Mihaela Britvec

Personal information

Mihaela Britvec, PhD.
Associate Professor (2009)
Department of Agricultural Botany
Hall 1, 2. Floor
tel: +385 01 239 3838
e-mail: mbritvec AT agr.hr

Teaching

Undergraduate study programme (BSc)

Botany (coordinator)
Basics of botany (coordinator)

Graduate study programme (MSc)

Principles and methods of plant determination (coordinator)
Rare and endangered flora of Croatia (collaborator)

Postgraduate Doctoral studies of Agricultural Sciences

The Physiological Aspects of Plants and Crops Productivity In Stress Conditions (collaborator)

Research interests

Plant Anatomy / Morphology
Plant Ecology
Geobotany

Current projects

2006-2009

Plant diversity and nutritive value of sheep pastures in the Adriatic region
Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia
Mihaela Britvec (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

2006-2009

Genetic and phenotipic traits of the Croatian autochthonous sheep breeds

Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia
Vesna Pavić (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

Academic qualifications

1998 - Ph.D.

Faculty of Science University of Zagreb
Influence of the increased concentration of ozone on the anatomical changes in the vine lives

1992 - M.Sc.

Faculty of Science University of Zagreb
The morphological and anatomical characteristics of the root of several soya genotypes

1986 - B.Sc.

Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
Some characteristics of F1 hybrid plant generation of pea in vegetation

Training and research experience

October 1993 - Januar 1994, Air pollution and its impacts on plants
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
Dr. Gottfried Halbwachs

Employment and work experience

1986 - now

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

Past projects

2004 - 2006

Karst Ecosystems Conservation
Ministry of environmental protection, physical planning and construction, Croatia
World Bank

2003 - 2005

Management of semi-natural pastures in the Adriatic region
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Croatia
Mihaela Britvec (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

2003-2004

Wild grown flavourings and aromatic plants of the Adriatic coust on the web
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
Ivana Vitasović Kosić (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

2002 - 2005

Preservation of pasture plant diversity in the Adriatic region
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
Mihaela Britvec (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

2002-2003

Digital atlas of grassland flora
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
Mihaela Britvec (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

2001-2003

Pasture vegetation - cattle-raising production factor
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Croatia
Mihaela Britvec (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

2001-2003

The effect of heat treatment on storability of Satsuma
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Croatia
Tomislav Jemrić (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

2001-2002

Multimedia in plant anatomy
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
Mihaela Britvec (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

1996 - 2002

Croatian Bank of Plant Genes
Ministry of Science and Technology, Croatia
Ivan Kolak (project leader), Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb

Scientific publications

Ljubičić I, Britvec M, Kutnjak H, Salopek Z, Jelaska SD (2008) Mapping vegetation succession of pastures on rocky soils using GIS; a case-study on the island of Pag. Cereal Research Communications 36 (Part 1 Suppl S):359-362.

Pecina M, Jemrić T, Lepeduš H, Britvec M (2007) Fruit quality and oil gland morphology of heat-treated satsuma mandarins after cold storage. Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau 103(11):522-528.

Britvec M, Vitasović Kosić I, Ljubičić I (2006) Endemic grassland plants on the family farms in Istria. Agronomski glasnik 68(4):275-286.

Ljubešić N, Britvec M (2006) Tropospheric ozone-induced structural changes in leaf mesophyll cell walls in grapevine plants. Biologia 61(1):85-90.

Ljubičić I, Britvec M (2006) Rare and Threatened plants of the island of Pag. Agronomski glasnik 68(1):31-41.

Vitasović Kosić I, Britvec M (2006) Taxonomic Composition of Pasture Flora on Ćićarija (Istria, Croatia). Agricuturae Conspectus Scientificus 71(1):1-9.

Bernhardt KG, Britvec M (2005) The flora of Istria: Juncaceae. Acta Botanica Croatica 64(2): 375- 382.

Vitasović Kosić I, Britvec M (2005) Floristic characteristics of pastures on family farms in Istria. Natura Croatica 14(4):273-287.

Britvec M, Reichenauer T, Soja G, Ljubešić N, Eid M, Pecina M (2001) Ultrastructure changes in grapevine chloroplasts caused by increased tropospheric ozone concentrations. Biologia 56(4):417-424.

Britvec M, Trinajstić I (1995) Spaltöffnungszahl einer Population von Phillyrea angustifolia L. in der Po-Mündung (Italien). Annali dei Musei Civici di Rovereto (Supplemento II, Volumen 11). Finotti F (ur.), Rovereto. str. 223-230.

Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)

http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=137524