News, Recent News

SAFEGUARD publication: First steps of pollinator-promoting interventions in Eastern European urban areas – positive outcomes, challenges, and recommendations

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

News, Recent News

Innovation Tour to São Paulo 25 – 29 September 2023

Apply NOW! The objective of the ENRICH in LAC Innovation Tour 2023 is to provide an opportunity to European companies, applied research organizations, cluster, technoparks to get to know the Brazilian STI landscape and the main stakeholders in the LAC region, explore the cutting-edge technology ecosystem in São Paulo within the defined priority fields. Participants will have the chance to meet the major technology players in these fields, present their idea/product /service and learn about the host organisations’ technological standing as well as challenges. A unique networking experience connects European

News, Recent News

New research article published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research

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

News, Recent News

Trait-based effects of plant invasion on floral resources, hoverflies and bees

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

News, Recent News

Мaking research accessible and relevant to policy making: Safeguard’s Second Annual General Meeting

Consortium members of the Safeguard project met up between 6 and 10 March 2023 for the project’s second Annual General Meeting. The four-day-long event, hosted by the partner institution Pensoft Publishers, was marked by insightful presentations, vivid discussions and an overview of the project’s developments and future initiatives. The format in mind was a hybrid conference environment, with people coming to Sofia, Bulgaria for the physical meeting and the remaining participants attending online. The progress, challenges and future plans of all Safeguard work packages have been presented and discussed during