Our new perspective article on the conservation of Palaearctic grasslands has been published in Biological Conservation.
In our recently published paper, we investigated grassland recovery following wildfire and firebreak establishment.
Deák B., Süveges K., Gőri Sz., Kapocsi I., Gál L. and Valkó O. (2026): Trade-offs between fire suppression and biodiversity: vegetation recovery in burnt grasslands and firebreaks under different restoration treatments. Fire Ecology,...
Our latest article, with Rocco Labadessa as the first author, has been published. Here we were able to indulge our passion for the biodiversity sustained by ancient burial mounds in a new biogeographic region: the Mediterranean :)
Our recent study by Réka Kiss about the resilience of restored grasslands has recently been published in Ecological Solutions and Evidence.
On 22 January 2026 the Cyprus Institute, the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, and the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) organized a public lecture and presentation of the EASAC report entitled Changing Wildfires - Policy Options for a Fire-literate and Fire-adapted Europe.
The 2025 Triennial Conference and General Assembly ofthe InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) took place 8-11 December 2025 in Cairo, Egypt, hosted by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT). This is a very interesting and prestigious international conference with the aim to discuss how science can help advancing sound policies,...
It is a sad but evident fact that the expansion of agricultural areas over the past centuries has led to an enormous loss of natural habitats worldwide. However, it is perhaps less well known that the unprecedented intensification of agriculture in the decades following the Second World War has also caused the disappearance of many weed species...
We are very grateful for the support of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) for supporting our project entitled "How Can Small Grasslands Help Protect Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes?" (PI: Balázs Deák), that provides an excellent possibility for studying the importance of small habitat islands (covered with...
Our recent study published in the Plants, People, Planet journal revealed that ancient burial mounds – also known as kurgans – play a crucial role in preserving medicinal plant species and their phytochemical diversity within European agricultural landscapes. These mounds, constructed thousands of years ago by steppe nomadic cultures, are widely...
In a nice international team led by Valentin Klaus we have recently published a comment paper about the potential of the EU Nature Restoration Law in making our cities more resilient, biodiverse and liveable.
