A review of the defining chemical properties of soda lakes and pans: an assessment on a large geographic scale of Eurasian inland saline surface waters

E Boros, M Kolpakova - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The aim of this study is to evaluate the definition of water chemical type, with particular
attention to soda brine characteristics by assessing ionic composition and pH values on a …

Habitat loss over six decades accelerates regional and local biodiversity loss via changing landscape connectance

Z Horváth, R Ptacnik, CF Vad, JM Chase - Ecology letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
When habitats are lost, species are lost in the region as a result of the sampling process.
However, it is less clear what happens to biodiversity in the habitats that remain. Some have …

Where the little ones play the main role—Picophytoplankton predominance in the soda and hypersaline lakes of the Carpathian Basin

B Somogyi, T Felföldi, E Boros, A Szabó, L Vörös - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
The extreme environmental conditions of the diverse saline inland waters (soda lakes and
pans, hypersaline lakes and ponds) of the Carpathian Basin are an advantage for …

Overview of past, current, and future ecosystem and biodiversity trends of inland saline lakes of Europe and Central Asia

E Zadereev, O Lipka, B Karimov, M Krylenko… - Inland …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This review of trends in inland saline lakes of Europe and Central Asia is based on the
relevant section of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and …

Expanding the trait-based concept of benthic diatoms: Development of trait-and species-based indices for conductivity as the master variable of ecological status in …

C Stenger-Kovács, K Körmendi, E Lengyel, A Abonyi… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Shallow, saline inland lakes occur over large areas in Central-Europe and they bear
exceptionally high biological conservation values. Climate change and anthropogenic …

Regional and fine-scale local adaptation in salinity tolerance in Daphnia inhabiting contrasting clusters of inland saline waters

KI Brans, CF Vad, Z Horváth… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the spatial scales at which organisms can adapt to strong natural and human-
induced environmental gradients is important. Salinization is a key threat to biodiversity …

Wartime scars or reservoirs of biodiversity? The value of bomb crater ponds in aquatic conservation

CF Vad, AL Péntek, NJ Cozma, A Földi, A Tóth… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Considering the ongoing loss of aquatic habitats, anthropogenic ponds are gaining
importance as substitute habitats. It is therefore important to assess their functioning in …

Wind dispersal results in a gradient of dispersal limitation and environmental match among discrete aquatic habitats

Z Horváth, CF Vad, R Ptacnik - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Directional dispersal by wind and other dispersal agents may generate spatial patterns in
passively dispersing metacommunities which cannot be detected by classical eigenvector …

Microbial communities of soda lakes and pans in the Carpathian Basin: a review

T Felföldi - Biologia Futura, 2020 - Springer
In this review, I would like to summarize the current knowledge on the microbiology of soda
lakes and pans of the Carpathian Basin. First, the characteristic physical and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple extreme environmental conditions of intermittent soda pans in the Carpathian Basin (Central Europe)

E Boros, V Katalin, L Vörös, Z Horváth - Limnologica, 2017 - Elsevier
Soda lakes and pans represent saline ecosystems with unique chemical composition,
occurring on all continents. The purpose of this study was to identify and characterise the …