Marianna Biró
Biographic Data
| ID | 3708022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianna Biró |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianna |
| FAMILY NAME | Biró |
| SIGNATURE | BIRO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Ecology and Botany |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7673-1622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Environmental and socio‐economic factors behind data provision in 17 citizen science projects
Citizen science approaches in ecology have recently become increasingly popular. Although many advantages, such as the cost‐effective collection of vast amounts of data, outweigh the disadvantages, most projects face difficulties, such as non‐random sampling, pseudo‐absences or various biases, such as detection/reporting biases or participant‐related biases. To unravel some of the environmental and socio‐economic factors underlying data provision…
Delayed effects of indirect drivers behind changing habitat management in Central Europe
We argue, that appropriate subsidy schemes and governance models are essential to support surviving traditional farming practices, integrate biodiversity conservation with cultural heritage, and sustain innovative rural communities transitioning within Europe's marginalised agricultural landscapes
Benefits and challenges of reviewing across knowledge systems
Evidence‐based conservation can benefit substantially from multiple knowledge sources and different knowledge systems. While traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and collaborative research are increasingly acknowledged, detailed cross‐knowledge system reviews are scarce and their methodology underdeveloped. We have two objectives: to prepare such a review and to discuss the benefits and challenges of such reviews. We review pig keeping in fores…
Oral history methods can reveal drivers of landscape transformation
Ecosystems and landscapes shaped by the intricate relationship between people and their natural environment embody the impact of many different past land‐use practices and historical events. However, in some regions, classical historical records of landscape change do not exist or are insufficiently detailed. Local communities' ecological memory can play an important role in filling this gap by reconstructing the socio‐ecologically relevant indir…
Behind the general pattern of forest loss and gain
Despite deforestation taking place globally, forest cover is increasing in many European landscapes. This increase, however, resulting from plantations and spontaneous forest regrowth, may obscure the generally declining trend of semi-natural forests, though the latter are essential for local and landscape-level conservation strategies and sustainable forest management. We assessed changes in semi-natural and secondary forest cover since the 18th…
Land-use modifications and ecological implications over the past 160 years in the central Apennine mountains
Today’s Mediterranean landscapes result from the interaction between ecosystems and anthropogenic activities. This study aims to assess how the land-use changes between the mid-nineteenth and end of the twentieth century influenced the temporal continuity of the ecosystems in central Apennines (central Italy). Information was acquired from Gregorian cadastral maps, orthophotos and aerial photos (1850, 1954, 1980 and 2010), digitised and georefere…
Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia)
Background Traditional knowledge is key for sustainability, but it is rapidly disappearing. Pig keeping in forests and marshes is an ancient, once widespread, now vanishing practice, with a major economic and ecological potential. The knowledge of pig keepers and the foraging activity of pigs are hardly documented. Methods We studied the knowledge of traditional pig keepers ( svinjar s) on wild plants and pig foraging on the Sava-Bosut forest-mar…
How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a "stable" landscape
Gantuya, B., M. Biró, Á. Molnár, Á. Avar, A. Sharifian Bahraman, D. Babai, and Z. Molnár. 2021. How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape. Ecology and Society 26(2):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12454-260221
Prohibited, but still present
Background Forests have been grazed for millennia. Around the world, forest grazing by livestock became a controversial management practice, gradually restricted in many countries over the past 250 years. This was also the case in most Central and Eastern European countries, including Hungary, where forest grazing was a legally prohibited activity between 1961 and 2017. Until the 2010s, ecologists and nature conservationists considered it merely …
Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently
Ujházy, N., Z. Molnár, Á. Bede-Fazekas, M. O. Szabó, and M. Biró. 2020. Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently? Ecology and Society 25(3):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11742-250312
The ‘Cursed Channel’
Typology and distribution of small farms in Europe
The contribution of small farms to local food supply, food security and food sovereignty is widely acknowledged at a global level. In the particular case of Europe, they often are seen as an alternative to large and specialised farms. Assessing the real role of small farms has been limited by a lack of information, as small farms are frequently omitted from agricultural censuses and national statistics. It is also well acknowledged that small far…
