László Somay

assistant research fellow

Functional and species composition, annual dynamics and esosystem services of dung beetle communities in hungarian grasslands and forests

MTMT

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

2023

Noriega, J.A., Hortal, J., deCastro-Arrazola, I. ... Somay, L. ... Santos, A.M.C. (2023): Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification. Nature Communications 14: 8070

2022

Báldi A., Pellaton, R., Bihaly Á. D., Szigeti V., Lellei-Kovács E., Máté A., Sárospataki M., Soltész Z., Somay L. & Kovács-Hostyánszki A. (2022): Improving ecosystem services in farmlands: beginning of a long-term ecological study with restored flower-rich grasslands Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 8: 1

2021

Csecserits A., Halassy M., Lhotsky B., Rédei T., Somay L., Botta-Dukát Z. (2021): Changing assembly rules during secondary succession: evidence for non-random patterns Basic and Applied Ecology 52. pp. 46-56.
Somay L, Szigeti V, Boros G, Ádám R, Báldi A. (2021): Wood Pastures: A Transitional Habitat between Forests and Pastures for Dung Beetle Assemblages. Forests. 2021; 12(1):25.

2020

Kovacs-Hostyánszki A., Soltész Z., Szigeti V., Somay L., Báldi A. (2020): Non-rotational set-aside fields improve reproductive success of cavity-nesting bees and wasps at the landscape scale, but have no effect on other wild bees and hoverflies in mid-summer, Agriculture, Ecosystem & Environment, 308: 107255
Ónodi G., Kertész M., Lengyel A., Pándi I., Somay L., Szitár K., Kröel-Dulay Gy. (2020): The effect of woody plant encroachment and wildfire on plant species richness and composition: Temporal changes in a forest-steppe mosaic, Applied Vegetation Science,

2019

Milotić T., Baltzinger C., Eichberg C., Eycott A.E., Heurich M., Müller J., Noriega J.A., Menendez R., Stadler J., Ádám R., Bargmann T., Bilger I., Buse J., Calatayud J., Ciubuc C., Boros G., Jay-Robert P., Kruus M., Merivee E., Miessen G., Must A., Ardali E., Preda E., Rahimi I., Rohwedder D., Rose R., Slade E.M., Somay L., Tahmasebi P., Ziani S., Hoffmann M. (2019): Functionally richer communities improve ecosystem functioning: Dung removal and secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles in the Western Palaearctic Journal of Biogeography 46 : 1 pp. 70-82.

2018

Kőrösi Á, Markó V, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Somay L, Varga Á, Elek Z, Boreux V, Klein A, Földesi R, Báldi A. (2018): Climate-induced phenological shift of apple trees has diverse effects on pollinators, herbivores and natural enemies PeerJ 6:e5269

2017

Markó V, Elek Z, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Kőrösi Á, Somay L, Földesi R, Varga A, Iván A, Báldi A (2017): Landscapes, orchards, pesticides–abundance of beetles (Coleoptera) in apple orchards along pesticide toxicity and landscape complexity gradients Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 247: pp. 246-254

2016

Földesi, Rita; Kovács-Hostyánszki, Anikó; Kőrösi, Ádám; Somay, László; Elek, Zoltan; Marko, Viktor; Sárospataki, Miklós; Bakos, Réka; Varga, Ákos; Nyisztor, Katinka; Báldi, András (2016): Relationships between wild bees, hoverflies and pollination success in apple orchards with different landscape contexts Agricultural and Forest Entomology 18: 68-75
Szitár K, Ónodi G, Somay L, Pándi I, Kucs P, Kröel-Dulay G (2016): Contrasting effects of land use legacies on grassland restoration in burnt pine plantations BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 201: pp. 356-362. (2016)

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Contact:

email: somay.laszlo[at]ecolres.hu