Ágnes Vári

Ágnes Vári MSc,
junior research fellow
Institute building "A", room 104
phone: +36 87 448 244, 119 ext.
fax: +36 87 448 006
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Research Area
Travels, Scholarships
Publications
Symposium Attendance

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Birth:	08/02/1980, Budapest
Nationality:	Hungarian
Marital status:	married
Languages:	Mother tongues: Hungarian & German English: Certificate of Proficiency in English (Cambridge Institute) Basic knowledge of French and Spanish
EDUCATION & POSITION
1990-1999	Secondary school in Munich, final exams
2000-2002	Technische Universität München, basic studies in Biology
2002/2003	Two terms exchange at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest
2000-2002	Technische Universität München, Degree in Biology with main subject Applied Ecology (Limnology and Plant Ecology)
from 2006	Junior research fellow at the Macrophyte Working Group of the Balaton Limnological Research Institute (Hungarian Academy of Science)
2007-2010	PhD student at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest

Research Area

2006-2007	Effect of the environment on the morphology of Perfoliate Pondweed (Potamogeton perfoliatus) in Lake Balaton
from 2007	Macrophyte vegetation mapping in Lake Major of the Kis-Balaton Water Protection Reservoir (Hungary) Colonisation ability of macrophytes in experimental studies
from 2008	Clonal architecture of Perfoliate Pondweed (Potamogeton perfoliatus) and root structure under differing environmental conditions Strategies of dispersal and colonisation of different macrophytes in Lake Balaton
2009	Propagation by seeds, germination experiments
2010	Epiphyte assessment with artificial substrates in Lake Major of the Kis-Balaton Water Protection Reservoir Hyperspectral remote sensing of sub- and emergent macrophytes in Lake Balaton - ground truth data collection

Travels, Scholarships

2002-2003	Exchange student scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board (MÖB) (10 months)
2004	Plant ecological excursion from Munich to Lake Garda across the Alps
2005	Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the finishing of final thesis´ abroad (5 months)
2007	Research visit to the University of Konstanz and to the Limnological Station of the Technichal University of Munich
2009	Workshop on the application of hydroacoustic methods for mapping of macrophtyes, Hydrobiological Institute of the Czech Academy, Česke Budejovice, Czech Republic Southern Germany's macrophytes - Species composition and ecological state of waterbodies. Excursion by the University of Hohenheim (Prof. Kohler)
2010	International School of Conservation Biology, summer school, Rovinj, Croatia

Publications

Vári, Á. & Szövényi, G. (2007): Populationsentwicklung und Mobilität von Poecilimon brunneri Frivaldszky, 1867 im Gödöllőer Hügelland in Ungarn. Articulata 22 (1): 17-31.

Vári, Á. & Szövényi, G. (2007): The habitat requirements of Poecilimon brunneri Frivaldszky, 1867 (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae) and its Hungarian occurrence. Opuscula Zoologica Budapest 36: 97-102.

Vári, Á. & Tóth, V. (2008): Comparing the morphology of Potamogeton perfoliatus on the northern and the southern shores of Lake Balaton (in Hung.). Hidrológiai Közlöny 6: 231-233.

Boros, G., Tátrai, I., György, Á.I., Vári, Á. & Nagy, S. A. (2009): Changes in internal phosphorus loading and fish population as possible causes of water quality decline in a shallow, biomanipulated lake. International Review of Hydrobiology 94 (3): 326-337.

Vári, Á. & Tóth, V. (2009): Der Einfluss verschiedener Umweltgradienten im Plattensee auf die Morphologie von Potamogeton perfoliatus L. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL) - Erweiterte Zusammenfassungen der Jahrestagung 2008 (Konstanz): 205-209.

Vári, Á., Tóth, V. & Csontos P. (2010): Comparing the morphology of Potamogeton perfoliatus L. along environmental gradients in Lake Balaton. Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology 46 (2): 111-119.

Symposium Attendance

Vári, Á & Szövényi, G. (2006): Assessing the situation of the only Central European population of Poecilimon brunneri Frivaldszky, 1867 (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae) in Hungary. In: 1^st European Congress of Conservation Biology. 2006. augusztus 22-26., Eger, Book of Abstracts, 168.

Vári, Á. & Szövényi, G. (2006): The Hungarian occurrence of Poecilimon brunneri Frivaldszky, 1867 and its mobility (in Hung.). In: Szentesi, Á., Szövényi, G. & Török, J. (eds.): 7^th Hungarian Congress of Ecology. 4-6 September 2006, Budapest, Hungary, Abstracts, p. 220.

Vári, Á. & Tóth, V. (2007): Comparing the morphology of Potamogeton perfoliatus on the northern and the southern shores of Lake Balaton (in Hung.). 49^st Hydrobiology Days. 3-5 October 2007, Tihany, Hungary.

Vári, Á. & Tóth, V. (2008): Vergleichende Morphologie von Potamogeton perfoliatus L. am Süd- bzw. Nordufer des Plattensees in Ungarn. In: Abstractband DGL/SIL-Jahrestagung 2008. 22-26 September 2008, Konstanz, Germany, p. 152.

Vári, Á. & Tóth, V. (2008): Clonal structure of Potamogeton perfoliatus (in Hung.). In: 50^th Hydrobiology Days. 1-3 October 2008, Tihany, Hungary, p. 46.

Vári, Á. & Tóth, V. (2009): Clonal architecture of the submerged macrophyte Potamogeton perfoliatus in Lake Balaton, Hungary. In: 9^th Clonal Plant Symposium. 1-4 July 2009, Leuven, Belgium, Book of abstracts, p. 48.

Vári, Á. & Tóth, V. (2009): Spatial spread of macrophytes by clonal growth and fragmentation. (in Hung.). In: 8^th Hungarian Congress of Ecology. 26-28 August 2009, Szeged, Hungary, p. 231.

Vári, Á. , Oláh E. & Tóth, V. (2009): ): Colonising strategies of macrophytes in Lake Balaton (in Hung.). In: 51^th Hydrobiology Days. 30 Sept.-2 Oct. 2009, Tihany, p. 19.

Lőkkös A., Fábics A., Kondorosy E., Ferincz Á., Vári Á. & Rozner Gy. (2009): Distribution of Macroplea mutica ssp. balatonica Székessy, 1941 in Lake Balaton (in Hung.). In: 51^th Hydrobiology Days. 30 Sept.-2 Oct. 2009, Tihany, Hungary, p. 31.

Vári Á. & Tóth, V. (2010): Strategies of submerged macrophytes for colonising gaps in Lake Balaton. In: The Role of Littoral Processes in Lake Ecology. 29-31 January 2010, Hegne (Konstanz), Germany.