2025
Fürjes-Mikó Á, Csősz S, Paulin M J, Csóka G 2025 The Role of Red Wood Ants (Formica rufa Species Group) in Central European Forest Ecosystems—A Literature Review. Insects, 16: 518 doi: 10.3390/insects16050518
Halpern B, Vörös J, Mc Cartney A. M., Formenti G, Mouton A 2025 The genome sequence of the Hungarian meadow viper, Vipera ursinii rakosiensis (Méhely, 1893). Wellcome Open Research 9: 404 doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22694.2.
Hegyi G, Laczi M, Szabó Gy, Kötél D, Sarkadi F, Török J 2025 Experimental data suggest between population reversal in the condition dependence of two sexually selected traits. Scientific Reports, 15: 4264. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-88720-y
Wagner H C, Cordonnier M, Kaufmann B, Kiran K, Karaman C, Schultz R, Seifert B, Csősz S 2025 Delineation of species of the Tetramorium caespitum complex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Anatolia with a diagnosis of related species-complexes. ZooKeys 1234: 309-339. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1234.142963
Horváth G, Herczeg D, Kovács B, Pétek Á, Kaczur B, Herczeg G 2025 Microplastic uptake with food increases risk-taking of a wide-spread decomposer, the common pill bug Armadillidium vulgare. Environmental Pollution, 126220. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126220
Jablonszky M, Laczi M, Nagy G, Tóth Z, Zsebők S, Garamszegi L Zs 2025 Close males sing with dissimilar minimum frequency and repertoire size in a wild passerine. Ecology and Evolution, 15: e71044. doi: 10.1002/ece3.71044
Kásler A, Ujszegi J, Herczeg D, Holly D, Mikó Z, Hettyey A 2025 Heated Aquatic Shelters Reduce Infection Intensity but Not Prevalence of a Fungal Pathogen in Common Toad Tadpoles. Animal Conservation doi: 10.1111/acv.70012
Krenhardt K, Barta K, Jablonszky M, Laczi M, Nagy G, Zsebők S, Garamszegi L Z 2025 Birdsong as an indicator of habitat structure and quality. Ecology and Evolution 15: e715110. doi: 10.1002/ece3.71510
Laczi M, Herczeg G, Sarkadi F, Gyarmathy H, Herényi M, Jablonszky M, Kőmüves G, Markó G, Nagy G, Rosivall B, Szabó Gy, Török J, Hegyi G 2025 Nestling plumage colour variation in a sexually dichromatic hole-nesting passerine bird – potential functions and mechanisms. Ecology and Evolution, 15: e71152. doi: 10.1002/ece3.71152
László M, Laczi M, Szövényi G 2025 Conservation on the edge: unravelling critical drivers behind the decline of a mountain grasshopper’s marginal populations. Journal of Insect Conservation 29: 44. doi: 0.1007/s10841-025-00682-8
Mészáros B, Jordán L, Molnár O, Török J 2025 Impact of food availability on the thermal performance curves of male European green lizards (Lacerta viridis). Oecologia 207: 57. doi: 10.1007/s00442-025-05699-z
Mori N, Vehovar Ž, Brad T, Balázs G, Englisch C, Fišer C, Gaviria S, Gottstein S, Griebler C, Kenesz M, Knight LRFD, Malard F, Mammola S, Marmonier P, Martínez A, Zagmajster M 2025 A Comprehensive Occurrence Dataset for European Ostracoda Inhabiting Groundwater and Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems. Global Ecolology and Biogeography 34: e70065.doi: 10.1111/geb.70065
Růžičková J, Ódor P, Magura T, Elek Z 2025 Species- and trait-based responses of carabids to rotation and closer-to-nature forestry in a temperate forest under changing climate. Insect Conservation and Diversity doi: 10.1111/icad.12849
Schifani E, Alicata A, Prebus M M, Csősz S 2025 Integrative Description of Temnothorax siculus sp. n.: A New Ant Species from Sicily, Italy (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Diversity 17(4): 294. doi: 10.3390/d17040294
Schneider Z, Móczár B, Klein Á, Laczi M, Mátics R 2025 Fatal traps in western barn owls’ (Tyto alba) nesting sites: the consequence of improper building modification. Ecology and Evolution 15: e71409. doi: 10.1002/ece3.71409
