Assoc. Prof. Ivana Vitasović Kosić, PhD

• 2008 - 2011: PhD in ecology and environmental protection
  University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
  "Grasslands of Scorzonero-Chrysopogonetalia on Ćićarija moutain: Flora, Vegetation and Feed Value"
    doctoral thesis.
• 2003 - 2006: mr. sc. biology and ecology
  University of Zagreb Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  "Grassland Flora on Family Farms in Istria"
  master's thesis
• 1996 - 2001: mag. ing. prosp.arch.
  University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
  "Investigation of the value, reasons of occurrence, the manner of use and the possibility of renovation of Maksimir Park"
  graduate thesis

• 2002 - : University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture
  2022 - current Associate Professor
  2016 - 2021 Assistent Professor
  2011-2016 Senior Assistant
  2009-2011 assistant
  2003-2009 young researcher
  2002-2003 associate in teaching

• Botanika (26596)
• Fitocenologija (268980)
• Ekologija staništa i biljnih zajednica (169208)
• Primijenjena vegetacijska ekologija (185569)
• Invazivne biljne vrste (269562)
• Spektroskopske i analitičke metode u istraživanju agroeskosustava (173843)

• Botany floristic and vegetation research,
• Ecology and environmental protection,
• Ethnobotany and ethnoecology
• Feed value of grassland
• Geobotany and using GIS technology (GIS, GPS and RS) and fotointerpretation

• 2017/09/18 - 2017/09/22: University of Maribor, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology (scientific)
• 2016/01/25 - 2016/01/29: University of Maribor, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology (scientific)
• 2015/04/20 - 2015/04/25: University of Maribor, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology (scientific)
  University of Maribor
• 2014/10/06 - 2014/10/06: Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, (teaching)
  ERASMUS+
• 2010/02/07 - 2010/02/20: University of Camerino, SARF of Environmental science, Department of Environmental and Natural Science. (scientific)
  Training in the field of vegetation ecology. Academic Mobility.
• 2006/03/13 - 2006/03/25: Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Biological Institute "Jovan Hadži". (scientific)
  scholarships to the HAZU and SAZU.
• 2004/06/27 - 2004/07/10: BKAE University, Faculty of Horticultural Sciences, Department of Botany (and Botanical Garden). (expert)
  CEEPUS.

scientific

Title	Funding	Duration	AFZ role
Utjecaj otvorenih požara na kvalitetu tla i voda	Croatian science foundation	2018/12/01 - 2022/11/30	coordinator
Biljna raznolikost i hranidbena vrijednosti ovčjih pašnjaka jadranskog područja	MZOS	2007/01/01 - 2011/12/01	coordinator

expert

Title	Funding	Duration	AFZ role
Samonikle jestive biljke Hrvatske – zdrava hrana iz prirode	Zaklada Adris	2024/10/25 - 2025/11/30	contractor

university support

Title	Funding	Duration	AFZ role
Uspostavljanje kolekcije kultiviranih biljaka u Herbariju ZAGR	Sveučilište u Zagrebu	2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31	coordinator
Digitalizacija građe herbarijske zbirke ZAGR Agronomskog fakulteta u Zagrebu	Sveučilište u Zagrebu	2016/01/01 - 2016/12/31	coordinator

• Vitasović-Kosić, I., Hodak, A., Luczaj, L., Marić, M., Juračak, J. (2022). Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge of the Central Lika Region (Continental Croatia) - First Record of Edible Use of Fungus Taphrina pruni. Plants, 11 (2022), 22: 3133. doi:10.3390/plants11223133 
  
  Šipek, M., Horvat, E., Vitasović-Kosić, I., Šajna, N. (2022). Presence of alien Prunus serotina and Impatiens parviflora in lowland forest fragments in NE Slovenia. Šumarski list : znanstveno-stručno i staleško glasilo Hrvatskoga šumarskog društva, 146 (2022), 5-6; 215-222
  
  Vitasović-Kosić I., Kaligarič M. & Juračak J. (2021).
  Divergence of Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Slovenians on the Edge of the Mediterranean as a Result of Historical, Geographical and Cultural Drivers. Plants, 10, 2087, 41
  
  Łuczaj Ł., Jug-Dujaković M., Dolina K., Jeričević M., Vitasović-Kosić I. (2021.) Insular pharmacopoeias: ethnobotanical characteristics of medicinal plants used on the Adriatic islands. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12:623070, 1 -21
  
  Vitasović-Kosić I. (2021). Etnobotanička istraživanja Krasa i Istre – prikaz najčešće korištenih biljaka (Slovenija, Hrvatska). Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia 31(2):1-20.
  
  Biurrun I., Pielech R., Dembicz I., Gillet F., …, Vitasović-Kosić I., … & Dengler J. (2021). Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats. Journal of Vegetation science, 32(4), 1 -21, 32e:13050
  
  Vitasović-Kosić I. (2021). Etnobotanička istraživanja Krasa i Istre – prikaz najčešće korištenih biljaka (Slovenija, Hrvatska). Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia 31(2):1-20.
  
  Marić, M., Vitasović Kosić, I. (2020). Horticultural species of the island of Lokrum in the period of archduke Maximilian of Habsburg (1859–1869) and their current state. Šumarski list 144 (9-10), 443-454
  
  Łuczaj, Ł., Jug-Dujaković, M., Dolina, K., Jeričević, M., Vitasović-Kosić, I. (2019). The Ethnobotany and Biogeography of Wild Vegetables in the Adriatic Islands. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 15, 18; 1-17. 1doi:10.1186/s13002-019-0297-0
  
  Łuczaj, Ł., Jug-Dujaković, M., Dolina, K., Vitasović-Kosić, I. (2019). Plants in alcoholic beverages on the Croatian islands, with special reference to rakija travarica. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 15, 51; 1-19. doi:10.1186/s13002-019-0332-1 
  
  Vitasović Kosić, I., Juračak, J. & Łuczaj, Ł. (2017) Using Ellenberg-Pignatti values to estimate habitat preferences of wild food and medicinal plants: an example from northeastern Istria (Croatia). Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 13 (31), -. doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0159-6.
• Katija Dolina, Marija Jug-Dujaković, Łukasz Łuczaj & Ivana Vitasović-Kosić (2016) A century of changes in wild food plant use in coastal Croatia : the example of Krk and Poljica. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 85 (3), 3508-3529. doi:10.5586/asbp.3508.
• Vukojević, M., Vitasović Kosić, I., Alegro, A., Lakušić, D. & Bogdanović, S. (2016) Cardamine fialae Fritsch (Brassicaceae) a new species in Croatian flora. Acta botanica Croatica, 75 (2), 213-216. doi:10.1515/botcro-2016-0033.
• Vitasović Kosić, I., Tardella, F., Grbeša, D., Škvorc, Ž. & Catorci, A. (2014) Effects of abandonment on the functional composition and forage nutritive value of a North Adriatic dry grassland community (Ćićarija, Croatia). Applied ecology and Environmental Research, 12 (1), 285-299.
• Catorci, A., Ottaviani, G., Vitasović Kosić, I. & Cesaretti, S. (2012) Effect of spatial and temporal patterns of stress and disturbance intensities in a sub-Mediterranean grassland. Plant biosystems, 146 (2), 352-367. doi:10.1080/11263504.2011.623192.
• Vitasović Kosić, I., Tardella, F., Ruščić, M. & Catorci, A. (2011) Assessment of floristic diversity, functional composition and management strategy of North adriatic pastoral landscape (Croatia). Polish journal of ecology, 59 (4), 765-776.

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