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Hungary
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Judit Padisák is affiliated with the University of Pannonia in Hungary and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's research spans multiple topics within aquatic and environmental biology, including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology

Among recent publications, notable works include:

  • Phytoplankton in extreme environments: importance and consequences of habitat permanency (2020, Hydrobiologia)
  • Ecosystem services provided by marine and freshwater phytoplankton (2022, Hydrobiologia)
  • Ecosystem services provided by freshwater and marine diatoms (2022, Hydrobiologia)
  • Life in suspension and its impact on phytoplankton morphology: an homage to Colin S. Reynolds (2020, Hydrobiologia)
  • Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits (2022, The ISME Journal)

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Hydrobiologia
  • Ecological Indicators
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Plankton Research
  • Journal of Applied Phycology

Judit Padisák has collaborated with several coauthors, with frequent collaborations including Géza B. Selmeczy, Luigi Naselli-Flores, Viktória B-Béres, Edina Lengyel, and Csilla Stenger-Kovács.

In recognition of professional contributions, the scientist is a member of Academia Europaea since 2016.

Best Publications

  • Use and misuse in the application of the phytoplankton functional classification: a critical review with updates

    Judit Padisák;Luciane O. Crossetti;Luigi Naselli-Flores

  • Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Woloszynska) Seenayya et Subba Raju, an expanding, highly adaptive cyanobacterium : worldwide distribution and review of its ecology

    Judit Padisák

  • Recommendations for the routine sampling of diatoms for water quality assessments in Europe

    M. G. Kelly;A. Cazaubon;E. Coring;A. Dell'Uomo

  • 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

  • Morpho-Functional Groups and phytoplankton development in two deep lakes (Lake Garda, Italy and Lake Stechlin, Germany)

    Nico Salmaso;Judit Padisák

  • Selection of phytoplankton associations in Lake Balaton, Hungary, in response to eutrophication and restoration measures, with special reference to the cyanoprokaryotes

    Judit Padisák;Colin S. Reynolds

  • What drives the distribution of the bloom-forming cyanobacteria Planktothrix agardhii and Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii?

    Sylvia Bonilla;Luis Aubriot;Maria Carolina S. Soares;Mauricio González-Piana

  • Intermediate disturbance in the ecology of phytoplankton and the maintenance of species diversity: a synthesis

    C. S. Reynolds;J. Padisák;Ulrich Sommer

  • Functional classifications and their application in phytoplankton ecology

    Nico Salmaso;Luigi Naselli-Flores;Judit Padisák

  • Hutchinson's heritage: the diversity-disturbance relationship in phytoplankton

    Ulrich Sommer;J. Padisák;C. S. Reynolds;P. Juhász-Nagy

  • Seasonal succession of phytoplankton in a large shallow lake (Balaton, Hungary) - a dynamic approach to ecological memory, its possible role and mechanisms

    Judit Padisak

  • 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

  • Chlorophyll a concentration across a trophic gradient of lakes: An estimator of phytoplankton biomass?

    Peter Kasprzak;Judit Padisák;Rainer Koschel;Lothar Krienitz

  • Are phytoplankton dynamics in rivers so different from those in shallow lakes

    C. S. Reynolds;J. P. Descy;Judit Padisák

  • Shallow lakes: the absolute, the relative, the functional and the pragmatic

    Judit Padisák;Colin S. Reynolds

  • Ecosystem services provided by marine and freshwater phytoplankton

    Unknown

  • 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

  • Epiphytic, littoral diatoms as bioindicators of shallow lake trophic status: Trophic Diatom Index for Lakes (TDIL) developed in Hungary

    Csilla Stenger-Kovács;Krisztina Buczkó;Éva Hajnal;Judit Padisák

  • DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

    Florian Leese;Florian Altermatt;Agnès Bouchez;Torbjørn Ekrem

  • Shape and size in phytoplankton ecology: do they matter?

    Luigi Naselli-Flores;Judit Padisák;Meriç Albay

  • Phytoplankton biomass and chlorophyll-a in some shallow lakes in central Europe

    Lajos Vörös;Judit Padisák

  • The influence of different disturbance frequencies on the species richness, diversity and equitability of phytoplankton in shallow lakes

    Judit Padisák

  • Equilibrium/steady-state concept in phytoplankton ecology

    Luigi Naselli-Flores;Judit Padisák;Martin T. Dokulil;Ingrid Chorus

Frequent Co-Authors

Gábor Borics
Gábor Borics Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Lothar Krienitz
Lothar Krienitz Leibniz Association
Luigi Naselli-Flores
Luigi Naselli-Flores University of Palermo
Gábor Várbíró
Gábor Várbíró Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Nico Salmaso
Nico Salmaso Fondazione Edmund Mach
Colin S. Reynolds
Colin S. Reynolds Freshwater Biological Association
Frédéric Rimet
Frédéric Rimet Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Dietmar Straile
Dietmar Straile University of Konstanz
Agnès Bouchez
Agnès Bouchez Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Béla Tóthmérész
Béla Tóthmérész University of Debrecen

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