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  1. Urgent need for updating the slogan of global climate actions from “tree planting” to “restore native vegetation”

    Article • Restoration Ecology, November 2021, Wiley

    Péter Török

  2. Post‐restoration grassland management overrides the effects of restoration methods in propagule‐rich landscapes

    Article • Ecological Applications, November 2021, Wiley

    Péter Török

  3. Patterns of pollination interactions at the community level are related to the type and quantity of floral resources

    Article • Functional Ecology, October 2021, Wiley

    Péter Török

  4. Sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus) – A new pest in Eurasian sand areas?

    Article • July 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Péter Török

  5. Zoochory on and off: A field experiment for trait‐based analysis of establishment success of grassland species

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, July 2021, Wiley

    Péter Török

  6. The present and future of grassland restoration

    Article • Restoration Ecology, April 2021, Wiley

    Péter Török

  7. The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2019–2020

    Article • Hacquetia, March 2021, De Gruyter

    Dr Anna A. Kuzemko, Péter Török, Dr. Stephen SJ Venn

  8. Oak regeneration at the arid boundary of the temperate deciduous forest biome: insights from a seeding and watering experiment

    Article • European Journal of Forest Research, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  9. The importance of dispersal and species establishment in vegetation dynamics and resilience

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, October 2020, Wiley

    Péter Török

  10. Climate, landscape history and management drive Eurasian steppe biodiversity

    Article • Flora, October 2020, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  11. River embankments mitigate the loss of grassland biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

    Article • River Research and Applications, June 2020, Wiley

    Péter Török

  12. Leaf trait records of vascular plant species in the Pannonian flora with special focus on endemics and rarities

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  13. Germination response of invasive plants to soil burial depth and litter accumulation is species‐specific

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  14. Dynamics in vegetation and seed bank composition highlight the importance of post‐restoration management in sown grasslands

    Article • Restoration Ecology, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  15. Beyond the Forest-Grassland Dichotomy: The Gradient-Like Organization of Habitats in Forest-Steppes

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, March 2020, Frontiers

    Péter Török

  16. Underground deserts below fertility islands? Woody species desiccate lower soil layers in sandy drylands

    Article • Ecography, March 2020, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  17. Chemotyping of terrestrial Nostoc-like isolates from alkali grassland areas by non-targeted peptide analysis

    Article • Algal Research, March 2020, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  18. Establishment gaps in species‐poor grasslands: artificial biodiversity hotspots to support the colonization of target species

    Article • Restoration Ecology, February 2020, Wiley

    Péter Török

  19. High resistance of plant biodiversity to moderate native woody encroachment in loess steppe grassland fragments

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, January 2020, Wiley

    Péter Török

  20. Underground deserts below fertility islands? - Woody species desiccate lower soil layers in sandy drylands

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  21. Beyond the forest-grassland dichotomy: the gradient-like organization of habitats in forest-steppes

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Péter Török

  22. Habitat islands outside nature reserves – Threatened biodiversity hotspots of grassland specialist plant and arthropod species

    Article • Biological Conservation, January 2020, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  23. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2019, Wiley

    Tereza Mašková, Piermaria Corona, Matteo Dainese, Dr. Frederic Lens, Dr Julia C Sfair, Dr David YP Tng, Dr Fabio Carvalho, Katarina Cufar, Péter Török, Dr Jaime E Villacís

  24. The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2018–2019

    Article • Hacquetia, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Jürgen Dengler, Dr Anna A. Kuzemko, Péter Török, Dr. Stephen SJ Venn

  25. Water usage and seasonality as primary drivers of benthic diatom assemblages in a lowland reservoir

    Article • Ecological Indicators, November 2019, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  26. Density-Dependent Plant–Plant Interactions Triggered by Grazing

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, July 2019, Frontiers

    Péter Török

  27. Pollination and dispersal trait spectra recover faster than the growth form spectrum during spontaneous succession in sandy old‐fields

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, April 2019, Wiley

    Gabriella Buffa, Péter Török

  28. Autumn drought drives functional diversity of benthic diatom assemblages of continental intermittent streams

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, April 2019, Elsevier

    gabo varbiro, Péter Török

  29. Recovery of species richness lags behind functional recovery in restored grasslands

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, March 2019, Wiley

    Péter Török

  30. Both mass ratio effects and community diversity drive biomass production in a grassland experiment

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  31. Vegetation type and grazing intensity jointly shape grazing effects on grassland biodiversity

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2018, Wiley

    Miss Judit Sonkoly, Péter Török

  32. Both trait-neutrality and filtering effects are validated by the vegetation patterns detected in the functional recovery of sand grasslands

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  33. Germination capacity of 75 herbaceous species of the pannonian flora and implications for restoration

    Article • Acta Botanica Hungarica, September 2018, Akademiai Kiado

    Miss Judit Sonkoly, Péter Török, Dr Orsolya Valkó

  34. GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands

    Article • Phytocoenologia, August 2018, Schweizerbart

    Professor Marko S. Sabovljevic, Péter Török, Prof. François Gillet

  35. Colonisation processes in benthic algal communities are well reflected by functional groups

    Article • Hydrobiologia, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    gabo varbiro, Péter Török

