Barbara Barta

We're thrilled to announce the 4th edition of our summer school on Blue-Green Biodiversity, a joint effort by @eawag.bsky.social & @wslresearch.bsky.social.
Join us in Davos to learn more about aquatic & terrestrial ecosystems from an interdisciplinary lens.
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🚨New paper🚨From a survey of 560 garden-pond owners, nearly half keep invasive macrophytes, often bought through online communities that are blind spots for researchers and authorities. #waterhyacinth #waterlettuce #invasiveplants #citizenscience 🌿🌱🌺 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Urban Ponds and the Emerging Role of Garden Ponds: Ecosystem Services and Disservices, Multifunctionality, and Trade‐Offs Urban ponds and garden ponds—a specific subset of the former, usually located in private gardens—are both typical examples of ponds in the urban landscape. They deliver multiple ecosystem services bu...

In our new review in WIREs WATER, we synthesize knowledge on ecosystem (dis)services, multifunctionality, and trade‐offs in urban ponds and highlight garden ponds as a specific subtype that deserves more attention
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Effects of urbanisation, habitat characteristics, and management on garden pond biodiversity: Findings from a large-scale citizen science survey The rapid expansion of urban areas often leads to degradation, fragmentation, and loss of natural habitats, threatening biodiversity. While urban pond…

Excited to share our new paper on garden pond biodiversity 🐸🐦‍⬛ resulting from our citizen science project MyPond. Dive into the details here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Glacial-fed and páramo lake ecosystems in the tropical high Andes - Hydrobiologia The effects of climate change in the tropical Andes are predicted to be devastating. While changes altering hydrology are already occurring, our knowledge of high-altitude lentic ecosystems is limited...

Link to publication 👉https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-017-3428-4

A gleccsertavak nagyobb veszélyben vannak, mint gondolnánk - magyar kutató érhet el átütő eredményeket az Andokban Barta Barbara magyar ökológus olyan gleccsertavakat vizsgált az Andokban, amelyek a klímaváltozás hatására egy nap teljesen eltűnhetnek. Az apró tavak különösen veszélyeztetettek a globális felmeleged...

My MSc work on glacial-fed lakes in the Andes featured in Glamour Hungary 🗻💦Feeling glamourous 👩‍🔬💋✨