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmány út 2-4, Hungary; email: debalazs@gmail.com AB - Sowing grasses supports the rapid development of a closed perennial vegetation, which makes the method universally suitable for fast and effective landscape-scale restoration of grasslands. However, to increase their diversity and to create a natural-like species-rich grassland is a challenging task. Understanding the role of seed bank compositional changes and vegetation dynamics can help to design management regimes that support the establishment of target species and suppress unwanted weeds. Our aim was to reveal the effect of post-restoration management on the vegetation and seed bank dynamics in grasslands restored in one of the largest European landscape-scale restoration projects. Eight years after restoration, we sampled the vegetation and the seed bank in 96 quadrats located in 12 restored grasslands in the Great Hungarian Plain. In each grassland stand, we studied and compared a mown (mown from Year 1 to Year 8) and an abandoned plot (mown from Year 1 to Year 3 then abandoned from Year 4 to Year 8). Mown and abandoned plots showed divergent vegetation and seed bank development. Abandonment led to the decline of sown grasses and higher cover of weeds, especially in the alkaline grasslands. Our study underlined that the developing seed bank had a limited contribution to the maintenance of biodiversity in both grassland types. We found that 5 years of abandonment had a larger effect on the seed bank than on the vegetation. We stress that long-term management is crucial for controlling the emergence of the weeds from their dense seed bank in restored grasslands. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Kiss, Réka AU - Deák, Balázs AU - Tóthmérész, Béla AU - Miglécz, Tamás AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Török, Péter AU - Lukács, Katalin AU - Godó, Laura AU - Körmöczi, Zsófia Éva AU - Radócz, Szilvia AU - Kelemen, András AU - Sonkoly, Judit AU - Kirmer, Anita AU - Tischew, Sabine AU - Švamberková, Eva AU - Valkó, Orsolya TI - Establishment gaps in species‐poor grasslands: artificial biodiversity hotspots to support the colonization of target species JF - RESTORATION ECOLOGY J2 - RESTOR ECOL VL - 29 PY - 2021 IS - S1 SN - 1061-2971 DO - 10.1111/rec.13135 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31177588 ID - 31177588 N1 - MTA-ÖK Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary MTA-DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Faculty of Science and Technology, Juhász Nagy Pál Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology and Landscape Development, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Cited By :6 Export Date: 30 March 2021 Correspondence Address: Deák, B.; MTA-ÖK Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Hungary; email: debalazs@gmail.com MTA-ÖK Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary MTA-DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Faculty of Science and Technology, Juhász Nagy Pál Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology and Landscape Development, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Cited By :7 Export Date: 29 July 2021 Correspondence Address: Deák, B.; MTA-ÖK Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Hungary; email: debalazs@gmail.com MTA-ÖK Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary MTA-DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Faculty of Science and Technology, Juhász Nagy Pál Doctoral School, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology and Landscape Development, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Cited By :8 Export Date: 22 September 2021 Correspondence Address: Deák, B.; MTA-ÖK Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Hungary; email: debalazs@gmail.com LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Valkó, Orsolya AU - Lukács, Katalin AU - Deák, Balázs AU - Kiss, Réka AU - Miglécz, Tamás AU - Tóth, Katalin AU - Tóth, Ágnes AU - Godó, Laura AU - Radócz, Szilvia AU - Sonkoly, Judit AU - Kelemen, András AU - Tóthmérész, Béla TI - Laundry washing increases dispersal efficiency of cloth-dispersed propagules JF - NEOBIOTA J2 - NEOBIOTA VL - 61 PY - 2020 SP - 1 EP - 16 PG - 16 SN - 1619-0033 DO - 10.3897/neobiota.61.53730 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31617459 ID - 31617459 AB - Due to increased human mobility, cloth-dispersed propagules can be transported over long distances, which would not have been bridged otherwise. We studied a potentially important component of human-mediated seed dispersal by assessing the effects of laundry washing on the dispersed propagules. We studied the germination of 18 species, which have morphological adaptations for epizoochory and are commonly dispersed by people. We tested six treatments (washing with water, soap nut or detergent, at 30 degrees C or 60 degrees C) compared to an untreated control. Washing intensity was the most significant factor affecting germination. Washing at 30 degrees C was neutral for 14 species, suppressed one species and supported three species. Washing at 60 degrees C decreased seedling numbers of half of the studied species. The intensive washing treatments at 60 degrees C significantly decreased the synchrony of germination. We showed that people are not purely transporting propagules from one location to another, but via the laundry cycle, we can also influence the fate of the transported propagules by affecting germination potential, seedling fitness and germination dynamics. These results have new implications for understanding the early stages of biological invasions and call for improved biosecurity measures in nature reserves subjected to a growing pressure of tourism. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -