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Horváth, Ferenc, PhD

institute engineer

Contact:
horvath.ferenc@ecolres.hu
+36 30 5279625

Related link(s):

Forest Reserve Programme

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Main profile in keywords:
forest reserve monitoring, forest ecology, old-growth forests, stand structure & dynamic

Long term research of strict forest reserves, managing standard field surveys.

Methodology: methodological research and development on habitat mapping and evaluation; harmonizing methods of survey and evaluation of forest structure and dynamic for long term forest reserve research, particularly monitoring of stand structure, regeneration and shrub layer. Monitoring methodology of Natura 2000 forest habitats; development of quantitative ecosystem service indicators.

Development, integration and management of information systems for ecology, botany and nature conservation: FLÓRA 1.2, CoenoDAT, CORINE Biotopes, MÉTA, ER HTV databases and related applications. Developing and setting up Econinformatics Laboratory of MTA ÖK. Developing web services and workflows related to Biome-BGC ecosystem modelling.

Development and maintenance of home pages:
Forest Reserve Programme (www.erdorezervatum.hu/en),
MÉTA (www.novenyzetiterkep.hu)

Selected publications

Szegleti Zsófia; Vig Ákos; Ortmann-Ajkai Adrienne; Szabó Gábor; Zimmermann Zita; Horváth Ferenc. Repeated stand structure inventory dataset in long abandoned deciduous forest reserves in Hungary DATA IN BRIEF, 47 Paper: 108929 (2023)
2023

Sabatini, FM; Burrascano, S; Keeton, WS; Levers, C; Lindner, M; Pötzschner, F; Verkerk, PJ; Bauhus, J; Buchwald, E; Chaskovsky, O; Debaive, N; Horváth, F; Garbarino, M; Grigoriadis, N; Lombardi, F; Marques, Duarte I; Meyer, P; Midteng, R; Mikac, S; Mikoláš, M; Motta, R; Mozgeris, G; Nunes, L; Panayotov, M; Ódor, Péter; Ruete, A; Simovski, B; Stillhard, J; Svoboda, M; Szwagrzyk, J; Tikkanen, O-P; Volosyanchuk, R; Vrska, T; Zlatanov, T; Kuemmerle, T. Where are Europe’s last primary forests? DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS. 24: 1426-1439
2018

Sabatini, Francesco Mari; Bluhm, Hendrik; Kun, Zoltan; Aksenov, Dmitry; Atauri, Jose A.; Buchwald, Erik; Burrascano, Sabina; Cateau, Eugenie; Diku, Abdulla; Duarte, Ines Marques; Fernandez, Lopez Angel B.; Garbarino, Matteo; Grigoriadis, Nikolaos; Horvath, Ferenc; Keren, Srdan; Kis, Alen; Kraut, Ann; Ibisch, Pierre L.; Larrieu, Laurent; Lombardi, Fabio; Matovic, Bratislav; Melu, Radu Nicolae; Meyer, Peter; Midteng, Rein; Mikac, Stjepan; Mikolas, Martin; Mozgeris, Gintautas; Panayotov, Momchil; Pisek, Rok; Nunes, Leonia; Ruete, Alejandro; Schickhofer, Matthias; Simovski, Bojan; Stillhard, Jonas; Stojanovic, Dejan; Szwagrzyk, Jerzy; Tikkanen, Olli-Pekka; Toromani, Elvin; Volosyanchuk, Roman; Vrska, Tomas; Waldherr, Marcus; Yermokhin, Maxim; Zlatanov, Tzvetan; Zagidullina, Asiya; Kuemmerle, Tobias. European primary forest database v2.0 SCIENTIFIC DATA. 8: -
2021

Demeter, László; Molnár, Ábel Péter; Öllerer, Kinga; Csóka, György; Kiš, Alen; Vadász, Csaba; Horváth, Ferenc; Molnár, Zsolt. Rethinking the natural regeneration failure of pedunculate oak: The pathogen mildew hypothesis BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION. 253, Paper: 108928 (2021)
2021

Demeter, László; Bede-Fazekas, Ákos; Molnár, Zsolt; Csicsek, Gábor; Ortmann-Ajkai, Adrienne; Varga, Anna; Molnár, Ábel; Horváth, Ferenc. The legacy of management approaches and abandonment on old-growth attributes in hardwood floodplain forests in the Pannonian Ecoregion EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH. 139: 595-610
2020