Publications
Research papers
Oborny B., Zimmermann D. (2023) Advancing and retreating fronts in a changing climate: a percolation model of range shifts. Ecography, e06645.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06645
Oborny B. (2023) Lost in translation? - Caveat to the application of the voter model in ecology and evolutionary biology. Science Progress 106(2).
https://doi.org/10.1177/00368504231175324
Oborny B., Marcsó S. (2023) Self-inhibition and optimal ramet mortality in clonal plants. Flora 302, 152275.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2023.152275
Csákvári, E., ..., Oborny, B., ..., Báldi, A. (2021) Conservation biology research priorities for 2050: a Central and Eastern European perspective. Biological Conservation, 264, 109396.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320721004481
Ishida K., Oborny B., Gastner, M. (2021) Agent-based neutral competition in two-community networks. Phys. Rev. E 104, 024308.
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.024308
Juhász R., Oborny B. (2020) Percolation theory suggests some universal features in range margins across environmental gradients. Ecological Complexity 42, 100814.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2020.100814
Kun Á., Oborny B., Dieckman U. (2019) Five main phases of landscape degradation revealed by a dynamic mesoscale model analysing the splitting, shrinking, and disappearing of habitat patches. Scientific Reports 9: 11149.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47497-7
Gastner M.T., Takács K., Gulyás M., Szvetelszky Zs., Oborny B. (2019) The impact of hypocrisy on opinion formation: a dynamic model. PLoS ONE 14(6): e0218729.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218729
Oborny, B. (2019) The plant body as a network of semi-autonomous agents: a review. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 374(1774): 1-11.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2018.0371
Oborny, B. (2018) Scaling laws in the fine-scale structure of range margins. MDPI Mathematics 6, 315: 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.3390/math6120315
Gastner, M., Gulyás, M., Oborny, B. (2018) Consensus time in the voter model with concealed and publicly expressed opinions. Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2018/063401: 1-21.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-5468/aac14a
Oborny B., Benedek V., Englert P, Gulyás M., Hubai A.G. (2017) The plant in the labyrinth: adaptive growth and branching in heterogeneous environments. Journal of Theoretical Biology 412, 146-153. pdf
Benedek V., Englert P., Oborny B. (2016) The effect of branching angle on adaptive growth in patchy environments. Evolutionary Ecology, 31(3): 333-344. pdf
Oborny, B., Hubai, A.G. (2014) Patch size and distance: modelling habitat structure from the perspective of clonal growth. Annals of Botany, 114(2), 389-398. pdf
Gastner, M., Oborny, B. (2012) The geometry of percolation fronts in two-dimensional lattices with spatially varying densities. New Journal of Physics 14: 103019. pdf
Oborny, B., Mony, C. & Herben, T. (2012) From virtual plants to real communities: a review of modelling clonal plants. Ecological Modelling 234: 3-19. pdf
Oborny, B. & Englert, P. (2012) Plant growth and foraging for a patchy resource: a credit model. Ecological Modelling 234: 20-30. pdf
Gastner, M., Oborny, B., Ryabov, A.B & Blasius, B. (2011) Changes in the gradient percolation transition caused by an Allee effect. Physical Review Letters 106, 128103. pdf
Oborny, B., Botta-Dukát, Z., Rudolf, K. & Morschhauser, T. (2011) Population ecology of Allium ursinum L., a space-monopolizing clonal plant. Acta Botanica Hungarica 53(3-4): 371-388. pdf
Oborny, B. (2010) The evolution of plant growth strategies (in Hungarian). Hungarian Science 4: 1-9.
