My latest research paper looked into the relationship between a pondweed with its epiphytic algae. These epiphytes hog the light that the pondweed needs for photosynthesis and mess with the way the pondweeds use the light.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2025.1561709/full

Our new paper has surfaced!
We took a deep dive into the bustling microbial metropolis of #LakeBalaton and used some fin-tastic technology to uncover its hidden secrets. Turns out, this lake is teeming with many tiny inhabitants!

So next time you're taking a dip in Lake Balaton, remember you're diving into a whole different kind of culture!

#LongReadSequencing
#Bacterioplankton
You can find more details in the paper:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96558-7

An outflow of a thermal lake (Hévíz, Hungary). Only invasive species in the stream water.

The results suggest that environmental degradation tends to decrease the average values of the traits studied, but definitely increases the plasticity of these traits. A similar pattern was observed for plant senescence.
What do you think?

Sharing my new research paper "Photosynthetic traits of Phragmites australis along an ecological gradient and developmental stages", which examines how photophysiological traits and their plasticity respond to different levels of environmental degradation and with season.
📖 Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1476142
#WetlandEcology #Phragmites #LakeFertő

‪These findings may not rock your boat, but ... hey ... it could improve lake management if you think beyond catchments in a form of clustered management for neighbouring lakes.

- Hydrologically connected lakes show synchrony (yeah ... who knew?), although hydrologically disconnected lakes show higher synchrony of phytoplankton phenological events.

- Proximity matters: the closer the lakes, the more similar their biological processes, suggesting that regional factors (such as geology, geomorphology and mesoclimate) sometimes play a greater role than hydrological connectivity.

‪In my latest article I sum up investigation on the biological synchrony of neighbouring lakes in western Hungary using some satellite-derived chlorophyll data

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-024-05751-8

Here are some old trivia that everyone knows, but I manage to quantify:

Please help spread this article! Hopefully, I'm not the only one interested.
Cheers!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-55824-w#citeas