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Csaba Vad

@csabavad.bsky.social
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Ecologist at Institute of Aquatic Ecology, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research - vadlab.com freshwater ecology, biodiversity, global change ecology, zooplankton

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Horváth Metacommunity Lab @metacomlab.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🤩 A few exciting highlights from the first week of our summer survey! (Sound on! 🔊) 📸 Our wildlife cameras are currently monitoring the first 40 #MyPond #ponds, capturing all animal visitors until the end of the month, so we're hoping for many more exciting encounters! 🐸🐗🦉🐈‍⬛🦔🦡🐾 #citizenscience
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Thu-Hương Huỳnh @hhuong152.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Garden ponds are easy to dismiss as too small to matter, but they contribute meaningfully to #urbanbiodiversity. Our new paper looks at what zooplankton live in garden vs urban ponds, and how fish and urban cover shape those communities. Check it out: doi.org/10.1002/lno....
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Zooplankton communities and their responses to fish presence and urban cover across garden and other urban ponds
As cities expand globally, the ratio of artificial to natural freshwater habitats is increasing. While public urban ponds have been the subject of an increasing number of biodiversity studies, the bi...
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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#Postdoc #Position opening up in my group: Developing Analytical #Pipelines and #Analyses to Survey #Invasive Alien #Species in Aquatic Systems using #eDNA (2 years) 🧬 📈 ❗ 🦐 🦀 🐠 🌍🌐❗ #JobOpening 🎯 apply.refline.ch/673277/1364/... 📍 Apply now & thx for spreading the word (deadline Aug 14th)
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Csaba Vad @csabavad.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Proud to see our work, excellently led by my PhD student @varsharani.bsky.social, published in L&O Letters! We found that warming shifts the diet of the invasive mysid Limnomysis benedeni toward greater herbivory, potentially changing its role in plankton food webs. 🦐🌡️🌊 #ASLO_Letters
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Barbara Barta @bartabarbara.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨New paper🚨From a survey of 560 garden-pond owners, nearly half keep invasive macrophytes, often bought through online communities that are blind spots for researchers and authorities. #waterhyacinth #waterlettuce #invasiveplants #citizenscience 🌿🌱🌺 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
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Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In our new review in WIREs WATER, we synthesize knowledge on ecosystem (dis)services, multifunctionality, and trade‐offs in urban ponds and highlight garden ponds as a specific subtype that deserves more attention 🏙️🔵🏡 doi.org/10.1002/wat2... @epcn.bsky.social
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Urban Ponds and the Emerging Role of Garden Ponds: Ecosystem Services and Disservices, Multifunctionality, and Trade‐Offs
Urban ponds and garden ponds—a specific subset of the former, usually located in private gardens—are both typical examples of ponds in the urban landscape. They deliver multiple ecosystem services bu...
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Sam Macaulay @samuelmacaulay.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
3/ Overcoming spatio-temporal constraints is important, because: 🔹 Restoration is a prolonged process which typically occurs at large spatial scales, 🔹 Connectivity is important in ecological recovery.
A traffic light framework of constraints, limitations and opportunities in aquatic mesocosm research for advancing solutions to environmental threats. Constraints represent broader factors or ecological issues that might limit solution-focused research relative to research quantifying anthropogenic impacts (as indicated by our survey results). Associated with these are more specific limitations of mesocosm systems that might halt or hinder solution-oriented research with mesocosms. Thirdly are the opportunities for overcoming these, which highlight several directions for moving forward in future solution-oriented research utilising mesocosms.
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Sam Macaulay @samuelmacaulay.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
2/Mesocosms have mostly been used to quantify impacts of environmental threats, but there's largely untapped potential in using them to test solutions! We explore the opportunities that mesocosms offer in providing controlled, realistic and replicable environments for investigating novel solutions.
Conceptual diagram representing an empirical domain space for ecological research constrained by scales of realism, replication and control. The relative placement of different approaches to empirical research represented by the cubes within the three-dimensional space illustrates the advantages and disadvantages of each approach, with the advantages of micro/mesocosm-based approaches in balancing and extending these three dimensions (scales) illustrated by the positioning of these cubes towards the upper corner nearest the viewpoint.
Specific study designs and experimental systems using the approaches pictured will vary considerably and influence the positioning of any one study within this space. The approach taken and experimental design used to address a particular research question will be informed by the ecological and biological variables of interest, factors manipulated, responses measured and desired application of the findings. The positioning of the cubes here is intended to illustrate the general tradeoffs within these key three scales relative to other approaches.
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Sam Macaulay @samuelmacaulay.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How can mesocosms help tackle grand ecological challenges in aquatic ecosystems? 🌊🌍 Check out our open-access Oikos Forum article, out today: 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/oik.... @oikosjournal.bsky.social
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Addressing grand ecological challenges in aquatic ecosystems: how can mesocosms be used to advance solutions?
Rapid and drastic anthropogenic impacts are affecting global biogeochemical processes and driving biodiversity loss across Earth's ecosystems. In aquatic ecosystems, species distributions are shiftin...
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Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Invited commentary on our paper available at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... from @mstockenreiter.bsky.social ! Link to our paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @schneiderbea.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social
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Stay Connected to Be Diverse!
Plankton biodiversity is crucial for the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, influencing nutrient cycling, food web dynamics, and carbon storage. Global change and habitat destruction disrupt these ec...
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Zsuzsanna Márton @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Excited to share our new paper on garden pond biodiversity 🐸🐦‍⬛ resulting from our citizen science project MyPond. Dive into the details here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @bartabarbara.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @schneiderbea.bsky.social @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social
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Effects of urbanisation, habitat characteristics, and management on garden pond biodiversity: Findings from a large-scale citizen science survey
The rapid expansion of urban areas often leads to degradation, fragmentation, and loss of natural habitats, threatening biodiversity. While urban pond…
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TanentzapfLab @tanentzapflab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it gets taken for granted & consequently no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you will have less & less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field
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Michael Hochberg @mkhochb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A preview of Part 1 of my book "An Editor's Guide to Writing and Publishing Science" is now freely available on Google Books shorturl.at/0xo93 If you like this preview, consider buying the book. If you can't afford the book, then contact me and I'll send it to you for free.
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An Editor's Guide to Writing and Publishing Science
A good research paper is more than just a clear, concise, scientific expose. It is a document that needs to go beyond the science to attract attention. There are both strict and less definable norms f...
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Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! shorturl.at/9o9ak
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Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Relative strength of drivers might differ for the structure of metacommunities and metapopulations within the same landscape 🔵🪁🔵 We have provided the first empirical evidence for this with Daphnia magna and Cladocera metacommunities! 🧬🧪🔬
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