http://www.matud.iif.hu/2010/04/05.htm
Oborny, B., Vukov, J., Csányi G. & Meszéna, G. (2009) Metapopulation dynamics across gradients – the relation between colonization and extinction in shaping the range edge. Oikos 118: 1453-1460. pdf
Gastner, M., Oborny, B., Pruessner, G. & Zimmermann, D. (2009) Transition from connected to fragmented vegetation across an environmental gradient: scaling laws in ecotone geometry. American Naturalist 174: 23-39.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/599292
See also the press release material from the American Naturalist about the paper: pdf
Kun, Á., Oborny, B. & Dieckmann, U. (2009) Intermediate landscape disturbance maximizes metapopulation density. Landscape Ecology, 24(10): 1341-1350.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10980-009-9386-0
Morschhauser, T., Rudolf, K., Botta-Dukát, Z. & Oborny, B. (2009) Density-dependence in the establishment of juvenile Allium ursinum individuals in a monodominant stand of conspecific adults. Acta Oecologica, 35: 621-629. pdf
Magyar, G., Oborny, B., Kun, Á. & Stuefer, J. (2007) The importance of plasticity and decision-making strategies for plant resource acquisition in spatio-temporally variable environments: a modeling study. New Phytologist 174(1): 182-193.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.01969.x
Magyar, G., Kertész, M. & Oborny, B. (2005) Resource transport between ramets alters soil resource pattern: a simulation study on clonal growth. Evolutionary Ecology 18: 469-492.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10682-004-5140-x
Oborny, B., Meszéna, G. & Szabó, Gy. (2005) Dynamics of populations on the verge of extinction. Oikos 109: 291-296. pdf
Oborny, B. (2003) External and internal control in plant development. Complexity 9(3): 22-28.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.20012
Mágori, K., Oborny, B., Dieckmann, U. & Meszéna, G. (2003) Cooperation and competition in heterogeneous environments - The evolution of resource sharing in clonal plants. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 787-817. pdf
Kun, Á. & Oborny, B. (2003) Survival and competition of clonal plant populations in spatially and temporally heterogeneous environments. Community Ecology 4(1): 1-20.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1556/ComEc.4.2003.1.1
Oborny, B. & Kun, Á. (2003) Fragmentation of clones: How does it influence dispersal and competitive ability? Evolutionary Ecology 15: 319-346.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1016084815108
Szabó, Gy., Gergely, H. & Oborny, B. (2002) Generalized contact process on random environments. Physical Review E, 65:066111. pdf
Oborny, B., Czárán, T. & Kun, Á. (2001) Exploration and exploitation of resource patches by clonal growth: a spatial model on the effect of transport between modules. Ecological Modeling 141 (1-3): 151-169. pdf
Oborny, B., Kun, Á., Czárán, T. & Bokros, Sz. (2000) The effect of clonal integration on plant competition for mosaic habitat space. Ecology 81 (12): 3291-3304. pdf
Oborny, B. & Bartha, S. (1995) Clonality in plant communitites - an overview. Abstracta Botanica 19: 111-127. pdf
Bartha, S., Czárán, T. & Oborny, B. (1995) Spatial constraints masking community assembly rules: a simulation study. Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 30: 471-482. pdf
Jablonka, E., Oborny, B., Molnár, I., Kisdi, É., Hofbauer, J. & Czárán. T. (1995) The adaptive advantage of phenotypic memory in changing environments. Phil. Transact. Royal Society B. 30: 133-144. pdf
Oborny, B. (1994) Spacer length in clonal plants and the efficiency of resource capture in heterogeneous environments: a Monte Carlo simulation. Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 29: 139-158. pdf
Oborny, B. (1994) Growth rules in clonal plants and environmental predictability - a simulation study. Journal of Ecology 82: 341-351. pdf
Oborny, B. (1991) Criticisms on optimal foraging in plants - a review. Abstracta Botanica 15(2): 67-76. pdf
Book chapters
Oborny, B., Szabó, Gy. & Meszéna, G. (2007) Survival of species in patchy landscapes: percolation in space and time. In: Storch, D., Marquet, P. & Brown, J. (eds.) Scaling biodiversity. Cambridge University Press, pp. 409-440. pdf
Pásztor, E., Kalapos, T., Major, Á. & Oborny, B. (2007) Rapid selection processes and spatial differentiation (in Hungarian). In: Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) Ecology. National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest, pp. 186-205.
Mihók, B., Standovár, T., Oborny, B., Hahn, I., Kertész, M., Scheuring, I. & Botta-Dukát, Z. (2007) Species richness (in Hungarian). In: Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) Ecology. National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest, pp. 227-244.
Bartha, S., Virágh, K., Botta-Dukát, Z., Kertész, M. & Oborny, B. (2007) Species composition: texture and co-texture in the community (in Hungarian). In: Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) Ecology. National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest, pp. 245-261.
Oborny, B., Kertész, M. & Ódor, P. (2007) Spatial patterns (in Hungarian). In: Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) Ecology. National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest, pp. 262-275.
Botta-Dukát, Z. & Oborny, B. (2007) From the “superorganism” to the classification of communies (in Hungarian). In: Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) Ecology. National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest, pp. 276-281.
