🔵 ➡️ 🦆 ➡️ 🔵 Not only plants and zooplankton! We proved that these guys 👇 carry around all major groups of plankton metacommunities in a pondscape - bacteria, phytoplankton, protozoa, fungi... you name it. :) 🦠 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…

These two water samples are collected from opposite ends of a pond. It is likely that the dense layer of duckweed inhibited the photosynthesis of algae in one side, thus contributing to the growth of purple bacteria that live in oxygen-poor waters.

Check out our new paper about environmental changes affecting microbial communities of soda pans!Conductivity was one of the most important environmental factor, the dry spring was really different! Zsófia Horváth Csaba Vad Szabó Beáta Karoly Palffy nature.com/articles/s4159…

If you're interested in mesocosm experiments focusing on habitat fragmentation & climate change, join our team Zsófia Horváth Csaba Vad Thu-Hương Huỳnh Karoly Palffy Zsuzsi Márton Barta Barbara Varsha Rani Adam Fierpasz in July! AQUACOSM call is available: aquacosm.eu/transnational-…

Celebrating the end of our AQUACOSM Transnational Access, where we had a lovely team of international guests here for the course of two months, producing exciting data in a mesocosm experiment with us!

Two months, 60 mesocosms, and almost as many people participating or helping out in various steps in our summer mesocosm experiment! ;) youtu.be/vKNaP_QYNwU AQUACOSM Szabó Beáta Thu-Hương Huỳnh Dunja Lukić Csaba Vad Olivera Stamenković KratinaLab Karoly Palffy ...

And it is done!!! Closing the mesocosms experiment after 2 months of insane intensity!! Thanks to all these #MetaHeroines who have accompanied me in this adventure!! #BombCratersPonds #Apaj Now, time to start compile and order all the results 🤞🏽🤞🏽 #MetaHeroesWP1 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Our first paper 🥇 resulting from our citizen science project MyPond 🪷 Hungary is full with garden ponds 🔵 🔵 🔵 They are intensely managed... 🐟 but they might still be useful for biodiversity! More coming soon, with another paper on the way! ;)