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Ecology and Evolution
Hungary
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
8356
World Ranking
3510
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

János Török is affiliated with Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. Their research primarily spans the broad fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

Their work covers multiple subfields including Ecology, Developmental Biology, Ecological Modeling, and Genetics. Research topics focus extensively on Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Avian ecology and behavior, Plant and animal studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

Recent publications illustrate a focus on avian ecology and the impact of environmental factors on bird behavior and reproduction. Notable papers include:

  • The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Sequential organization of birdsong: relationships with individual quality and fitness, 2020, Behavioral Ecology
  • The roles of temperature, nest predators and information parasites for geographical variation in egg covering behaviour of tits (Paridae), 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole-nesting passerines, 2022, Ecology

Frequent co-authors associated with János Török include:

  • Miklós Laczi
  • Gergely Hegyi
  • Balázs Rosivall
  • Gábor Markó
  • Gergely Nagy

The scientist's contributions are often published in venues that specialize in ecology and evolutionary biology. Common publication venues include:

  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Large–scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier

    Christiaan Both;Aleksandr V. Artemyev;Bert Blaauw;Richard J. Cowie

  • Linked selection and recombination rate variation drive the evolution of the genomic landscape of differentiation across the speciation continuum of Ficedula flycatchers

    Reto Burri;Alexander Nater;Takeshi Kawakami;Carina F. Mugal

  • The design of artificial nestboxes for the study of secondary hole-nesting birds: a review of methodological inconsistencies and potential biases

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Frank Adriaensen;Daniel R. Ardia;Alexandr V. Artemyev

  • Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

    Veronika N. Laine;Toni I. Gossmann;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Colin J. Garroway

  • Flycatcher song in allopatry and sympatry – convergence, divergence and reinforcement

    J. Haavie;T. Borge;S. Bures;László Zsolt Garamszegi

  • Behavioural syndromes and trappability in free-living collared flycatchers, Ficedula albicollis

    László Zsolt Garamszegi;Marcel Eens;János Török

  • Life-History Variation Predicts the Effects of Demographic Stochasticity on Avian Population Dynamics

    BE Saether;S Engen;AP Moller;H Weimerskirch

  • Experimental analysis of sperm competition mechanisms in a wild bird population.

    Gábor Michl;János Török;Simon C. Griffith;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Depigmented wing patch size is a condition-dependent indicator of viability in male collared flycatchers

    János Török;Gergely Hegyi;László Zsolt Garamszegi;László Zsolt Garamszegi

  • Evolutionary analysis of the female-specific avian W chromosome.

    Linnéa Smeds;Vera Warmuth;Paulina Bolivar;Severin Uebbing

  • Immune challenge mediates vocal communication in a passerine bird: an experiment

    László Zsolt Garamszegi;László Zsolt Garamszegi;László Zsolt Garamszegi;Anders Pape Moller;Janos Torok;Gabor Michl

  • DENSITY DEPENDENCE IN REPRODUCTION OF THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER (FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS) AT HIGH POPULATION LEVELS

    Janos Torok;Laszlo Toth

  • Birds Reveal their Personality when Singing

    László Zsolt Garamszegi;Marcel Eens;János Török

  • Female collared flycatchers adjust yolk testosterone to male age, but not to attractiveness

    Gábor Michl;János Török;Péter Péczely;László Z. Garamszegi

  • Female European green lizards ( Lacerta viridis ) prefer males with high ultraviolet throat reflectance

    Katalin Bajer;Orsolya Molnár;János Török;Gábor Herczeg;Gábor Herczeg

  • Ultraviolet nuptial colour determines fight success in male European green lizards (Lacerta viridis).

    Katalin Bajer;Orsolya Molnár;János Török;Gábor Herczeg;Gábor Herczeg

  • Determinants of male territorial behavior in a Hungarian collared flycatcher population: plumage traits of residents and challengers

    László Zsolt Garamszegi;Balázs Rosivall;Gergely Hegyi;Eszter Szöllösi

  • Time to extinction of bird populations

    Bernt-Erik Sæther;Steinar Engen;Anders Pape Møller;Marcel E. Visser

  • Melanin, carotenoid and structural plumage ornaments: information content and role in great tits Parus major

    Gergely Hegyi;Beáta Szigeti;János Török;Marcel Eens

  • Brominated flame retardants and organochlorines in the European environment using great tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool

    Evi Van den Steen;Rianne Pinxten;Veerle L.B. Jaspers;Adrian Covaci

Frequent Co-Authors

László Zsolt Garamszegi
László Zsolt Garamszegi Centre for Ecological Research
Gábor Herczeg
Gábor Herczeg Eötvös Loránd University
Marcel Eens
Marcel Eens University of Antwerp
Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Raivo Mänd
Raivo Mänd University of Tartu
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Laszlo S. Toth
Laszlo S. Toth University of Lorraine
Blandine Doligez
Blandine Doligez Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Tore Slagsvold
Tore Slagsvold University of Oslo

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