Projects
Since only a small amount of material has been fully systemized and digitized so far, herbarium staff members are regularly searching for external funds to support projects of systematization and digitization of certain plant groups deposited in the collections. The following projects are currently ongoing or have been undertaken so far:
Restauration of herbarium collections ZA and ZAHO
Duration: 2021-2026
Coordinators: Nina Vuković, Ivana Rešetnik and Vedran Šegota
A series of reparations and improvements of the collection organization is planned within the current five-year plan.
Digitization of Herbarium of Ivo and Marija Horvat (ZAHO), Croatia
Funding: IAPT, Small Collections grants
Duration: 2020
Coordinator: Ivana Rešetnik
The digitization of the collection of ferns from the ZAHO collection was carried out.
Monitoring of grasslands under the grazing regime in National Park Sjeverni Velebit in 2019
Funding: Public Institution National Park Sjeverni Velebit
Duration: 2019
Coordinator: Vedran Šegota
Digitization of the significant part of the herbarium collection of the retired Prof Ljerka Regula-Bevilaqua was carried out within the project, including the material collected on Dinaric mountains.
Filogeogaphy and evolution of three divergent ecological groups of Amphi-Adriatic plants (AmphiAdriPlant)
Funding: Croatian Science Foundation (Hrvatska zaklada za znanost – HRZZ)
Duration: 2018-2023
Coordinator: Ivana Rešetnik
Specimens of the species from the Dianthus sylvestris and Festuca bosniaca groups were digitized within the project (Terlević and Rešetnik 2020).
Flora Croatica Database – Information system for nature protection
Funding: Ministry for Nature Protection and Energetic Efficiency
Duration: 2018
Coordinator: Toni Nikolić
Collaborator: Vedran Šegota
Plant specimens of invasive flora from ZA and ZAHO were digitized within the project (Vilović et al. 2020).
Next-generation systematics of the south-eastern European genus Aurinia (Brassicaceae): evolution and phylogeography of an intricate plant group
Funding: Unity through Knowledge Fund
Duration: 2017-2019
Coordinator: Ivana Rešetnik
Specimens from the genera Aurinia and Alyssum from ZA and ZAHO were digitized within the project (Rešetnik and Španiel 2018, Rešetnik et al. 2020).
Digitization of ZA and ZAHO herbarium collections
Funding: Croatian Academy of Science and Art
Duration: 2016
Coordinator: Ivana Rešetnik
The web page of ZA and ZAHO collections with the Virtual herbarium search engine was established through this project.
Restauration of herbarium collections ZA and ZAHO
Funding: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
Duration: 2015-2020
Coordinators: Ivana Rešetnik and Vedran Šegota
Extensive renovation of the herbarium premises was carried out, including the acquirement of electronic equipment and air-conditioning system in ZA and ZAHO.