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Overview

Balázs Deák is affiliated with the University of Debrecen in Hungary and specializes in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology

Deák has contributed to several recent papers, some of which are:

  • Linking environmental heterogeneity and plant diversity: The ecological role of small natural features in homogeneous landscapes, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats, 2021, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Public attitudes toward biodiversity-friendly greenspace management in Europe, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands, 2022, Science

The frequent publication venues for Deák include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Global Ecology and Conservation

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Deák's research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Orsolya Valkó
  • Réka Kiss
  • Laura Godó
  • Péter Török
  • András Kelemen

Best Publications

  • Grassland restoration on former croplands in Europe: an assessment of applicability of techniques and costs

    Péter Török;Enikő Vida;Balázs Deák;Szabolcs Lengyel

  • Grazing vs. mowing: A meta-analysis of biodiversity benefits for grassland management

    Malin Tälle;Balázs Deák;Peter Poschlod;Orsolya Valkó

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts.

    Nancy Shackelford;Nancy Shackelford;Gustavo B. Paterno;Gustavo B. Paterno;Daniel E. Winkler;Todd E. Erickson

  • Livestock Type is More Crucial Than Grazing Intensity: Traditional Cattle and Sheep Grazing in Short‐Grass Steppes

    Edina Tóth;Balázs Deák;Orsolya Valkó;András Kelemen

  • Review: Prospects and limitations of prescribed burning as a management tool in European grasslands

    Orsolya Valkó;Péter Török;Balázs Deák;Béla Tóthmérész

  • Restoring grassland biodiversity: Sowing low-diversity seed mixtures can lead to rapid favourable changes

    Péter Török;Balázs Deák;Enikő Vida;Orsolya Valkó

  • Cultural monuments and nature conservation: a review of the role of kurgans in the conservation and restoration of steppe vegetation

    Balázs Deák;Béla Tóthmérész;Orsolya Valkó;Barbara Sudnik-Wójcikowska

  • Classification of Herbaceous Vegetation Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery

    Péter Burai;Balázs Deák;Orsolya Valkó;Tamás Tomor

  • Traditional Cattle Grazing in a Mosaic Alkali Landscape: Effects on Grassland Biodiversity along a Moisture Gradient

    Péter Török;Orsolya Valkó;Balázs Deák;András Kelemen

  • Mapping an ecological network of green habitat patches and their role in maintaining urban biodiversity in and around Debrecen city (Eastern Hungary)

    Bernadett Hüse;Szilárd Szabó;Balázs Deák;Béla Tóthmérész

  • Public attitudes toward biodiversity-friendly greenspace management in Europe

    Leonie K. Fischer;Leonie K. Fischer;Lena Neuenkamp;Lena Neuenkamp;Jussi Lampinen;Maria Tuomi

  • Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands — A multi-taxa approach

    Orsolya Valkó;Balázs Deák;Tibor Magura;Péter Török

  • Secondary succession in sandy old-fields: a promising example of spontaneous grassland recovery

    Ágnes Júlia Albert;András Kelemen;Orsolya Valkó;Tamás Miglécz

  • Linking environmental heterogeneity and plant diversity: The ecological role of small natural features in homogeneous landscapes.

    Balázs Deák;Bence Kovács;Zoltán Rádai;Iva Apostolova

  • Categorizing Grassland Vegetation with Full-Waveform Airborne Laser Scanning: A Feasibility Study for Detecting Natura 2000 Habitat Types

    András Zlinszky;András Zlinszky;Anke Schroiff;Adam Kania;Balázs Deák

  • Micro-topographic heterogeneity increases plant diversity in old stages of restored grasslands

    Balázs Deák;Orsolya Valkó;Péter Török;András Kelemen

  • Litter and graminoid biomass accumulation suppresses weedy forbs in grassland restoration

    B. Deák;O. Valkó;A. Kelemen;P. Török

  • Fine-scale vertical position as an indicator of vegetation in alkali grasslands – Case study based on remotely sensed data

    Balázs Deák;Orsolya Valkó;Cici Alexander;Werner Mücke

  • Lucerne‐dominated fields recover native grass diversity without intensive management actions

    Péter Török;András Kelemen;Orsolya Valkó;Balázs Deák

  • Factors threatening grassland specialist plants - A multi-proxy study on the vegetation of isolated grasslands

    Balázs Deák;Orsolya Valkó;Péter Török;Béla Tóthmérész

  • Grassland seed bank and community resilience in a changing climate

    Réka Kiss;Balázs Deák;Péter Török;Béla Tóthmérész

  • Recovery of native grass biodiversity by sowing on former croplands: Is weed suppression a feasible goal for grassland restoration?

    Péter Török;Tamás Miglécz;Orsolya Valkó;András Kelemen

  • Managing for species composition or diversity? Pastoral and free grazing systems in alkali steppes

    Péter Török;Orsolya Valkó;Balázs Deák;András Kelemen

Frequent Co-Authors

Orsolya Valkó
Orsolya Valkó University of Debrecen
Béla Tóthmérész
Béla Tóthmérész University of Debrecen
Péter Török
Péter Török University of Debrecen
Tibor Magura
Tibor Magura University of Debrecen
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Valentin H. Klaus
Valentin H. Klaus Ruhr University Bochum
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Per Milberg
Per Milberg Linköping University
Peter Poschlod
Peter Poschlod University of Regensburg

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