An ethnobotanical perspective on traditional fermented plant foods and beverages in Eastern Europe
Landscape ethnoecological knowledge base and management of ecosystem services in a Székely-Hungarian pre-capitalistic village system (Transylvania, Romania)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies showed an in-depth ecological understanding by traditional people of managing natural resources. We studied the landscape ethnoecological knowledge (LEEK) of Székelys on the basis of 16-19(th) century village laws. We analyzed the habitat types, ecosystem services and sustainable management types on which village laws had focused. METHODS: Székelys had self-governed communities formed mostly of "noble peasants". Land-…
Floodplain hay meadows along the river Tisza in Hungary
For thousands of years, the character of the floodplain meadows along the river Tisza was determined by the meandering river. Though humankind settled on the edges of the floodplains of the river during the Neolithic, management of the landscape only began in the late Copper Age. The floodplain meadows and marshes along the river were utilized for floodplain management. The basis for water level control was allowing the floodwater to inundate the…
Landscape ethnoecological knowledge base and management of ecosystem services in a Székely-Hungarian pre-capitalistic village system (Transylvania, Romania)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies showed an in-depth ecological understanding by traditional people of managing natural resources. We studied the landscape ethnoecological knowledge (LEEK) of Székelys on the basis of 16-19(th) century village laws. We analyzed the habitat types, ecosystem services and sustainable management types on which village laws had focused. METHODS: Székelys had self-governed communities formed mostly of "noble peasants". Land-…
Typology and distribution of small farms in Europe
The contribution of small farms to local food supply, food security and food sovereignty is widely acknowledged at a global level. In the particular case of Europe, they often are seen as an alternative to large and specialised farms. Assessing the real role of small farms has been limited by a lack of information, as small farms are frequently omitted from agricultural censuses and national statistics. It is also well acknowledged that small far…
How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a "stable" landscape
Gantuya, B., M. Biró, Á. Molnár, Á. Avar, A. Sharifian Bahraman, D. Babai, and Z. Molnár. 2021. How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape. Ecology and Society 26(2):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12454-260221
Prohibited, but still present
Background Forests have been grazed for millennia. Around the world, forest grazing by livestock became a controversial management practice, gradually restricted in many countries over the past 250 years. This was also the case in most Central and Eastern European countries, including Hungary, where forest grazing was a legally prohibited activity between 1961 and 2017. Until the 2010s, ecologists and nature conservationists considered it merely …
The ‘Cursed Channel’
Land-use modifications and ecological implications over the past 160 years in the central Apennine mountains
Today’s Mediterranean landscapes result from the interaction between ecosystems and anthropogenic activities. This study aims to assess how the land-use changes between the mid-nineteenth and end of the twentieth century influenced the temporal continuity of the ecosystems in central Apennines (central Italy). Information was acquired from Gregorian cadastral maps, orthophotos and aerial photos (1850, 1954, 1980 and 2010), digitised and georefere…
Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia)
Background Traditional knowledge is key for sustainability, but it is rapidly disappearing. Pig keeping in forests and marshes is an ancient, once widespread, now vanishing practice, with a major economic and ecological potential. The knowledge of pig keepers and the foraging activity of pigs are hardly documented. Methods We studied the knowledge of traditional pig keepers ( svinjar s) on wild plants and pig foraging on the Sava-Bosut forest-mar…
Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently
Ujházy, N., Z. Molnár, Á. Bede-Fazekas, M. O. Szabó, and M. Biró. 2020. Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently? Ecology and Society 25(3):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11742-250312
Floodplain hay meadows along the river Tisza in Hungary
For thousands of years, the character of the floodplain meadows along the river Tisza was determined by the meandering river. Though humankind settled on the edges of the floodplains of the river during the Neolithic, management of the landscape only began in the late Copper Age. The floodplain meadows and marshes along the river were utilized for floodplain management. The basis for water level control was allowing the floodwater to inundate the…
An ethnobotanical perspective on traditional fermented plant foods and beverages in Eastern Europe
Landscape ethnoecological knowledge base and management of ecosystem services in a Székely-Hungarian pre-capitalistic village system (Transylvania, Romania)
BACKGROUND: Previous studies showed an in-depth ecological understanding by traditional people of managing natural resources. We studied the landscape ethnoecological knowledge (LEEK) of Székelys on the basis of 16-19(th) century village laws. We analyzed the habitat types, ecosystem services and sustainable management types on which village laws had focused. METHODS: Székelys had self-governed communities formed mostly of "noble peasants". Land-…
