YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts The Power of Art in Conservation

The Society of Wildlife Art have a wonderful project at Massingham Heath rewilding project, Norfolk. Here Amie Haslam and Brin Edwards explain the project. youtu.be/hiCQiSHuaG4?...

#Workshop: Péter participated in the BES-funded Urban BioDivide project workshop at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, focusing on socio-economic and climate change impacts on access to urban biodiversity. August 2025.
#BES www.britishecologicalsociety.org
www.wits.ac.za

Our study highlights that bee visitation primarily affects blueberry fruit quality through seed set, except for honeybees.

#Publication: Our paper led by Maxime has been published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment with the title "Wild bees mediate fruit quality via seed set in highbush blueberry: A quantitative synthesis." doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to ...

#Award: Our Science paper entitle "Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture" received the Frontiers Planet Prize, honoring research with potential to address urgent environmental challenges.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Frontiers Planet Prize: www.frontiersplanetprize.org

Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to ...

Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture
Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@edinatorok.bsky.social visited the iDiv Leipzig as part of a COST ‪@insectai.bsky.social‬ STSM. Together with Maximilian Sittinger, they developed a prototype of a "smart" bee hotel, a system designed to detect, track cavity-nesting bees in real time using the Insect Detect camera and software.

We concluded that these #road verges, especially those between plantations, may play a role in forest-steppe #restoration.

#Publication: Our paper led by Botond, PhD student of Torma, has been published in Global Ecology and Conservation with the title "Conservation value of grassy road verges in plantation-dominated forest steppe". doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Revealing the Untapped Biodiversity Within Europe’s Villages A groundbreaking new study has shed light on the complex interplay between biodiversity and human well-being in European villages, revealing nuanced trade-offs and synergies shaped by landscape context and urban proximity. Despite their long-standing presence as human settlements, villages have been largely overlooked in ecological and socio-economic research compared to forests, urban centers, and agricultural landscapes. This pioneering work, led by an international team centered at the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research and involving twenty institutes across Hungary, Romania, Germany, and Italy, takes a holistic approach to unravel the biodiversity potential embedded in rural villages and how various landscape characteristics influence ecological and human prosperity.

Revealing the Untapped Biodiversity Within Europe’s Villages

A groundbreaking new study has shed light on the complex interplay between biodiversity and human well-being in European villages, revealing nuanced trade-offs and synergies shaped by landscape context and urban proximity. Despite their…

#PublicEvent: @edinatorok.bsky.social Niki and Robi took part in the 'Kert a Köbön' (Garden on the Cube) event organised by CER. They discussed pollinators, spiders, and the effectiveness of unmoved strips in grassland conservation.

Unlocking the hidden biodiversity of Europe’s villages Biodiversity of European villages has been understudied compared to urban areas, forests, grasslands, or agricultural fields. A new study reveals their biodiversity potential and how nearby landscapes...

Unlocking the hidden biodiversity of Europe’s villages | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Our results highlight the value of complex landscapes around villages, advocating for both top-down and bottom-up initiatives. ecolres.hun-ren.hu/en/projektek...

Biodiversity and human well-being trade-offs and synergies in villages - Nature Sustainability While biodiversity levels have been studied in many different landscapes, villages have been relatively unexplored in comparison. This study examines biodiversity in Eastern European villages across l...

#Publication: Our Frontline project paper, led by Péter, has been published in Nature Sustainability with the title: Biodiversity and human well-being trade-offs and synergies in villages. doi.org/10.1038/s418...

Defense: Nathalie has successfully defended her PhD at the University of Göttingen with the title “Effects of agri-environmental measures in comparison to traditional grassy field margins on pollination and biocontrol services in conventional agriculture”. Congratulations to her!

Our results highlight the importance of bats and birds in reducing herbivory and increasing economic benefits in vineyards.

Forest cover enhances pest control by birds and bats independently of vineyard management intensity Our results highlight the importance of bats and birds in reducing herbivory and increasing economic benefits in vineyards. Their presence and foraging activity can be promoted by connected landscape...

#Publication: Our Showcase project paper, led by Dávid, has been published in Journal of Applied Ecology with the title: Forest cover enhances pest control by birds and bats independently of vineyard management intensity. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Institute visit: Péter visited the Dept. of Environ. Sci. and Policy at the University of Milan and gave a seminar talk at the invitation of Mattia Brambilla. They enjoyed a great birding and orchid excursion in Oltrepò Pavese.
www.unimi.it/en/ugov/pers...
www.visitpavia.com/en/oltrepo-p...

#Publication: Our latest article by Robi and Niki in Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, titled "A new Panamomops Simon, 1884 from the Hungarian Great Plain (Araneae: Linyphiidae)" introduces Panamomops szinetari, a newly described linyphiid species. doi.org/10.1556/1777...

Visiting scientist: It was great to host Dominik Stočes from Mendel University in Brno as a visiting PhD student! Via Erasmus, he collaborated on Robi's solar park research, studying effects on fluctuating asymmetry of carabid body parameters.

Findings highlight ecological intensification potential via land-use changes.

Land-use impacts on crop yield: direct and indirect roles of arthropods and associated ecosystem services in European farmland - Landscape Ecology Context Land-use intensification to increase yields is often detrimental to biodiversity undermining the provision of ecosystem services. However, it is questionable if ecosystem service providers con...

#Publication: New paper in Landscape Ecology titled "Land-use impacts on crop yield: direct and indirect roles of arthropods and associated ecosystem services in European farmland" from the FunProd Biodiversa project with Péter and Robi as co-authors. doi.org/10.1007/s109...

Our findings underscore the importance of enhancing landscape features in and around villages.

#Publication: Our paper, led by Tamás
‪@lakatostom.bsky.social‬, has been published in Ecological Indicators with the title: Landscape complexity and edge effects shape bird community composition and filter functional traits in villages. doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

A figure showing how different invertebrate species show impacts in relation to woodland covr. Overall the connectivity effect is small, but all groups show it.

Great to see @charles-cunningham.bsky.social's paper out on the impacts of woodland connectivity on the presence of woodland species in the UK. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Although ecologists talk about connectivity being important to maintain, the evidence that this is true is weak. 1/

I have been a beekeeper and would like to be again, but getting beehives to 'Save the bees!' is like a sheep farm to support biodiversity. You can do it well and it can have positive impacts, but more domesticated animals won't save wild populations (don't @ me about sheep, struggled for metaphor)

José JIMÉNEZ ALBARRAL | PhD candidate | PhD candidate | Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario, Villaviciosa | Fruticultura | Research profile I'm a PhD student, and my work is focused on birds and bats' ecosystem services-disservices trade-offs in fruit orchards of Asturias (N Spain).

#Visiting scientist: José Javier Jiménez Albarral from SERIDA, Spain joins us as a visiting PhD student to collaborate on bird studies. He recently presented "Birds and bats' ecosystem services-disservices trade-offs in fruit orchards" at our seminar.
www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose...

Caught one of our Buff-tailed bumblebee queens in the act of egg laying! To start a colony, queens lay eggs inside a pocket in/on a pollen ball so that larvae have direct access to plenty of food when they hatch. Amazed by the deft and speed with which she applies wax to close the egg pocket!

#Event: @edinatorok.bsky.social co-organized Sustainability Theme Days at the National Botanical Garden, engaging pupils with games and discussions on sustainable farming, gardening, and consumer habits to inspire awareness in everyday life.