Research article published in Urban Ecosystems. Authors: Gabriella Süle, Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki, Miklós Sárospataki, Tünde Ilona Kelemen, Gabriella Halassy, Anna Horváth, Imre Demeter, András Báldi & Viktor Szigeti Short summary: Urbanisation plays a major role in the loss of biodiversity. While pollinators can be helped by providing feeding and nesting sites in cities through proper maintenance of green spaces. Finding solutions that are acceptable to both nature conservation and citizens is not so easy in a densely populated, highly built-up and ever-changing urban environment. Yet a growing number of studies show
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Recently, authors including Safeguard researcher Viktor Szigeti from the Centre for Ecological Research (OK) have published the first study documenting phenotypic senescence in a natural butterfly population, using in vivo measurements. The paper published in the Ecology and Evolution journal and titled “Phenotypic senescence in a natural insect population” sheds light on the body mass and thorax width changes, that happen with age in a natural population of the univoltine Clouded Apollo butterfly (Parnassius mnemosyne, Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Another focus of investigation is the relationship of this change with sex and
Title: Long-term changes in the composition and distribution of the Hungarian bumble bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus) Authors: Dóra Arnóczkyné Jakab, Miklós Tóth, István Szarukán, Szabolcs Szanyi, Zsolt Józan, Miklós Sárospataki, Antal Nagy AbstractOne of the most important pollinator taxa is Bombus (Hymenoptera, Apidae), the genus of bumble bees,since they are important, often specialized, pollinators of many plants. As a result of climate change,warming winters and changes in landscape structure, the distribution and frequency of Bombus speciesis constantly changing. To develop appropriate protection strategies, it is essential to monitor them
A new publication has been released by our SAFEGUARD colleagues at the Centre for Ecological Research. Viktor Szigeti*, Annamária Fenesi, Zoltán Botta-Dukát, Michael Kuhlmann, Simon G. Potts, Stuart Roberts, Zoltán Soltész, Edina Török, Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki “Invasion of the traits” – The effect of invasion on pollinator communities Invasive plant species have a negative effect also on the local fauna, such as pollinating insects, due to the transformation of vegetation and domination of the floral resources. This study investigated the effect of ten different herbaceous invasive plant species on the functional