  36. The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest‐steppes

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, July 2018, Wiley

    Péter Török

  37. Ecosystem engineering by foxes is mediated by the landscape context-A case study from steppic burial mounds

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, June 2018, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  38. Beyond the species pool: modification of species dispersal, establishment, and assembly by habitat restoration

    Article • Restoration Ecology, June 2018, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Dr Elise Buisson, Péter Török

  39. Landscape and habitat filters jointly drive richness and abundance of specialist plants in terrestrial habitat islands

    Article • Landscape Ecology, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  40. Litter removal does not compensate detrimental fire effects on biodiversity in regularly burned semi-natural grasslands

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  41. Grassland seed bank and community resilience in a changing climate

    Article • Restoration Ecology, March 2018, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  42. Think twice before using narrow buffers: Attenuating mowing-induced arthropod spillover at forest – grassland edges

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, March 2018, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  43. Cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation – plant introduction and practical restoration on ancient burial mounds

    Article • Nature Conservation, January 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  44. Do large-seeded herbs have a small range size? The seed mass-distribution range trade-off hypothesis

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, November 2017, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Miss Judit Sonkoly, Péter Török

  45. Ecological background of diatom functional groups: Comparability of classification systems

    Article • Ecological Indicators, November 2017, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  46. Succession in soil seed banks and its implications for restoration of calcareous sand grasslands

    Article • Restoration Ecology, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Miss Judit Sonkoly, Péter Török

  47. Biodiversity on the waves of history: Conservation in a changing social and institutional environment in Hungary, a post-soviet EU member state

    Article • Biological Conservation, July 2017, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  48. Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration

    Article • May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Péter Török

  49. Filling up the gaps—Passive restoration does work on linear landscape elements

    Article • Ecological Engineering, May 2017, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  50. New aspects of grassland recovery in old-fields revealed by trait-based analyses of perennial-crop-mediated succession

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  51. A new aspect of grassland vegetation dynamics: cyanobacterium colonies affect establishment success of plants

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Miss Judit Sonkoly, Péter Török

  52. Ecological theory provides strong support for habitat restoration

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2017, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  53. Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands — A multi-taxa approach

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  54. Factors threatening grassland specialist plants - A multi-proxy study on the vegetation of isolated grasslands

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2016, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  55. The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  56. Grazing in European open landscapes: How to reconcile sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation?

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, October 2016, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  57. Managing for species composition or diversity? Pastoral and free grazing systems in alkali steppes

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, October 2016, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  58. Step(pe) up! Raising the profile of the Palaearctic natural grasslands

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  59. Livestock Type is More Crucial Than Grazing Intensity: Traditional Cattle and Sheep Grazing in Short‐Grass Steppes

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, May 2016, Wiley

    Péter Török

  60. Combined eco-morphological functional groups are reliable indicators of colonisation processes of benthic diatom assemblages in a lowland stream

    Article • Ecological Indicators, May 2016, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  61. Cultural monuments and nature conservation: a review of the role of kurgans in the conservation and restoration of steppe vegetation

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török, Prof.Dr Tatyana M. Bragina

  62. New measurements of thousand-seed weights of species in the Pannonian flora

    Article • Acta Botanica Hungarica, March 2016, Akademiai Kiado

    Péter Török

  63. Effects of Land Use and Wildfires on the Habitat Selection of Great Bustard (Otis tardal.)-Implications for Species Conservation

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  64. Comparison of species-rich cover crop mixtures in the Tokaj wine region (Hungary)

    Article • Organic Agriculture, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  65. Functional diversity supports the biomass–diversity humped‐back relationship in phytoplankton assemblages

    Article • Functional Ecology, January 2016, Wiley

    Péter Török

  66. River Dikes in Agricultural Landscapes: The Importance of Secondary Habitats in Maintaining Landscape-Scale Diversity

    Article • Wetlands, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  67. The invasion of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) in sandy old-fields - is it a threat to the native flora?

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  68. The Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) in 2015–2016

    Article • Hacquetia, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Professor Jürgen Dengler, Dr. Stephen SJ Venn, Anna Kuzemko, Péter Török, Dr Anna A. Kuzemko

  69. Intercropping experiments in Hungarian vineyards

    Article • Acta fytotechnica et zootechnica, December 2015, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

    Péter Török

  70. Seed production of orchids

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2015, Wiley

    Miss Judit Sonkoly, Péter Török

  71. Establishment of three cover crop mixtures in vineyards

    Article • Scientia Horticulturae, December 2015, Elsevier

    Péter Török, Dr Orsolya Valkó

  72. Bridging the research-practice gap: Conservation research priorities in a Central and Eastern European country

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, November 2015, Elsevier

    Péter Török

  73. Does disturbance enhance the competitive effect of the invasive Solidago canadensis on the performance of two native grasses?