Ódor, P., Virágh, K., Botta-Dukát, Z., Oborny, B., Magyar, G. & Altbäcker, V. (2007) Dynamics of communities (in Hungarian). In: Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) Ecology. National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest, pp. 284-311.
Kisdi, É. & Oborny B. (2007) Habitat loss, fragmentation, and the space requirement of ecological processes (in Hungarian). In: Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) Ecology. National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest, pp. 312-332.
Oborny, B. & Botta-Dukát, Z. (2007) The species pool (in Hungarian). In: Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) Ecology. National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest, pp. 333-336.
Oborny, B., Kun, Á., Czárán, T. & Bokros, Sz. (1998) The effect of clonal integration on plant competition for mosaic habitat space. In: Czárán, T. Spatiotemporal models of population and community dynamics. Chapman and Hall Publ., London, pp. 194-198.
Oborny, B. & Bartha, S. (1998) Impact of clonal species on the diversity and organization of plant communities (in Hungarian). In: Fekete, G. (ed.) Trends in community ecology. Scientia Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 59-86.
Oborny, B. (2002) Dispersal and foraging strategies of plants (in Hungarian). In: Bartha, Z., Liker, A. & Székely, T. (eds.) Behavioural ecology. Osiris Kiadó, Budapest, 43-62. pdf
Oborny, B. & Kun, Á. (2002) Fragmentation of clones: How does it influence dispersal and competitive ability? (reprint) In: Stuefer, J., Erschenbamer, B., Huber, H. & Suzuki, J.-I. (eds.) Ecology and evolutionary biology of clonal plants. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 319-346.
Oborny, B. (2000) Limits of a game - assembly rules in ecological communities (in Hungarian). In: Virágh, K. & Kun, A. (eds.) Vegetation and dynamism. MTA ÖBKI Kiadvány, Vácrátót, 79-96. pdf
Oborny, B. & Cain, M. (1997) Models of spatial spread and foraging in clonal plant species. In: De Kroon, H. & Van Groenendael, J. (eds.) The ecology and evolution of clonal plants. Backhuys Publishing, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 155-184. pdf
Oborny, B. & Bartha, S. (1996) Clonality in plant communitites - an overview. In: Oborny, B. & Podani, J. (eds.) Clonality in plant communities. Special Features in Vegetation Science 11, Opulus Press, Uppsala, Sweden , pp. 111-127. pdf
Oborny, B. & Podani, J. (1996) Preface to the volume „Clonality in plant communities”. Special Features in Vegetation Science 11, Opulus Press, Uppsala, Sweden, p.1.
Oborny, B. (1988) Allelopathic compounds in weed and crop species. Examples for the allelopathic inhibition of germination or growth (in Hungarian). In: Hajas & Rázsó (eds.) Agriculture in data, MÉM Kiadvány, Budapest.
Editorship in books
Pásztor, E. & Oborny, B. (eds.) (2007) Ecology (in Hungarian) National Textbook Publishing House, Budapest.
Oborny, B. (ed.) (2001) Diversity - in memoriam Pál Juhász-Nagy (in Hungarian). MTA, Budapest.
Editorship in conference proceedings and abstract volumes
Oborny, B. & Podani, J. (eds.) (1996) Clonality in plant communities. Special Features in Vegetation Science 11. Opulus Press, Uppsala, Sweden. pdf
Oborny, B., De Kroon, H. & Van Groenendael, J. (eds.) (1995) “The role of clonality in plant communities” - Abstracts of the 4th International Clonal Plant Workshop, Press of the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Other publications
Oborny, B. (2018) Critical thresholds and collapses - Why is it so difficult to predict the ecological effects of environmental changes? (in Hungarian). Természet Világa 2018(2): 69-73. pdf
Oborny, B. (2017) Évgyűrűk - Emlékezés Fekete Gáborra (in Hungarian). Kitaibelia 22(2): 249-252. pdf
Oborny, B. (2008) Corpora in vivo: morphogenesis and plasticity in living organisms. Catalogue of the Corpora in Si(gh)te Project at the 11th Biennale of Architecture in Venice. pdf html
Oborny, B. (2006) Chances and rules - How to play with an ant colony? (in Hungarian). B XI(6): 90-99 (2006). pdf
Szvetelszky, Zs., Oborny, B. & Kertész, M. (2004) Homo labilis (in Hungarian). Információs Társadalom IV(3-4): 129-143. pdf