List of publications from the lab since 2020
Lab members in bold
(You can find my complete publication list here or here)
35. Pálffy, K., Márton, Z., Horváth, Z. & Vad C.F. 2025 Patterns of eDNA-based functional diversity and resource use efficiency in phytoplankton along environmental stress gradients in inland saline waters. Hydrobiologia pdf
34. Barta, B., Márton, Z., Szabó, B., Vad, C.F., Lukács, B. & Horváth, Z. 2025. Garden ponds: hidden sources for plant invasions? Freshwater Biology 70 (12), e70145 pdf
33. Dolmans, V., Partoen, L., Deboelpaep, E., Horváth Z. & Vanschoenwinkel B. 2025. Dietary data suggest large branchiopods may be an overlooked food resource for a wide range of waterbirds. Hydrobiologia 852: 4297-4313 pdf
32. Kotowska D., Báldi A.; Dobosy P., Felföldi T., Garamszegi L.Z., Horváth Z., Kröel-Dulay G., Ódor P., Valkó O. & Batáry P. 2025. Aligning land use with sustainability: Context-sensitive pathways forward. Journal of Environmental Management 394: 127252
31. Hárságyi, D., Cunillera-Montcusí, D., Ficsór, M., Bonada, N., Datry, T., Künne, A., Miliša, M., Mimeau, L., Pařil, P., Pernecker, B., Boda, P., Móra, A. & Csabai, Z. 2025. Connectivity-driven assembly of Trichoptera metacommunities across river networks with different drying patterns. Freshwater Biology 70: e70053 pdf
30. Horváth Z., Haileselasie T.H., Vad C.F., Ptacnik R. & De Meester L. 2025. Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans. Oikos 2025(4): e10887 pdf
29. Horváth Z., Uhrin, M., Cunillera-Montcusí, D., Barta, B., Szabó, B., Hamer, A.J., Márton, Z., Huynh, T-H., Buttyán, B. & Vad, C.F. 2025. Urban ponds and the emerging role of garden ponds: ecosystem services and disservices, multifunctionality, and trade-offs. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 12 (6): e70041, DOI: 10.1002/wat2.70041
28. Macaulay S.J., Jeppesen E., Riebesell U., Nejstgaard J.C., Berger S.A., Lewandowska A.M., Rico A., Kefford B.J., Vad C.F., Costello D.M., Wang H. , Pimentel I.M. , Ramos J.B., González J., Spilling C., de Senerpont Domis L., Boersma M., Stockenreiter M., Meerhoff M., Vijver M.G., Kelly-Quinn M. , Beklioğlu M., Matias M.G., Sswat M., Juvigny-Khenafou N.P.D., Fink P., Zhang P. , Taniwaki R.H., Ptacnik R., Langenheder S., Nederstigt T.A.P., Horváth Z. & Piggott J.J. 2025. Grand ecological challenges in aquatic ecosystems: Utilising mesocosms to move from understanding threats towards advancing solutions. Oikos 2025(5): e11020 pdf
27. Márton Z, Barta B, Vad CF, Szabó B, Hamer AJ, Kardos V, Laskai C, Fierpasz A, Horváth Z. 2025. Effects of urbanisation, habitat characteristics, and management on garden pond biodiversity: Findings from a large-scale citizen science survey. Landscape and Urban Planning 257: e105299 pdf
26. *Szabó B., *Váczy-Földi M., Vad C.F., Pálffy K., Huynh T.-H., Dobosy P., Fierpasz Á., Márton Z., Felföldi T. & Horváth Z. 2024. Connectivity loss in experimental pond networks leads to biodiversity loss in microbial communities. Global Change Biology 30(12): e70001 pdf *equal contribution
25. Barta, B., Szabó, A., Szabó, B., Ptacnik, R., *Vad, C. F. & *Horváth, Z. 2024. How pondscapes function: Connectivity matters for biodiversity even across small spatial scales in aquatic metacommunities. Ecography 2024(2), e06960 pdf *equal contribution
24. *Brans, K. I., *Vad, C. F., *Horváth, Z., Santy, L., Cuypers, K., Ptacnik, R., & De Meester, L. 2024. Regional and fine-scale local adaptation in salinity tolerance in Daphnia inhabiting contrasting clusters of inland saline waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291: 20231917 pdf *equal contribution
23. Hamer, A.J., Barta, B., Marton, Z., Vad, C.F., Szabo, B., Tornero, I. & Horvath, Z., 2024. Patterns and correlates in the distribution, design and management of garden ponds along an urban-rural gradient. Urban Ecosystems 27, 1915–1930 pdf
22. Huynh-Ngoc TH, Horváth Z, Pálffy K, Kardos V, Szabó B, Dobosy P & Vad CF. 2024. Heatwave-induced functional shifts in zooplankton communities result in weaker top-down control on phytoplankton. Ecology and Evolution 14(8), e70096. pdf
21. Patonai, K., Endrédi, A., Horváth, Z., Borza, P., Pálffy, K., Dobosy, P. & Vad, C. F. 2024. Trophic impact of an invasive mysid shrimp depends on zooplankton community composition: A mesocosm experiment. Freshwater Biology 69: 623-634 pdf
20. Rani, V., Horváth, Z., Nejstgaard, J.C., Fierpasz, Á., Pálffy, K. and Vad, C.F., 2024. Food density drives diet shift of the invasive mysid shrimp, Limnomysis benedeni. Ecology and Evolution, 14(4), e11202. pdf
