Sándor PIROSS
research fellow
Community assembly in grassland ecosystems: We study how local and landscape-scale effects govern community assembly and how we can improve ecosystem services and local conservation measures.
Previous topics:
Topology and dynamics of biological networks: In the Centre for Ecological Research, We investigated how well simple analyses can identify key species and important direct and indirect interactions.
Ecology and evolution of avian lice: In collaboration with the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, we investigated the ecology and evolution of bird lice. We focused on vertical transmission and the evolution of louse body size and sexual size dimorphism.
Conservation biology and ecology of Red-footed Falcons: In collaboration with BirdLife Hungary, we investigated a wide range of topics concerning the ecology and conservation of Red-footed Falcons (Falco vespertinus).
Selected publications:
2024
Bihaly, Á.D., Piross, I.S., Pellaton, R., Szigeti, V., Somay, L., Vajna, F., Soltész, Z., Báldi, A., Sárospataki, M., Kovács-Hostyánszki, A. (2024): Landscape-wide floral resource deficit enhances the importance of diverse wildflower plantings for pollinators in farmlands - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 367: 108984
2022
Kovács-Hostyánszki, A., Piross, I.S., Shebl, M.A. 2022. Non-native plant species integrate well into plant-pollinator networks in a diverse man-made flowering plant community Urban Ecosystems, Paper 01242. 12 p.
2021
Móréh Á., Endrédi A., Piross I. S., Jordán F. (2021): Topology of additive pairwise effects in food webs Ecological modelling 440: pp. 109414
2020
Piross IS, Solt Sz, Horváth É, Kotymán L, Palatitz P, Bertók P, Szabó K, Vili N, Vas Z, Rózsa L, Harnos A & Fehérvári P 9 (2020): Sex-dependent changes in the louse abundance of red-footed falcons (Falco vespertinus) Parasitol Res. 2020 119 (4):1327-1335.
Piross IS, Siliwal M, Kumar RS, Palatitz P, Solt Sz, Borbáth P, Vili N, Magonyi N, Vas Z, Rózsa L, Harnos A & Fehérvári P11 (2020): Sex interacts with age-dependent change in the abundance of lice-infesting Amur Falcons (Falco amurensis) Parasitol Res. 2020 119 (8):2579-2585.
2019
Piross I. S., Harnos A., Rózsa L. (2019): Rensch’s rule in avian lice: contradictory allometric trends for sexual size dimorphism Scientific Reports 9(1): p. 7908
2018
Piross I. S., Saliga R., Solt Sz., Horváth É., Kotymán L., Harnos A., Rózsa L., Palatitz P., Fehérvári P. (2018): The relationship of louse infestation and clutch size in the Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) Magyar Állatorvosok Lapja 140 pp. 745-753. , 9 p.
Projects:
2018 - 2022 Developing SUstainable PERmanent Grassland systems and policies (Super-G - Báldi András, az MTA doktora)
Contact:
email: piross.sandor[at]ecolres.hu