Vilizzi L, Piria M, Herczeg G, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Bakiu R,Boggero A, Chaichana R, Dashinov D, De Zoysa M, Gilles Jr. AS, Goulletquer P. et al 2025 Questionnaire improvements in second-generation, multilingual decision support tools for invasion risk screening of non-native taxa. Management of Biological Invasions 16(1): 33–44. doi: 10.3391/mbi.2025.16.1.03
Vilizzi L, Piria M, Pietraszewski D, Yoğurtçuoğlu B, Almeida D, Al-Wazza, Z, Atique U, Boggero A, Duniš L, Goulletquer P, Herczeg G. et al 2025 To be, or not to be, a non-native species in non-English languages:
gauging terminological consensus amongst invasion biologists. Management of Biological Invasions 16(1): 15–31. 1, doi: 10.3391/mbi.2025.16.1.02
Zsebők S, Vaskuti É, Laczi M, Nagy G, Jablonszky M, Barta K A, Canal D, Derégnaucourt S, Garamszegi L Zs 2025 Context-dependent organization of birdsong: experimental evidence from the collared flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis. Animal Behaviour 219: 123026. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.11.004
2024
Báthori F, Seifert B, Heinze J, Kiran K, Karaman C, Csősz S 2024 Taxonomy of the Palearctic socially parasitic Temnothorax (Myrmoxenus) ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 19(10): e0308712. 10.1371/journal.pone.0308712
Báthori F, Heinze J, Trindl A, Seifert B, Herczeg G, Csősz S 2023 Host-switching events are not always the driver of speciation in social parasites: a case study in Temnothorax (Myrmoxenus) ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) Journal of Zoology 322: 221–231, doi: 10.1111/jzo.13140
Báthori F, Herczeg G, Vilizzi L, Jégh T, Kakas C, Petrovics M, Csősz S 2024 A survey and risk screening of non-native ant species colonising greenhouses in Hungary. Biological Invasions doi: 10.1007/s10530-023-03227-9
Biró A, Balázs G, Fišer Ž, Fišer C, Horváth G, Herczeg G 2024 From darkness to twilight: Morphological divergence between cave and surface-subterranean ecotone Niphargus species. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e70061. doi: 10.1002/ece3.70061
Blanvillain G, Lorch JM, Joudrier N, Bury S, Cuenot T, Franzen M, Martínez-Freiría F, Guiller G, Halpern B, Kolanek A, Kurek K, Lourdais O, Michon A, Musilová R, Schweiger S, Szulc B, Ursenbacher S, Zinenko O, Hovt JR 2024 Contribution of host species and pathogen clade to snake fungal disease hotspots in Europe. Communications Biology 7:440, doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-06092-x
Csősz S, Alicata A, Báthori F, Galkowski C, Schifani E, Yusupov Z, Herczeg G, Prebus MM 2024 Integrative taxonomy reveals inflated biodiversity in the European Temnothorax unifasciatus complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zoologica Scripta 00, 1–17. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12690
Csősz S, Schifani E, Seifert B, Alicata A, Prebus MM 2024 A new species of yellow acorn ant discovered in Italy via integrative taxonomy (Temnothorax luteus-complex, Formicidae). Evolutionary Systematics 8(2), 183-197. 10.3897/evolsyst.8.124557
Dufresnes C, Ghielmi S, Halpern B, Martínez-Freiría F, Meb K, Jelić D, Crnobrnja-Isailović J, Gipper S, Jablonski S, Joger U, Laddaga L, Petrovan S, Tomović L, Vörös J, İğci N, Kariş M, Zinenko O, Ursenbacher S 2024 Phylogenomic insights into the diversity and evolution of Palearctic vipers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 197:108095, doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108095
Gómez K, Csősz S, Jégh T, Keller RA 2024 Aenictus brutus sp. nov., a new species of the army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve Forest (Liberia). Belgian Journal of Entomology 148: 1–9.