The ‘Cursed Channel’
Typology and distribution of small farms in Europe
The contribution of small farms to local food supply, food security and food sovereignty is widely acknowledged at a global level. In the particular case of Europe, they often are seen as an alternative to large and specialised farms. Assessing the real role of small farms has been limited by a lack of information, as small farms are frequently omitted from agricultural censuses and national statistics. It is also well acknowledged that small far…
Prohibited, but still present
Background Forests have been grazed for millennia. Around the world, forest grazing by livestock became a controversial management practice, gradually restricted in many countries over the past 250 years. This was also the case in most Central and Eastern European countries, including Hungary, where forest grazing was a legally prohibited activity between 1961 and 2017. Until the 2010s, ecologists and nature conservationists considered it merely …
Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently
Ujházy, N., Z. Molnár, Á. Bede-Fazekas, M. O. Szabó, and M. Biró. 2020. Do farmers and conservationists perceive landscape changes differently? Ecology and Society 25(3):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11742-250312
Land-use modifications and ecological implications over the past 160 years in the central Apennine mountains
Today’s Mediterranean landscapes result from the interaction between ecosystems and anthropogenic activities. This study aims to assess how the land-use changes between the mid-nineteenth and end of the twentieth century influenced the temporal continuity of the ecosystems in central Apennines (central Italy). Information was acquired from Gregorian cadastral maps, orthophotos and aerial photos (1850, 1954, 1980 and 2010), digitised and georefere…
Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia)
Background Traditional knowledge is key for sustainability, but it is rapidly disappearing. Pig keeping in forests and marshes is an ancient, once widespread, now vanishing practice, with a major economic and ecological potential. The knowledge of pig keepers and the foraging activity of pigs are hardly documented. Methods We studied the knowledge of traditional pig keepers ( svinjar s) on wild plants and pig foraging on the Sava-Bosut forest-mar…
How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a "stable" landscape
Gantuya, B., M. Biró, Á. Molnár, Á. Avar, A. Sharifian Bahraman, D. Babai, and Z. Molnár. 2021. How Mongolian herders perceive ecological change in a “stable” landscape. Ecology and Society 26(2):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12454-260221
Behind the general pattern of forest loss and gain
Despite deforestation taking place globally, forest cover is increasing in many European landscapes. This increase, however, resulting from plantations and spontaneous forest regrowth, may obscure the generally declining trend of semi-natural forests, though the latter are essential for local and landscape-level conservation strategies and sustainable forest management. We assessed changes in semi-natural and secondary forest cover since the 18th…
Benefits and challenges of reviewing across knowledge systems
Evidence‐based conservation can benefit substantially from multiple knowledge sources and different knowledge systems. While traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and collaborative research are increasingly acknowledged, detailed cross‐knowledge system reviews are scarce and their methodology underdeveloped. We have two objectives: to prepare such a review and to discuss the benefits and challenges of such reviews. We review pig keeping in fores…
Oral history methods can reveal drivers of landscape transformation
Ecosystems and landscapes shaped by the intricate relationship between people and their natural environment embody the impact of many different past land‐use practices and historical events. However, in some regions, classical historical records of landscape change do not exist or are insufficiently detailed. Local communities' ecological memory can play an important role in filling this gap by reconstructing the socio‐ecologically relevant indir…
Environmental and socio‐economic factors behind data provision in 17 citizen science projects
Citizen science approaches in ecology have recently become increasingly popular. Although many advantages, such as the cost‐effective collection of vast amounts of data, outweigh the disadvantages, most projects face difficulties, such as non‐random sampling, pseudo‐absences or various biases, such as detection/reporting biases or participant‐related biases. To unravel some of the environmental and socio‐economic factors underlying data provision…
Delayed effects of indirect drivers behind changing habitat management in Central Europe
We argue, that appropriate subsidy schemes and governance models are essential to support surviving traditional farming practices, integrate biodiversity conservation with cultural heritage, and sustain innovative rural communities transitioning within Europe's marginalised agricultural landscapes
Geography (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Agroforestry (4 works) · Land use (4 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 works)