19. Tornero, I., Gascón, S., Cunillera‐Montcusí, D., Sala, J., Compte, J., Quintana, X. D., & Boix, D. 2024. Untangling the roles of centrality and environmental contribution in diversity patterns across spatial scales. Ecosphere, 15(4), e4846. pdf
18. Hahs, A. K., Fournier, B., Aronson, M. F., Nilon, … Hamer, A. J., … & Moretti, M. (2023). Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide. Nature Communications, 14(1), 4751. pdf
17. Beranek C.T., Hamer A.J., Mahony S.V., Stauber A., Ryan S.A., Gould J., Wallace S., Stock S., Kelly O., Parkin T., Weigner R., Daly G., Callen A., Rowley J.J.L., Klop-Toker K. & Mahony M. 2023. Severe wildfires promoted by climate change negatively impact forest amphibian metacommunities. Diversity and Distributions, 29(6): 785-800 pdf
16. Hamer A.J., Mechura T. & Puky M. 2023. Patterns in usage of under-road tunnels by an amphibian community highlights the importance of tunnel placement and design for mitigation. Global Ecology and Conservation 43: e02420 pdf
15. Márton Z., Szabó B., Vad C.F., Pálffy K. & Horváth Z. 2023. Environmental changes associated with drying climate are expected to affect functional groups of pro- and microeukaryotes differently in temporary saline waters. Scientific Reports 13, 3243 pdf
14. Lukić D., Pohrmehr N., Beladjal L., Vad C.F., Ptacnik R., Van Stappen G., Agh, N. & Horváth Z. 2023 Life-history omnivory in the fairy shrimp Branchinecta orientalis (Branchiopoda: Anostraca). Hydrobiologia 850: 901–909 pdf
13. Kiss I. Vörös J. & Hamer A.J. 2022. Larval development and habitat usage of stream-breeding Fire salamanders in an urban environment. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 68: 321-340 pdf
12. Cunillera-Montcusí D., Beklioğlu M., Cañedo-Argüelles M., Jeppesen E., Ptacnik R., Amorim C.A., Arnott S., Berger S.A., Brucet S., Dugan H.A., Gerhard M., Horváth Z., Langenheder S., Nejstgaard J.C., Reinikainen M., Striebel M., Urrutia-Cordero P., Vad C.F., Zadereev E. & Matias M. 2022 Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37: 440-453 pdf
11. Guzman L.M., Thompson P.L., Viana D.S., Vanschoenwinkel B.J., Horváth Z., Ptacnik R., Jeliazkov A., Gascón S., Lemmens P., Anton-Pardo M.T., Langenheder S., De Meester L. & Chase J. M. 2022. Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes. Ecology 103: e3683 pdf
10. Szabó B., Szabó A., Vad C.F., Boros E., Lukić D., Ptacnik R., Márton Z. & Horváth Z. 2022. Microbial stowaways–waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro-and microeukaryotic communities. Journal of Biogeography 49: 1286–1298 pdf
9. Hamer A.J., Barta B., Bohus A., Gál B. & Schmera D. 2021. Roads reduce amphibian abundance in ponds across a fragmented landscape. Global Ecology and Conservation 28: e01663 pdf
8. Lukić D., Pinceel T., Marrone F., Mioduchowska M., Vad C.F., Brendonck L., Ptacnik R. & Horváth Z. 2021. Pleistocene allopatric differentiation followed by recent range expansion explains the distribution and molecular diversity of two congeneric crustacean species in the Palaearctic. Scientific Reports 11, 22866 pdf
7. Szabó A., Korponai K., Somogyi B., Vajna B., Vörös L., Horváth Z., Boros E., Szabó-Tugyi N., Márialigeti K. & Felföldi T. 2020. Grazing pressure-induced shift in planktonic bacterial communities with the dominance of acIII-A1 actinobacterial lineage in soda pans. Scientific Reports 10, 19871 pdf
6. Cozma N.J., Vad C.F., Horváth Z., Kiss B., Müller Z., Viski V.B. & Lengyel S. 2020. Extreme weather drives spatial and temporal variation in water bug (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha) assemblages in soda pans in Hungary. Inland Waters 10: 397-408. link
5. Stenger-Kovács C., Lengyel E., Sebestyén V. & Szabó B. 2020. Effects of land use on streams: traditional and functional analyses of benthic diatoms. Hydrobiologia 847: 2933-2946. pdf
4. Lengyel E., Szabó B. & Stenger-Kovács C., 2020. Realized ecological niche-based occupancy–abundance patterns of benthic diatom traits. Hydrobiologia 847: 3115–3127 pdf
3. Thompson P. L., Guzman M. L., De Meester L., Horváth Z., Ptacnik R., Vanschoenwinkel B., Viana D. S. & Chase J. M. 2020. A process-based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology. Ecology Letters 23: 1314–1329 pdf
2. Vad C.F., Schneider C., Lukić D., Horváth Z., Kainz M.J., Stibor H. & Ptacnik R. 2020. Grazing resistance and poor food quality of a widespread mixotroph impair zooplankton secondary production. Oecologia 193: 489-502 pdf
1. Lukić D., Ptacnik R, Vad C.F., Póda C. & Horváth Z. 2020. Environmental constraint of intraguild predation: inorganic turbidity modulates omnivory in fairy shrimps. Freshwater Biology 65: 226-239 pdf
Lab of Zsófia Horváth 