Hegyi G, Laczi M, Wacha A, Gyarmathy H, Klein Á, Rosivall B, Sarkadi F, Szabó Gy, Török J 2024 Prediction of individual differences in non-iridescent structural plumage colour from nanostructural periodicity and regularity. Royal Society Open Science 11(6), doi: 10.1098/rsos.231804
Herczeg D, Horváth G, Bókony V, Herczeg G, Kásler A, Holly D, Mikó Zs, Ujhegyi N, Ujszegi J, Papp T, Hettyey A 2024 Juvenile agile frogs spatially avoid ranavirus-infected conspecifics. Scientific Reports 14, 23945. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-74575-2
Horváth G, Sos T, Bóné G, Lőrincz EC, Pap PL, Herczeg G 2024 Integrating behavioural thermoregulatory strategy into the animal personality framework using the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara as a model. Scientific Reports 14: 14200. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-64305-z
Jablonszky M, Canal D, Hegyi G, Herényi M, Laczi M, Markó G, Nagy G, Rosivall B, Szöllősi E, Török J, Garamszegi L Z 2024 The estimation of additive genetic variance of body size in a wild passerine is sensitive to the method used to estimate relatedness among the individuals. Ecology and Evolution doi:10.1002/ece3.10981
Laczi M, Sarkadi F, Herényi M, Nagy G, Hegyi G, Jablonszky M, Könczey R, Krenhardt K, Markó G, Rosivall B, Szász E, Szöllősi E, Tóth L, Zsebők S, Török J 2024 Responses in the breeding parameters of the collared flycatcher to the changing climate. Science of the Total Environment 926:171945. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171945
Lapeva-Gjonova A, Csősz S, Mifsud D 2024 Further records of social parasitic ants in Europe and review of the Bulgarian species. Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e123575. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e123575
Premate E, Fišer Ž, Biró A, Copilaş-Ciocianu D, Fromhage L, Jennions M, Borko Š, Herczeg G, Balázs G, Kralj-Fišer S, Fišer C 2024 Sexual dimorphism in subterranean amphipod crustaceans covaries with subterranean habitat type. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 37: 487–500. doi: 10.1093/jeb/voae032
Ratkai B, Bán KA, Frei K, Horváth G, Li G, Lőrincz Á, Lőrinczi G, Pécsy F, Bátori Z, Maák IE 2024 Climate microrefugia promote intraspecific trait variability of the Palaearctic ant species Myrmica ruginodis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 34: 159-171. doi: 10.25849/myrmecol.news_034:159
Růžičková J, Elek Z 2024 Academic inbreeding reduces the scientific performance of ecologists. Biologia: 79: 2505–2513. doi: 10.1007/s11756-024-01741-2
Růžičková J, Harnos A, Elek Z 2024 Small canopy gaps do not affect the predation pressure on large ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in a managed forest. European Journal of Entomology 121: 369-373. doi: 10.14411/eje.2024.039
Samu F, Szita É, Simon J, Cséplő M, Botos E, Pertics B, Růžičková J, Gerstenbrand R, Rakszegi M, Elek Z, Vidab G, Tholt G 2024. Cereal leaf beetle (Oulema spp.) damage reduces yield and is more severe when natural enemy action is prevented. Crop Protection 185: 106893, doi: 10.1016/j.cropro.2024.106893
Takáts K, Csősz S, Szövényi G, Katona G, Domagała PJ, Herczeg G 2024 From 20 to 2? Landmark-based geometric morphometrics reveal negligible wing-shape divergence between 20 subspecies of the Apollo butterfly, Parnassius apollo (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae), in the Carpatho-Pannonian region. Journal of Insect Conservation doi: 10.1007/s10841-024-00602-2
Vilizzi L, Piria M, Pietraszewski D, Giannetto D, Flory S L, Herczeg G, Sermenli H B, Britvec M, Jukoniene I, Petrulaitis L, Vitasović-Kosić I, Almeida D, Al-Wazzan Z, Bakiu R, Boggero A, Chaichana R, Dashinov D, De Zoysa M, Gilles A S, Goulletquer P, Interesove E, Kopecký O, Koutsikos N, Koyama A, Kristan P, Li S et al. 2024 Development and application of a second-generation multilingual tool for invasion risk screening of non-native terrestrial plants. Science of The Total Environment doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170475
2023
Ahmed D A, Beidas A, Petrovskii S V, Bailey J D, Bonsall M B, Hood A SC, Byers J A, Hudgins E J, Russell J C, Růžičková J, Bodey T W, Renault D, Bonnaud E, Haubrock P J, Soto I, Haase P 2023. Simulating capture efficiency of pitfall traps based on sampling strategy and the movement of ground-dwelling arthropods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14: 2827–2843. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.14174
Balázs G, Borko Š, Angyal D, Zakšek V, Biró A, Fišer C, Herczeg G 2023 Not the Last Piece of the Puzzle: Niphargus Phylogeny in Hungary Diversity 15, 2: 223.doi: 10.3390/d15020223
Berisha H, Horváth G, Fišer Ž, Balázs G, Fišer C, Herczeg G 2023. Sex-dependent increase of movement activity in the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus following adaptation to a predator-free cave habitat. Current Zoology. 69, 418–425. doi: 0.1093/cz/zoac063
Csősz S, Báthori F, Rádai Z, Herczeg G, Fisher BL 2023. Comparing ant morphology measurements from microscope and online AntWeb. org 2D z‐stacked images. Ecology and Evolution 13(3):e9897. doi: 10.1002/ece3.9897
