Dr. Péter Sály - MATE Research
Overview
As an aquatic ecologist, he focuses primarily on stream ecology and conservation. His area of expertise is the structural diversity of fish assemblages in space and time. He has studied fish biodiversity and habitat relationships across multiple spatial scales, ranging from microhabitats to subcatchment extents. Furthermore, he is experienced in the ecological bioassessment of streams and oxbows, with a particular emphasis on method development, such as multimetric indices. He also maintains an interest in aquatic biodiversity monitoring and is proficient in biostatistics and R.
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Publications
Examining the effects of habitat variables on the spatial variability of fish assemblage structure (e.g., species richness and composition). Additionally, investigating the relationship between habitat use and individual body size using a size-classified assemblage approach.
Ágnes Maroda, Péter Sály "Interspecific differences and ontogenetic shifts in body size-related microhabitat use by fishes in small, Central European submountain streams," Journal of Vertebrate Biology, 74(25078), 25078.1-23, (20 November 2025) https://doi.org/10.25225/jvb.25078
Maroda, Á., & Sály, P. (2023). Relative importance of meso- and microhabitat features in the within-reach spatial distribution of size-structured fish assemblages in small streams. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 32, 656–672. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12723
Erős, T., Takács, P., Specziár, A., Schmera, D. and Sály, P. (2017), Effect of landscape context on fish metacommunity structuring in stream networks. Freshw Biol, 62: 215-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12857
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