Ákos BEDE-FAZEKAS, PhD

senior lecturer (partial time)
Contact
akos.bede-fazekas [at] ttk.elte.hu
bfakos [at] ecolres.hu
Information for applicants for Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship
List of publications
The Hungarian Scientific Bibliography (MTMT)
Qualifications
University studies and qualifications
2009 – landscape management and construction (BSc) – Corvinus University of Budapest
2012 – landscape architect (MSc) – Corvinus University of Budapest
2013 – software information technologist (BSc) – Eötvös Loránd University
Scientific degree
2017 – agricultural engeneering sciences (PhD) – Szent István University
Languages
English – intermediate level
French – basic level
Workplaces, positions
2015–2018 | assistant research fellow (MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany) |
from 2018 | research fellow (Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany) |
from 2021 | partial-time senior lecturer (ELTE TTK Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography) |
Education
BSc:
- ornamental plants, horticultural dendrology (Corvinus University of Budapest, Szent István University)
- geoinformatics – ArcGIS (Eötvös Loránd University)
MSc/MA:
- ornamental plant application (Corvinus University of Budapest, Szent István University)
- geoinformatics (University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest)
- geoinformatics – ArcGIS, QGIS (Eötvös Loránd University)
- programming basics – Python, HTML+CSS+JavaScript (Eötvös Loránd University)
- geoinformatics-related programming – Python (rasterio, fiona, shapely, arcpy), R (sf, raster), JavaScript (Leaflet, Google Earth Engine) (Eötvös Loránd University)
PhD:
- geostatistics (Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences)
- geoinformatics-related programming – R (sf, raster) (Eötvös Loránd University)
at any educational level:
- geoinformatics-related programming – R (sp, sf, raster) (Eötvös Loránd University)
- stylization with ornamental plants (Corvinus University of Budapest, Szent István University)
Supervision
Corvinus University of Budapest, Szent István University – 8 BSc
Eötvös Loránd University – 1 BSc, 1 MSc
University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest – 1 MSc
Profile in the Hungarian Doctoral Database (doktori.hu)
Research
Keywords of research interest
- climate change
- potential natural vegetation
- ornamental plants
- ecological modeling
- predictive distribution modeling
Main research topics
- climate change and potential natural vegetation
- climate change and ornamental dendrology
- predictive ecological modeling methods
D1 publications
2017
- Somodi I, Molnár Z, Czúcz B, Bede-Fazekas Á, Bölöni J, Pásztor L, Laborczi A, Zimmermann NE (2017): Implementation and application of multiple potential natural vegetation models – a case study of Hungary. Journal of Vegetation Science 28(6): 1260–1269.
2019
- Pinke G, Kolejanisz T, Vér A, Nagy K, Milics G, Schlögl G, Bede-Fazekas Á, Botta-Dukát Z, Czúcz B (2019): Drivers of Ambrosia artemisiifolia abundance in arable fields along the Austrian-Hungarian border. Preslia 91(4): 369–389.
2020
- Bede-Fazekas Á, Somodi I (2020): The way bioclimatic variables are calculated has impact on potential distribution models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11(12): 1559–1570.
- Ujházy N, Molnár Z, Bede-Fazekas Á, Szabó MO, Biró M (2020): Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently? Ecology and Society 25(3): 1–17.
- Erdős L, Török P, Szitár K, Bátori Z, Tölgyesi C, Kiss PJ, Bede-Fazekas Á, Kröel-Dulay G (2020): Beyond the forest-grassland dichotomy: the gradient-like organization of habitats in forest-steppes. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 236.
2021
- Demeter L, Molnár ÁP, Bede-Fazekas Á, Öllerer K, Varga A, Szabados K, Tucakov M, Kiš A, Biró M, Marinkov J, Molnár Z (2021): Controlling invasive alien shrub species, enhancing biodiversity and mitigating flood risk: A win–win–win situation in grazed floodplain plantations. Journal of Environmental Management 295: 113053.
2022
- Erdős L*, Bede-Fazekas Á*, Bátori Z, Berg C, Kröel-Dulay G, Magnes M, Sengl P, Tölgyesi C, Török P, Zinnen J (2022): Species-based indicators to assess habitat degradation: Comparing the conceptual, methodological, and ecological relationships between hemeroby and naturalness values. Ecological Indicators 136: 108707.
- McDonald GC*, Bede-Fazekas Á*, Ivanov A, Crecco L, Székely T, Kosztolányi A (2022): Landscape and climatic predictors of Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) distributions throughout Kazakhstan. Ibis 164(4): 949–967.
- Erdős L, Török P, Veldman J, Bátori Z, Bede-Fazekas Á, Magnes M, Kröel-Dulay G, Tölgyesi C (2022): How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest-grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest-steppe biome. Biological Reviews 97(6): 2195–2208.
- Tanács E, Belényesi M, Lehoczki R, Pataki R, Petrik O, Standovár T, Pásztor L, Laborczi A, Szatmári G, Molnár Z, Bede-Fazekas Á, Somodi I, Kristóf D, Kovács-Hostyánszki A, Török K, Kisné Fodor L, Zsembery Z, Friedl Z, Maucha G (2022): Compiling a high-resolution country-level ecosystem map to support environmental policy: methodological challenges and solutions from Hungary. Geocarto International 37(25): 8746–8769.
2023
- Bede-Fazekas Á, Somodi I (2023): Bridging the gap between an applied map and the scientific needs: how to visualize plant hardiness zone maps, their differences and their uncertainties?. Applied Geography 154: 102938.
*: co-first-authors