Eszter Szász

Qualification: Biologist
Degree: Ph.D. (2019, ELTE)
Position: research fellow
E-mail: iciperezvon(at)gmail.com
Phone: (06-1)372-2500/8755

Research interests

  • sex allocation
  • sex ratio adjustment
  • sex-dependent environmental sensitivity
  • developmental sensitivity
  • return rate to breeding sites
  • territorial behaviour
  • behavioural consistency

Linkek

Publications

Zsebők, S., Herczeg, G., Laczi, M., Nagy, G., Vaskuti, É., Hargitai, R., Hegyi, G., Herényi, M., Markó, G., Rosivall, B., Szász, E., Szöllösi, E., Török, J., Garamszegi, L.Z. (2021). Sequential organisation of birdsong: relationships with individual quality and fitness. Behavioral Ecology 32:82-93.

Jablonszky, M., Krenhardt, K., Markó, G., Szász, E., Hegyi, G., Herényi, M., Kötél, D., Laczi, M., Nagy, G., Rosivall, B., Török, J., Garamszegi, L. Z. (2020). A behavioural trait displayed in an artificial novel environment correlates with dispersal in a wild bird. Ethology (doi:10.1111/eth.13005)

Szabó, Gy., Boross, N., Garamszegi, L. Z., Hegyi, G., Jablonszky, M., Krenhardt, K., Laczi, M., Markó, G., Szász, E., Török, J. (2020). Correlation between physiology and behavioural traits in a wild passerine. (Hungarian with English abstract) Állattani Közlemények 105:71-84.

Hegyi, G., Jenni-Eiermann, S., Boross, N., Garamszegi, L.Z., Laczi, M., Kötél, D., Krenhardt, K., Jablonszky, M., Markó, G., Nagy, G., Rosivall, B., Szász, E., Török, J. (2019). Ornaments and condition: plumage patch sizes, nutritional reserve state, reserve accumulation, and reserve depletion. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73:89. (DOI: 10.1007/s00265-019-2701-0)

Hegyi, G., Laczi, M., Boross, N., Jablonszky, M., Kötél, D., Krenhardt, K., Markó, G., Nagy, G., Rosivall, B., Szász, E., Garamszegi, L.Z., Török, J. (2019). When to measure plumage reflectance: a lesson from collared flycatchers Ficedula albicollis. Ibis 161:27-34. (DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12609)

Jablonszky, M., Krenhardt, K., Markó, G., Szász, E., Zsebők, S. (2019). Személyiség az erdőben: a konzisztens állati viselkedés. Természet Világa 150:162–167.

Szász, E., Garamszegi, L.Z., Rosivall, B. (2019). What is behind the variation in mate quality dependent sex ratio adjustment? – A meta-analysis. Oikos 128:1-12.

Szász, E., Jablonszky, M., Krenhardt, K., Markó, G., Hegyi, G., Herényi, M., Laczi, M., Nagy, G., Rosivall, B., Szöllősi, E., Török, J., Garamszegi, L.Z. (2019). Male territorial aggression and fitness in collared flycatchers: a long-term study. The Science of Nature 106:11. (DOI: 10.1007/s00114-019-1606-0)

Szász, E., Markó, G., Hegyi, G., Török, J., Garamszegi, L.Z., Rosivall, B. (2019). Nest-site defence aggression during courtship does not predict nestling provisioning in male collared flycatchers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73:62. (DOI: 10.1007/s00265-019-2672-1)

Jablonszky, M., Szász, E., Krenhardt, K., Markó, G., Hegyi, G., Herényi, M., Laczi, M., Nagy, G., Rosivall, B., Szöllősi, E., Török, J.,Garamszegi, L.Z. (2018). Unravelling the relationships between life history, behaviour and condition under the pace-of-life syndromes hypothesis using long-term data from a wild bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72:52. (DOI 10.1007/s00265-018-2461-2)

Jablonszky, M., Szász, E., Markó, G., Török, J., Herczeg, G., Garamszegi, L.Z. (2017). Escape ability and risk-taking behaviour in a Hungarian population of the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:54.

Szász, E., Szöllősi, E., Hegyi, G., Török, J., Rosivall, B. (2017). Rearing conditions have long-term sex-specific fitness consequences in the collared flycatcher. Behavioral Ecology 28:717-723.

Zsebők, S., Herczeg, G., Blázi, G., Laczi, M., Nagy, G., Szász, E., Markó, G., Török, J., Garamszegi, L.Z. (2017). Short- and long-term repeatability and pseudo-repeatability of bird song: sensitivity of signals to varying environments. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71:[154].(DOI 10.1007/s00265-017-2379-0)

Krenhardt, K., Markó, G., Szász, E., Jablonszky, M., Zsebők, S., Török, J., Garamszegi, L.Z. (2016). A test on within-individual changes in risk-taking behaviour due to experience to predation in the Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis). Ornis Hungarica 24:115-127. (DOI: 10.1515/orhu-2016-0007)

Garamszegi, L.Z., Markó, G., Szász, E., Zsebők, S., Azcárate, M., Herczeg, G., Török, J. (2015). Among-year variation in the repeatability, within- and between-individual, and phenotypic correlations of behaviors in a natural population. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 69:2005-2017. (DOI 10.1007/s00265-015-2012-z)

Garamszegi, L.Z., Zagalska-Neubauer, M. Canal, D., Markó, G., Szász, E., Zsebők, S., Szöllősi, E., Herczeg, G., Török, J. (2015). Malaria parasites, immune challenge, MHC variability, and predator avoidance in a passerine bird. Behavioral Ecology 26:1292-1302. (DOI:10.1093/beheco/arv077)

Hegyi, G., Laczi, M., Nagy, G., Szász, E., Kötél, D., Török, J. (2015). Stable correlation structure among multiple plumage colour traits: can they work as a single signal? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 114:92-108. (DOI: 10.1111/bij.12412|)

Szász, E., Rosivall, B. (2015). The chimeric embryo hypothesis as a mechanism of avian sex ratio manipulation? Comment on Tagirov and Rutkowska. Behavioral Ecology 26:e1-e3

Garamszegi, L.Z., Mueller, J.C., Markó, G., Szász, E., Zsebők, S., Herczeg, G., Eens, M., Török, J. (2014). The relationship between DRD4 polymorphisms and phenotypic correlations of behaviors in the collared flycatcher. Ecology and Evolution 4:1466-1479.

Szász, E., Garamszegi, L.Z., Hegyi, G., Szöllősi, E., Markó, G., Török, J., Rosivall, B. (2014). Aggressive behavior of the male parent predicts brood sex ratio in a songbird. Naturwissenschaften 101:653-660. (DOI: 10.1007/s00114-014-1204-0)

Szász, E., Kiss, D., Rosivall, B. (2012). Sex ratio adjustment in birds. Ornis Hungarica 20:26-36.