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Overview

Gábor Borics is affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Hungary and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics. Their research encompasses a broad range of subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Oceanography, Biomaterials, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics such as:

  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Algal Biology and Biofuel Production
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology

Frequent publication venues for Gábor Borics include:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ecological Indicators
  • Acta Biologica Plantarum Agriensis
  • Scientific Reports

The scientist has collaborated often with several co-authors, including Viktória B-Béres, Gábor Várbíró, Enikő T-Krasznai, Áron Lukács, and Judit Görgényi. These collaborations have contributed to a consistent research output in the fields of aquatic and environmental sciences.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Gábor Borics highlight their research topics and are as follows:

  • Freshwater phytoplankton diversity: models, drivers and implications for ecosystem properties, 2020, Hydrobiologia
  • Environmental filtering and limiting similarity as main forces driving diatom community structure in Mediterranean and continental temporary and perennial streams, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biovolume and surface area calculations for microalgae, using realistic 3D models, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Their work contributes to understanding freshwater and marine ecosystem properties through species diversity analysis, structural community organization, and methodological developments such as microalgae volume and surface area measurement.

Best Publications

  • Use of Phytoplankton Assemblages for Monitoring Ecological Status of Lakes within the Water Framework Directive: The Assemblage Index

    Judit Padisák;Gábor Borics;István Grigorszky;Éva Soróczki-Pintér

  • Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: An analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive

    Laurence Carvalho;Eleanor B. Mackay;Ana Cristina Cardoso;Annette Baattrup-Pedersen

  • The Cascading Reservoir Continuum Concept (CRCC) and its application to the river Tietê-basin, São Paulo State, Brazil

    F. A. R. Barbosa;Judit Padisák;E. L. G. Espindola;Gábor Borics

  • Sustaining recreational quality of European lakes: minimizing the health risks from algal blooms through phosphorus control

    Laurence Carvalho;Claire McDonald;Caridad de Hoyos;Ute Mischke

  • Dominant species, functional assemblages and frequency of equilibrium phases in late summer phytoplankton assemblages in Hungarian small shallow lakes

    Judit Padisák;Gábor Borics;Gizella Fehér;István Grigorszky

  • Strength and uncertainty of phytoplankton metrics for assessing eutrophication impacts in lakes

    L. Carvalho;S. Poikane;A. Lyche Solheim;G. Phillips

  • A new evaluation technique of potamo-plankton for the assessment of the ecological status of rivers

    Gábor Borics;Gábor Várbíró;István Grigorszky;Enikö Krasznai

  • Does isolation influence the relative role of environmental and dispersal‐related processes in stream networks? An empirical test of the network position hypothesis using multiple taxa

    Dénes Schmera;Diána Árva;Pál Boda;Erika Bódis

  • Phycogeography of freshwater phytoplankton: Traditional knowledge and new molecular tools

    Judit Padisák;Gábor Vasas;Gábor Borics

  • Freshwater phytoplankton diversity: models, drivers and implications for ecosystem properties.

    Gábor Borics;András Abonyi;Nico Salmaso;Robert Ptacnik

  • Phytoplankton functional and morpho-functional approach in large floodplain rivers

    Igor Stanković;Tatjana Vlahović;Marija Gligora Udovič;Gábor Várbíró

  • Functional groups of phytoplankton shaping diversity of shallow lake ecosystems

    Gábor Borics;Béla Tóthmérész;Balázs A. Lukács;Gábor Várbíró

  • Functional diversity of phytoplankton highlights long‐term gradual regime shift in the middle section of the Danube River due to global warming, human impacts and oligotrophication

    András Abonyi;Éva Ács;András Hidas;István Grigorszky

  • Estimating nutrient thresholds for eutrophication management: Novel insights from understudied lake types.

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  • A large river (River Loire, France) survey to compare phytoplankton functional approaches: Do they display river zones in similar ways?

    András Abonyi;Maria Leitão;Igor Stanković;Gábor Borics

  • Algal assemblage types of bog-lakes in Hungary and their relation to water chemistry, hydrological conditions and habitat diversity

    Gábor Borics;Béla Tóthmérész;István Grigorszky;Judit Padisák

  • Phytoplankton associations in a small hypertrophic fishpond in East Hungary during a change from bottom-up to top-down control

    Gábor Borics;István Grigorszky;Sándor Szabó;Judit Padisák

  • Disturbance and stress: different meanings in ecological dynamics?

    Gábor Borics;Gábor Várbíró;Judit Padisák

  • Littoral macrophyte-periphyton complexes in two Hungarian shallow waters

    Magdolna K. Kiss;Gyula Lakatos;Gábor Borics;Zsolt Gidó

  • Characteristics of the pelagic phytoplankton in shallow oxbows

    Enikő Krasznai;Gábor Borics;Gábor Várbíró;András Abonyi

  • The role of phytoplankton diversity metrics in shallow lake and river quality assessment

    Gábor Borics;Judit Görgényi;István Grigorszky;Zsolt László-Nagy

  • Which factors affect phytoplankton biomass in shallow eutrophic lakes

    Gábor Borics;Levente Nagy;Stefan Miron;István Grigorszky

Frequent Co-Authors

Gábor Várbíró
Gábor Várbíró Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Judit Padisák
Judit Padisák University of Pannonia
Béla Tóthmérész
Béla Tóthmérész University of Debrecen
Odete Rocha
Odete Rocha Federal University of São Carlos
Péter Török
Péter Török University of Debrecen
Tibor Erős
Tibor Erős Balaton Limnological Institute
Edwin T. H. M. Peeters
Edwin T. H. M. Peeters Wageningen University & Research
Laurence Carvalho
Laurence Carvalho Natural Environment Research Council
Sandra Poikane
Sandra Poikane European Commission Joint Research Centre
Luc Ector
Luc Ector Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

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