    Article • Biological Invasions, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  74. Micro-topographic heterogeneity increases plant diversity in old stages of restored grasslands

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  75. Reed cut, habitat diversity and productivity in wetlands

    Article • Ecological Complexity, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  76. Both facilitation and limiting similarity shape the species coexistence in dry alkali grasslands

    Article • Ecological Complexity, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  77. Conservation Value, Management and Restoration of Europe’S Semi‑Natural Open Landscapes

    Article • Hacquetia, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Jürgen Dengler, Dr. Stephen SJ Venn, Péter Török

  78. Halophilic diatom taxa are sensitive indicators of even short term changes in lowland lotic systems

    Article • Acta Botanica Croatica, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Viktória B-Béres, Péter Török

  79. Mondró-halom kurgan (Hencida, East Hungary), a refugium of loess grassland vegetation

    Article • Kitaibelia, January 2015, Kitaibelia

    Péter Török

  80. Short communications

    Article • Kitaibelia, January 2015, Kitaibelia

    Péter Török

  81. Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Ainars Aunins, Iryna Herzon, Péter Török

  82. Ecological diatom guilds are useful but not sensitive enough as indicators of extremely changing water regimes

    Article • Hydrobiologia, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  83. Traditional Cattle Grazing in a Mosaic Alkali Landscape: Effects on Grassland Biodiversity along a Moisture Gradient

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2014, PLOS

    Péter Török, Dr Orsolya Valkó

  84. Sustaining recovered grasslands is not likely without proper management: vegetation changes after cessation of mowing

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  85. Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Jürgen Dengler, Péter Török

  86. Review: Prospects and limitations of prescribed burning as a management tool in European grasslands

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Péter Török, Dr Orsolya Valkó

  87. Environmental factors driving seed bank diversity in alkali grasslands

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  88. TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS

    Article • January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Péter Török

  89. Secondary succession in sandy old-fields: a promising example of spontaneous grassland recovery

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  90. New thousand-seed weight records of the Pannonian flora and their application in analysing social behaviour types

    Article • Acta Botanica Hungarica, September 2013, Akademiai Kiado

    Péter Török

  91. European grassland ecosystems: threatened hotspots of biodiversity

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jürgen Dengler, Péter Török

  92. Mechanisms shaping plant biomass and species richness: plant strategies and litter effect in alkali and loess grasslands

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  93. Effects of litter on seedling establishment: an indoor experiment with short-lived Brassicaceae species

    Article • Plant Ecology, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török, Dr Orsolya Valkó

  94. Laboratory and microcosm experiments testing the toxicity of chlorinated hydrocarbons on a cyanobacterium strain (Synechococcus PCC 6301) and on natural phytoplankton assemblages

    Article • Hydrobiologia, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  95. Fast restoration of grassland vegetation by a combination of seed mixture sowing and low-diversity hay transfer

    Article • Ecological Engineering, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  96. Is regular mowing the most appropriate and cost-effective management maintaining diversity and biomass of target forbs in mountain hay meadows?

    Article • Flora, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  97. Grassland restoration to conserve landscape‐level biodiversity: a synthesis of early results from a large‐scale project

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, January 2012, Wiley

    Péter Török

  98. Recovery of native grass biodiversity by sowing on former croplands: Is weed suppression a feasible goal for grassland restoration?

    Article • Journal for Nature Conservation, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  99. Penetration of weeds into the herbaceous understorey and soil seed bank of a Turkey oak-sessile oak forest in Hungary

    Article • Community Ecology, December 2011, Akademiai Kiado

    Péter Török

  100. Litter and graminoid biomass accumulation suppresses weedy forbs in grassland restoration

    Article • Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  101. Grassland restoration on former croplands in Europe: an assessment of applicability of techniques and costs

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török

  102. Lucerne-dominated fields recover native grass diversity without intensive management actions

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, November 2010, Wiley

    Péter Török, Dr Orsolya Valkó

  103. Restoration Potential in Seed Banks of Acidic Fen and Dry-Mesophilous Meadows: Can Restoration Be Based on Local Seed Banks?

    Article • Restoration Ecology, June 2010, Wiley

    Péter Török, Dr Orsolya Valkó

  104. Restoring grassland biodiversity: Sowing low-diversity seed mixtures can lead to rapid favourable changes

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  105. Early vegetation development after grassland restoration by sowing low-diversity seed mixtures in former sunflower and cereal fields

    Article • Acta Biologica Hungarica, January 2010, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr Orsolya Valkó, Péter Török

  106. The role of seed bank in the dynamics of understorey in an oak forest in Hungary

    Article • Acta Biologica Hungarica, January 2010, Akademiai Kiado

    Péter Török

  107. Vegetation of the Dolines in Mecsek Mountains (South Hungary) in relation to the Local Plant Communities

    Article • Acta Carsologica, December 2009, Scientific Research Centre ZRC-SAZU

    Péter Török

  108. Seed Bank and Vegetation Development of Sandy Grasslands After Goose Breeding

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Péter Török