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Végvári, Zsolt, DSc

Director, Instiute of Aquatic Ecology
Scientific Advisor

Contact:
vegvari.zsolt@ecolres.hu
+36 1 279 3100

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Main profile in keywords:
climatic responsiveness, migration, waterbirds, reproductive strategies, distribution modelling

1) Climatic responsiveness
We investigate how plants and animals respond to climatic processes by modifying their phenological characteristics, such as flowering and emergence dates as well as the timing of migratory movements, considering broad taxonomic scales.

2) Migration dynamics and conservation of waterbirds
On global scales, we analyse changes in migratory behaviour of waterbirds (for instance in cranes, geese, ducks and shorebirds) as a result of human disturbance and predation, as well as its conservation implications.

3) Reproductive strategies of vertebrates
We investigate evolutionary relationships among breeding systems (bias in sex ratio, social mating system, sex determination system) in a broad taxonomic scale of vertebrates, as well as the environmental drivers governing these associations, with a special respect to the climatic metrics of distribution ranges.

4) Distribution modelling
Primarily in animals of key conservation concern, we predict current climatically potential distribution areas, using available occurrence locations, which we project to past (for example to the Last Glacial Maximum) and future (2050, 2080) temporal scales, which allow the identification of glacial refugia as well as the expected shift of distribution areas driven by current climatic processes, which is important in developing species-specifics conservation plans.