Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group

Ágnes Vári, PhD

research fellow

We assess and map ecosystem services (ES), based on stakeholder involvement and participatory methods, integrating local expert knowledge into our models. We also use statistic analysis and GIS for building the ES models. Part of our work is regional, but we also have some assessments at national scale. Assessing ecosystem conditions is an important element within our work. My personal focus is on water related ecosystems and water related functions (hydrologic ES).

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Selected publications:

2025

Bagstad, K. J., Balbi, S., Adamo, G., Athanasiadis, I. N., Affinito, F., Willcock, S., Magrach, A., Hayashi, K., Harmacková, Z. V., Niamir, A., Smets, B., Buchhorn, M., Drakou, E. G., Alfieri, A., Edens, B., Morales, L. G., Vári, Á., Sanz, M-J. & Villa, F. (2025): Interoperability for ecosystem service assessments: Why, how, who, and for whom? - Ecosystem Services 72: 101705
Vári, Á., Gonzalez, A. & Bennett, E. M. (2025): Monitor social-ecological systems to achieve global goals for biodiversity and nature's contributions to people - BioScience

2024

Duarte, G. T., Schuster, R., Edwards, M., Dallaire, C. O., Vári, Á., Mitchell, M. G. E. (2024): Flood prevention benefits provided by Canadian natural ecosystems - Ecosystem Services 70: 101670
Vári, Á., Adamescu, C.M., Balzan, M., Gocheva, K., Götzl, M., Grunewald, K., Inácio, M., Linder, M., Ogiang-Ndong, G., Pereira, P., Santos-Martin, F., Sieber, I., Stepniewska, M., Tanács, E., Termansen, M., Tromeur, E., Vackárova, D. & Czúcz, B. (2024): National mapping and assessment of ecosystem services projects in Europe - Participants' experiences, state of the art and lessons learned. Ecosystem Services, 65: 101592

2022

Pinke Zs., Vári Á., Tormáné Kovács E. (2022): Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosyste services - Some methodological challenges Ecosystem Services 56:101443
Tanács, E., Bede-Fazekas, Á., Csecserits, A., Kisné Fodor, L., Pásztor L., Somodi, I., Standovár, T., Zlinszky, Z., Zsembery, Z., Vári, Á. (2022): Assessing ecosystem condition at the national level in Hungary - indicators, approaches, challenges One Ecosystem 7: e81543
Vári Á., Podschun S.A., Erős T., Hein T., Pataki B., Ioja I-C., Adamescu C.M., Gerhardt A., Gruber T., Dedic A., Ciric M., Gavrilovic B., Báldi A. (2022): Freshwater systems and ecosystem services: Challenges and chances for cross-fertilization of disciplines Ambio, 51: 135-151.

2021

Kuslits B., Vári Á., Tanács E., Aszalós R., Drasovean, A., Buchriegler, R., Laufer Zs., Krsic, D., Milanovic, R., Arany I. (2021): Ecosystem services becoming political: How ecological processes shape local resource-management networks, Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:635988

2020

Báldi A., Vári Á. (2020): Freshwater ecosystems: research, policy and applications, Biologia Futura 71: 333-336
Vári, Á., Arany, I., Kalóczkai, Á., Kelemen, K., Papp, J., & Czúcz, B. (2020). Berries, greens, and medicinal herbs—Mapping and assessing wild plants as an ecosystem service in Transylvania (Romania). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 16(1), 13.
Czúcz B., Haines-Young R., Kiss M., Berecki K., Kertész M., Vári Á., Potschin-Young M., Arany I. (2020): Ecosystem service indicators along the cascade: How do assessment and mapping studies position their indicators? Ecological Indicators 118

2017