Research Group at the Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology

RESEARCH GROUP LEADER: Károly Penksza PhD., associate professor

CONTACT: Penksza.Karoly@mkk.szie.hu;  Barczi.Attila@mkk.szie.hu

RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS:
Professor: 1
Associate professor: 7
Assistant professor: 1
Junior assistant professor: 1
Departmental engineer: 2
PhD student: 11

RESEARCH AREAS:
Applied pedology, Paleo pedology, Soil protection, Field measurements and modelling of erosion, Soil mapping, Landscape ecology, Basics of soil landscape evaluation, Meteorology - microclimatology, Freshwater ecology, Hydrology, Study of landscape change, Social and land use monitoring of Environmental Sensitive Areas Program, Landscape asymmetry

SERVICES:
consulting
comparative analysis, studies
common research, education
botanical, grassland management, pedological and monitoring data
grassland evaluation
grassland management surveys
pedological survey, soil mapping, pedological advice
hydrological and meteorological surveys

GRANTS:

NKTH TÉT Investigating the role of grasses, their ecotypes and the management thereof in arid areas (2010)
EU Central Europe Programme   Adaptive management of climate-induced changes of habitat diversity in protected areas, HABIT-CHANGE (2010)
EU FP7 Indicators for biodiversity in organic and low-input farming systems, BioBio (2009)
EU eContentplus Programme INSPIRE: Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community, GS Soil (2009)
 
EU Culture Programme European Culture expressed in Agricultural Landscapes, EUCALAND (2008)(subcontract)
NFÜ ROP From the environmental higher education with complex approach to working life (2005)

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL RELATIONS:
On the website of Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology: www.kti.szie.hu/TTOT/

CONTRACTS:
Ministry of Rural Development, Centre for Agricultural Research, Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of HAS, Körös-Maros National Park, Kiskunság National Park, Balaton Upland National Park