Tomislav Treer

Personal information

Tomislav Treer, Ph.D.
Full professor (2000)
Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
Department of Fisheries, Beekeeping and Special Zoology
Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb
White villa
+385 /1/2393 875
+385 /1/2315 300
e-mail: treer@agr.hr

Teaching

Undergraduate program

Zoology
Fisheries
Hydrobiology
Ichthyology

Graduate program

Morphological methods in ichthyology
Methods of fishery investigations of open waters

Undergraduate study programme (BSc)

Agricultural Zoology
Basics of Agricultural Zoology
Fisheries
Biodiversity of Adriatic and freshwaters
Mediterranean Agriculture - Fisheries

Graduate study programme (MSc)

Ichthyology
Limnology and Oceanology

Postgraduate doctoral study programme (PhD)

Methods of fishery investigations of open waters

Postgraduate specialist study programme (PhD)

The fish stock assesment

Professsional degree course

Polytechnic Marko Marulić, Knin - Fisheries

Research interests

Ichthyology
Fishery management of open waters
Fish genetics
Hydrobiology
Aquaculture

Current projects

Biological basis of freshwater fisheries and game management (principal investigator)
Freshwater ecosystems and fisheries (program coordinator)
Genetic basis of repatriation of three Croatia carp lines, reserved in Hungarian ex-situ live genebank, to their farms of origin (principal investigator)
Genetics, nutritiona and introduction of new species in aquaculture (collaborator)

Academic qualifications

1985. - Ph.D.

"The influence of the fish cage culture on the development of zooplanktonic organisms," Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

1982. - M.Sc.

"Annual dynamics of planktonic cladocerans (Cladocera, Arthropoda) in the Maksimir lakes", Faculty of Sciences, University of Zagreb

1977. - B.Sc.

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

Training and research experience

Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University, Alabama, USA
Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Mississippi, USA
ICAMAS, Zaragoza, Spain
Institute of Fisheries and Hydrobiology, Brno, Czech Republic

Employment and work experience

1979. - now

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb

Past projects

The comparative study of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) from Croatia and China based on morphological and genetic analysis (principal investigator)
Comparison of genetic variability of Hungarian and Croatian common carp strains bred in fish farms and kept in live gene banks (principal investigator)
The biodiversity of Euroasian freshwater fish species (principal investigator)
Gestion des pecheries danubiennes (principal investigator)
Fish processing on the family fish farms (collaborator)
Protection of the endemic trout (collaborator)
Fishery monitoring of the Croatian open waters (principal investigator)
Fish polyculture in the brakish waters of the Neretva river delta (collaborator)
Genetics, nutrition and ecology in freshwater fisheries (principal investigator)
Models of small family commercial fish farms (principal investigator)
Advanced Innovative Models for Sustainability of North Adriatic Isles (principal investigator)
Ecological, biological and technological aspects in freshwater fisheries (principal investigator)
Induced spawning and hybridization of black carp (Mylopharingodon piceus) (principal investigator)

Other professional activities

Croatian representative at EIFAC/FAO/UN
President of the Editorial Board of scientific journal Ribarstvo (Fisheries)
Member of the Editorial Board of scientific journal Journal of Applied Aquaculture
Member of the Editorial Board of scientific journal Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus
President of the Scientific Board of XXXIV and XXXV Scientific Meeting od Croatian Agriculturists with the international participation, Opatija, 1998. and 1999.
President of the Board for the postgraduate specialist and master studies, Faculty of Agriculture, Universtiy of Zagreb
Member of the Board for scientific promotions for biotechnological sciences
Member of the Working group for postgraduate programs and doctoral thesis, University of Zagreb
Member of the National council for fisheries of the Republic of Croatia
Member of the Steering Committee of the EIFAC Symposium "Multyfunctional inland aquaculture", 2010.
President of the Council of biotechnical field, University of Zagreb (2005.-2007.)
Member of the Senat of the University of Zagreb (2005.-2007.)
Vice-dean for science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb (1997.-2001.)
Head of the Department of Fisheries, Beekeeping and Special Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb (1994.-2004.)

Scientific publications

Indexed in CC, SCI (a1):

Treer T., Sprem N., Torcu-Koc H., Sun Y., Piria M. (2008): Length-weight relationships of freshwater fishes of Croatia. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 24: 626-628

Sun Y. H., Xie C. X., Wang W. M., Liu S. Y., Treer T., Chang M. M. (2007): The genetic variation and biogeography of catostomid fishes based on mitochondrial and nucleic DNA sequences. Journal of Fish Biology, 70 (Supplement C), 291-309

Snoj A., Razpet A., Tomljanović T., Treer T., Sušnik S. (2007): Genetic composition of the Jadro softmouth trout following translocation into a new habitat. Conserv. Genet., 8: 1213-1217

Sušnik S., Wiss S., Odak T., Delling B., Treer T., Snoj A. (2007): Reticulate evolution: ancient introgression of the Adriatic brown trout mtDNA in softmouth trout Salmo obtusirostris (Teloostei: Salmonidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 90: 139-152

Torcu-Koç H., Erdogan Z., Tinkci M., Treer T. (2007): Age, growth and reproductive characteristics of chub, Leuciscus cephalus (L. 1758) in the Ikizcetepeler dam lake (Balikesir), Turkey. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 23(1): 19-24

Treer T., Piria M., Aničić I., Safner R., Tomljanović T. (2006): Diet and growth of spirlin, Alburnoides bipunctatus in the barbel zone of the Sava River. Folia Zoologica, 55(1): 97-106

Torcu-Koç H., Erdogan Z., Treer T. (2006): A review of length-weight relationships of fishes from freshwaters of Turkey. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 22(4): 264-270

Treer T., Varga B., Safner R., Aničić I., Piria M., Odak T. (2003): Growth of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) introduced into the Mediterranean Vransko Lake. J. Appl. Ichthyol., 19 (6): 383-386

Treer T., Aničić I., Safner R., Odak T., Piria M. (2003): Note on the growth of endemic soft-muzzled trout Salmothymus obtusirostris translocated into a Dalmatian river. Biologia, 58 (5): 999-1001

Treer T., Opačak A., Aničić I., Safner R., Piria M., Odak T. (2003): Growth of bream, Abramis brama, in the Croatian section of the Danube. Czech J. Anim. Sci., 48 (7): 251-256

Treer T., Safner R., Aničić I., Kolak A., Dražić M. (2000): Morphological variation among four strains of common carp Cyprinus carpio in Croatia. Folia Zoologica, 49 (1): 69-74

Kolak A., Treer T., Aničić I., Safner R. (1999): Monitoring the genotoxicity of the river Sava by micronuclei in chub (Leuciscus cephalus). Cytobios, 99: 135-142

Papers indexed in other data bases (a2): 47

Papers or abstracts presented at foreign or national scientific meetings: 56

Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)