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).
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
Vári, Á., VR Tóth (2017): Quantifying macrophyte colonisation strategies - A field experiment in a shallow lake (Lake Balaton, Hungary). Aquatic Botany 136, 56-60.
2014
Zlinszky András, Schroiff Anke, Kania Adam, Deák Balázs, Mücke Werner, Vári Ágnes, Székely Balázs, Pfeifer Norbert (2014): Categorizing Grassland Vegetation with Full-Waveform Airborne Laser Scanning: A Feasibility Study for Detecting Natura 2000 Habitat Types. Remote Sensing 6, 8056-8087.
2013
Vári Ágnes (2013): Colonisation by fragments in six common aquatic macrophyte species. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 183 (1): pp. 15-26.
2010
Vári Ágnes, Tóth Viktor, Csontos Péter (2010): Comparing the morphology of Potamogeton perfoliatus L. along environmental gradients in Lake Balaton. Annales de Limnologie 46 (2): 111-119.
Projects:
2020 - 2024 Analysing spatial patterns of ecosystem services and condition under anthropogenic pressure and climate change (OTKA 134329)
2016 - 2020 Közösségi jelentőségű természeti értékek hosszú távú megőrzését és fejlesztését, valamint az EU Biológiai Sokféleség Startégia 2020 célkitűzéseinek hazai szintű megvalósítását megalapozó stratégiai vizsgálatok (KEHOP-4.3.0-VEKOP-15-2016-00001 - NÖSZTÉP, ZÖLDINFRA - Török Katalin, PhD)
2016 - 2020 Ökoszisztémák fenntartható működtetése – felfedezésekkel a klímaváltozás, a tájhasználat és az inváziók hatásának mérsékléséért (GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00019 - ÖSZ-GINOP - Báldi András, az MTA doktora)
2015 - 2016 Ökoszisztéma szolgáltatások felmérése és térképezése a Nyárád és a Kis-Küküllő menti Natura 2000 területeken (Niraj-MAES - Czúcz Bálint)
2012 - 2017 OPErationalisatioN of Natural capital and EcoSystem Services: from concepts to real-world applications (2012-2017) (OpenNESS EU FP7 - Czúcz Bálint)
Contact:
email: vari.agnes[at]ecolres.hu