Judit Sonkoly

Judit is an assistant research fellow at the University of Debrecen and at the MTA-DE Lendület Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group. She defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “The role of reproductive traits in the life cycle of plants and in the maintenance of biodiversity” in 2016. She has been working on various topics related to vegetation science and plant ecology, from seed production, dispersal and seed banks to diversity–productivity relationships and vegetation dynamics.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research topics

  • The effect of litter cover and soil burial depth on the germination and establishment of invasive plants
  • The role of horticultural trade in the unintentional dispersal of seeds
  • The role of different plant traits in determining dispersal ability and range size

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Selected publications (Publication download is only permitted for research and educational use.)

  1. Sonkoly, J., Kelemen, A., Valkó, O., Deák, B., Kiss, R., Tóth, K., Miglécz, T., Tóthmérész, B. & Török, P. 2019. Both mass ratio effects and community diversity drive biomass production in a grassland experiment. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 9: 1848. [pdf]
  2. Fantinato, E., Sonkoly, J., Silan, G., Valkó, O., Tóthmérész, B., Deák, B., … & Buffa, G. 2019. Pollination and dispersal trait spectra recover faster than growth form spectrum during the spontaneous succession in sandy old‐fields. Applied Vegetation Science 22: 435-443. [pdf]
  3. Sonkoly, J., Deák, B., Valkó, O., Molnár, V.A., Tóthmérész, B. & Török, P. 2017. Do large-seeded herbs have a small range size? The seed mass – distribution range trade-off hypothesis. ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 7: 11204-11212. [pdf]
  4. Sonkoly, J., Valkó, O., Deák, B., Miglécz, T., Tóth, K., Radócz, S., Kelemen, A., Riba, M., Vasas, G., Tóthmérész, B. & Török, P. 2017. A new aspect of grassland vegetation dynamics: Cyanobacterium colonies affect establishment success of plants. JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE 28: 475-483. [pdf]
  5. Sonkoly, J., E. Vojtkó, A., Tökölyi, J., Török, P., Sramkó, G., Illyés, Z. & Molnár V., A. 2016. Higher seed set can compensate for lower fruit-set in deceptive orchids. Journal of Ecology 104: 343–351. [pdf]