Wednesday, 5 June 2019

Eurasian Grassland Conference

Last week we participated in the annual EGC conference of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group in Graz, Austria. The venue was located at the wonderful Botanical Garden, and the event was organized by our friend, Martin Magnes. The topic of the conference was 'Species-rich grasslands in the Palaearctic – a treasure without economic value?'.

We are very proud to our current and former students, who were awarded by the Young Investigator Prizes:

1st YIP Prize for oral presentations - Réka Kiss
3rd YIP Prize for oral presentations - Laura Godó
2nd YIP Prize for poster presentations - Katalin Lukács

The happy Winners: Laura Godó, Réka Kiss, Katalin Lukács.
Our group had the following presentations on the conference

Iva Apostolova, Balázs Deák, Anna Ganeva, Desislava Sopotlieva, George Nehrizov, Kiril Vassilev, Magdalena Valcheva, Nadya Tsvetkova, Nikolay Velev, Salza Palpurina, Tsvetana Popova, Tsvetelina Terzyiska, Vassil Vassilev, Veselin Shivarov & Yasen Stoyanov: Ancient burial mounds serve as refugee islands for semi-natural grasslands in Bulgaria.

Balázs Deák, Orsolya Valkó, Dávid Nagy D., Péter Török, Attila Torma, Gábor Lőrinczi, András  Kelemen,  Szabolcs  Mizser,  Antal  Nagy,  Ádám  Bede, András  István Csathó & Béla Tóthmérész: Kurgans as refuges for grassland species: large-scale multi-taxon study on Eurasian burial mounds.

Balázs Deák, Csaba Albert Tóth, Ádám Bede, Iva Apostolova, Miklós Bán & Ferenc Báthori: Citizen science as a tool for conserving grasslands on sacred natural sites – the main goals of the Eurasian Kurgan Database.

Laura Godó, Orsolya Valkó, Béla Tóthmérész, Katalin Tóth, Réka Kiss, Szilvia Radócz, András Kelemen, Péter Török, Eva Švamberková & Balázs Deák: The red fox  as  an  ecosystem  engineer:  Effect  of  fox  burrows  on  the  grassland  vegetation  of kurgans.

Réka Kiss, Béla Tóthmérész, Balázs Deák, Péter Török,Tamás Miglécz, Katalin  Tóth,  András  Kelemen, Szilvia  Radócz,  Laura  Godó,  Zsófia  Körmöczi,  Katalin Lukács, Judit Sonkoly, Anita Kirmer, Sabine Tischew & Orsolya Valkó: Establishment gaps:  new  and  successful  tool  to  overcome  propagule-  and  microsite-limitations  in grasslands.

Nóra Kovácsné Koncz, Béla Béri, Balázs Deák, András Kelemen, Katalin Tóth, Réka Kiss, Szilvia Radócz, Tamás Miglécz, Béla Tóthmérész & Orsolya Valkó: Meat production and maintaining biodiversity: Grazing by traditional and crossbred beef cattle breeds in marshes and grasslands.

Katalin Lukács, Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török, Béla Tóthmérész, Szilvia Radócz & Balázs Deák: Kurgans as refuges of rare dry grassland species.

Dávid D. Nagy, Orsolya Valkó, Tibor Magura, Balázs Deák, Roland Horváth, Zsuzsanna Debnár & Béla Tóthmérész: Unburned microhabitats and their surroundings support epigeic arthropods after prescribed burning of dry grasslands.

Orsolya Valkó, Katalin Lukács, Balázs Deák, Réka Kiss, Katalin Tóth, Laura Godó, Tamás Miglécz, Judit Sonkoly, Szilvia Radócz, András Kelemen & Béla Tóthmérész:  A  new  aspect  of  the  dispersal  of  alien  plants  in  grasslands  -  Human-dispersed seeds can survive and disperse after the laundry cycle.

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