DR. MARIANNA BIRÓ

Areas of Expertise

• long-term vegetation changes, long-term forest cover changes and forest continuity since the 18^th century,
• countrywide analysis of long-term trends of Natura2000 habitats,
• past habitat management, conservation management, oral history,
• effects of grazing on wetland vegetation, grazing in non-conventional pasture areas
• historical landscape ecology, changes, drivers, and trajectories of historical habitat changes,
• traditional ecological knowledge, perception of landscape changes, and ecosystem services,
• impacts of Eurasian beaver,
• citizen science on Eurasian beaver, https://beavermap.com/
• Main methods: GIS, interview techniques, analyzing historical maps and written historical sources, botanical field surveys.
• Countries researched: Hungary, Romania, Mongolia, and Serbia

Brief Bio

• 2023 – Present, Senior Researcher, Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany
• 2013 – 2022, Researcher, Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany
• 2006 – 2013, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2007 PhD (Pécs University, Hungary)
• 1985 – 1990, BSc and MSc in Biology, Ecology (Szeged University, Hungary)

Functions, supervising, awards:

• 2019-2023, Leader of Historical Landscape Ecology Working Group of IALE (International Association of Landscape Ecology), https://www.landscape-ecology.org/working-groups/historical-landscape-ecology.html
• 2013-2014, Carpathian Convention, Cultural Heritage and Traditional Knowledge Working Group
• Supervised 3 PhD students, 10 MSc, 7 BSc (6 student prizes)
• 2008 Boros Ádám Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2001 Zólyominé Barna Piroska Award

Publications (Weblink only), if any:

• https://scholar.google.hu/citations?hl=hu&user=oaUGRCoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate