On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science:
I am proud & grateful to work with all these smart, dedicated, inspired and enthusiastic women in my lab!
@schneiderbea.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @bartabarbara.bsky.social
& others not on Bsky

Our graphical abstract shows the relationships between key management practices, pond structure and the four groups on animals reported by our volunteers. To our surprise, they observed a total of 13 amphibian species across the country, which means most of the Hungarian species! 🐸

...let me tell you, it was a lot of mesocosms, samples and work in the pandemic year of 2020 and also since then. But also a superb team! I am grateful to all the colleagues and trainees who made this happen!
Special kudos to Beáta Szabó!🎉 @schneiderbea.bsky.social
Link to paper: shorturl.at/9o9ak

We found that connectivity loss led to higher levels of extinction and a decrease in both local and regional diversity in microeukaryotes!
In contrast, diversity patterns of prokaryotes remained largely unaffected.

We kept monitoring what happened with the help of eDNA metabarcoding as we were interested in the responses of prokaryotes (bacteria) and microeukaryotes. But we also took regular samples for water chemistry and zooplankton

We assembled metacommunities consisting of 5 mesocosms each that were initially all connected by weekly dispersal (water exchange) within each metacommunity. But after 4 weeks, we stopped connecting half of the metacommunities - these served as the fragmented pond networks for the next 3 months!

With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !

shorturl.at/9o9ak

Thank you so much Maja and Markus for having me and for your hospitality! 🍰 I really enjoyed my stay in Mondsee!! It was great to catch up, Maja! @majailiczg.bsky.social