Introduction

I graduated as a certified agricultural engineer at Szent István University in Gödöllő in 2009. My application was accepted by the university’s Doctoral School of Plant Sciences in the same year. In 2016 I defended my dissertation examining the Hungarian distribution of Bothriochloa ischaemum, its agro-ecological effects and management options with summa cum laude. I joined the Nutrition Department of the University of Veterinary Medicine as a research associate in 2023.

Qualification: Agricultural Engineer (MSc.)

Scientific degree: PhD.

Scientific activity:

• Effects of grazing by different animal species and grazing methods on the internal structure of grasslands
• Agroecological and microcoenological effects of invasive and locally abundant grasses
• Feeding value of grassland species depending on their phenological development
• Ecology of C4 grass species.
• Nature conservational value of the vegetation of loess verges.

Progress:

2023 – research fellow – Animal Nutrition Unit

Professional memberships:

Number of theses supervised:

· BScTheses: 2

· MSc Theses: 3

· TDK works: 7

PhD studentssupervised: –

List of publications (Top 10)

MTMT link: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10027719&view=pubTable

1. Kotowski M., Kotowska D., Biró M., Babai D., Sharifian A., Szentes Sz., Łuczaj Ł., Molnár Zs. (2023): Change in European Forage and Fodder Plant Indicator Sets over the Past 250 Years. RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT, 88: 159-173. 2. Fűrész, A ; Penksza, K ; Sipos, L ; Turcsányi-Járdi, I ; Szentes, Sz ; Fintha, G ; Penksza, P ; Viszló, L ; Szalai, F ; Wagenhoffer, Zs. (2023): Examination of the Effects of Domestic Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) Grazing on Wetland and Dry Grassland Habitats. PLANTS-BASEL 12: 11: 2184

3. Házi J., Penksza K., Barczi A. , Szentes Sz., Pápay G. (2022): Mowing on Biomass Composition in Pannonian Dry Grasslands. AGRONOMY 12: 5: 11072.

4. Szentes Sz., Sutyinszki Zs., Kiss T., Fűrész A., Saláta D., Harkányiné Székely Zs., Penksza K. (2022): Verges as Fragments of Loess Grasslands in the Carpathian Basin and their Festuca Species. DIVERSITY-BASEL 14: 7: 510

5. Fraser L. H., Jentsch A., Sternberg M., Zobel M., Cahill J., Beierkuhnlein C., Bartha S., Bennett J. A., Boldgiv B., Brown L. R., Cabido M., D., Campetella G., Carlyle C.

N., Chelli S., Csergő A. M., Diaz S., Enrico L., Ensing D., Fidelis A., Garris H. W., Henry H. A. L., Höhn M., Klironomos J., Koorem K., Lawrence- Lodge R., ManningP., Mitchell R. J., Moora M., Pillar V. D., Stotz G. C., Sugiyama S., Szentes Sz., Tungalag R., Undrakhbold S., Wellstein C., Zupo T. (2015): Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. SCIENCE 349: 6245: 302-305.

6. Bartha S. , Szentes Sz., Horváth A , Házi J , Zimmermann Z , Molnár Cs., Dancza I., Margóczi K , Pál R., Purger D., Schmidt D., Óvári M., Komoly C., Sutyinszki Zs., Szabó G., Csathó A. I., Juhász M., Penksza K., Molnár Zs. (2014): Impact of midsuccessional dominant species on the diversity and progress of succession in regenerating temperate grasslands. APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE 17: 2pp. 201-213. 7. Penksza, K ; Házi, J ; Tóth, A ; Wichmann, B ; Pajor, F ; Gyuricza, Cs ; Póti, P ; Szentes, Sz (2013): Eltérő hasznosítású szürkemarha legelő szezonális táplálóanyag tartalom alakulása, fajdiverzitás változása és ennek hatása a biomassza mennyiségére és összetételére pannon nedves gyepben NÖVÉNYTERMELÉS 62: 73-94.

8. Szentes Sz., Sutyinszki Zs., Szabó G., Zimmermann Z., Házi J., Wichmann B., Hufnágel L., Penksza K., Bartha S. (2012): Grazed Pannonian grassland beta-diversity changes due to C4 yellow bluestem. CENTRAL EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY 7: 6: 1055-1065.

9. Házi J, Bartha S, Szentes S, Wichmann B, Penksza K (2011): Seminatural grassland management by mowing of Calamagrostis epigejos in Hungary. PLANT BIOSYSTEMS 145: 699-707. 10. Szentes, Sz ; Kenéz, Á ; Saláta, D ; Szabó, M ; Penksza, K (2007): Comparative researches and evaluations on grassland management and nature conservation in natural grasslands of the Transdanubian mountain range. CEREAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 35: 2: 1161-1164.

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