Who we are?

   We develop predictive models of how species’ life history traits interact with ecological and spatial constraints to modulate local persistence or expansion of plant populations. To understand the spatial persistence strategies in plants, we employ tools ranging from plant demography modelling to comparative macroecological analyses of plant traits and functional groups. We work with multiple plant species at local, landscape and geographic scales in diverse habitats of Eurasia.

   While tackling fundamental questions in ecology, our research has applications in biodiversity conservation and land use planning. Plants support the very survival of humans. They provide invaluable ecosystem services such as food, pastures for livestock, places for recreation and wellbeing, water regulation, carbon sequestration and flood prevention. To safeguard these ecosystem services, we provide conservation managers robust ecological models able to identify species vulnerable or resistant to deteriorating habitat conditions and to the spatial rearrangement of habitats due to human land use and climatic changes. 

Where we are?

Department of Botany, Buda Campus

Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences

1118 Budapest, Villányi Street 29-43

Building "A", Room 113

Hungary

Contact

E_mail: Csergo.Anna.Maria(at)uni-mate.hu