Csősz S, Loss AC, Fisher BL 2023. Exploring the diversity of the Malagasy Ponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) fauna via integrative taxonomy. Organisms Diversity and Evolution doi:10.1007/s13127-023-00610-1
Csősz S, Seifert B, László M, Yusupov ZM, Herczeg G 2023 Broadly sympatric occurrence of two thief ant species Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798) and S. juliae (Arakelian, 1991) in the East European Pontic-Caspian region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) is disclosed. ZooKeys 1187: 189-222. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1187.105866
Halupka L, Arlt D, Tolvanen J, Millon A, Bize P, Adamík P, Albert P, Arendt W J, Artemyev A V, Baglione V, Bańbura J, Bańbura M, Barba M, Barrett R T, Becker P H, Belskii e, Bolton M, Bowers E K, Bried J, Brouwer L, Bukacińska M, Bukacińska D, Bulluck L, Carsten K F, Catry I, Charter M. Török J et al 2023 The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.220838912
Hegyi G, Laczi M, Szabó G, Sarkadi F, Török J 2023 Plumage color degradation indicates reproductive effort: an experiment. Scientific Reports 13:18770. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-45348-0
Herczeg D, Holly D, Kásler A, Bókony V, Papp T, Takács-Vágó H, Ujszegi J, Hettyey A 2023a Amphibian larvae benefit from a warm environment under simultaneous threat from chytridiomycosis and ranavirosis Oikos doi: 10.1111/oik.09953
Herczeg D, Palomar G, Zieliński P, Van-reimsdijk I, Babik W, Dankovics R, Halpern B, Cvijanović M, Vörös J 2023b Genomic analysis reveals complex population structure within the smooth newt, Lissotriton vulgaris in Central Europe. Ecology and Evolution doi: 13: e10478. doi: 10.1002/ece3.10478
Herczeg G, Balázs G, Biró A, Fiser Z, Kralj-Fiser S, Fiser C 2023. Island and Rensch’s rules do not apply to cave vs. surface populations of Asellus aquaticus. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1155261. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1155261
Horváth G, Garamszegi L Z, Herczeg G 2023. Phylogenetic meta-analysis reveals system-specific behavioural type–behavioural predictability correlations. Royal Society Open Science. 10: 230303. doi: 10.1098/rsos.230303
Horváth G, Kerekes K, Nyitrai V, Balázs G, Berisha H, Herczeg G 2023. Exploratory behaviour divergence between surface populations, cave colonists and a cave population in the water louse, Asellus aquaticus. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology. 77:15. doi: 10.1007/s00265-022-03288-1
Jablonszky M, Canal D, Hegyi G, Herényi M, Laczi M, Lao O, Markó G, Nagy G, Rosivall B, Szász E, Török J, Zsebők S, Garamszegi LZ 2022 Estimating heritability of song considering within-individual variation in a wild songbird: the collared flycatcher. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:975687. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.975687
Kásler A, Holly D, Herczeg D, Ujszegi J, Hettyey A 2023 Chytridiomycosis and climate change: exposure to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and mild winter conditions do not increase mortality in juvenile agile frogs during hibernation. Animal Conservation 26(5): 654-662. doi: 10.1111/acv.12851
Laczi M, Herczeg G, Szabó G, Gyarmathy H, Sarkadi F, Török J, Hegyi G 2023 The great tit abdominal stripe contains a sexually dichromatic colour patch hidden from the human eye. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1263974. doi: 103389/fevo.2023.1263974
Orou N, Csősz S, Arnan X, Pol RG, Arthofer W, Schlick-Steiner BC, Steiner FM 2023. Messor erwini sp. n., a hitherto cryptic harvester ant in the Iberian Peninsula. Zoologischer Anzeiger 307:36-53. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2023.09.001
Roth S, Calva O, Kennedy J, Reinhardt K 2023. Primicimex cavernas Barber 1941 (Heteroptera: Comicidad): a rare parasite on a very abundant host. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 1-5. doi: 10.1111/icad.12691
Růžičková J, Elek Z 2023. Beetles on the move: not-just-a-technical review of beetles’ radio-tracking. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 171: 82–93. doi: 10.1111/eea.13260
Samu F, Elek Z, Růžičková J, Botos E, Kovács B, Ódor P 2023. Can gap-cutting help to preserve forest spider communities? Diversity 15: 240. doi: 10.3390/d15020240
2022
Jablonszky M, Canal D, Hegyi G, Herényi M, Laczi M, Lao O, Markó G, Nagy G, Rosivall B, Szász E, Török J, Zsebők S, Garamszegi LZS 2022 Estimating heritability of song considering within-individual variance in a wild songbird: The collared flycatcher. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2022.975687
Laczi M, Jablonszky M, Markó G, Nagy G, Szabó Gy, Zsebők S, Török J, Hegyi G 2022 White plumage color as an honest indicator: feather macrostructure links reflectance with reproductive effort and success. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76:125. doi: 10.1007/s00265-022-03238-x
Lapeva-Gjonova A, Csősz S, Báthori F 2022. Fungi Associated with Messor Ants on the Balkan Peninsula: First Biogeographical Data. Diversity 2022, 14, 1132. doi:10.3390/d14121132