Catalogue on Research and Innovation
Potential of University of Kragujevac

Laboratory of Hydrobiology is part of the Institute of Biology and Ecology of Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac. Researches are related to the study of plankton communities, benthos and nekton of freshwater ecosystems in terms of biodiversity, biological monitoring and sustainable use of resources.

Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity and Fishing in inland waters - AQUARIUM is a separate organizational unit of Institute for Biology and Ecology of Faculty of Science. The Center was founded in 1999th per preliminary design of professor Simić, because of the need of active protection, grow and reproduction of the increasing number of hydro-bionics in strictly controlled artificial conditions. Aquarium is the only facility of its kind in Serbia, which has so far toured over 500 000 visitors, mostly students from our country and region, as well as a large number of foreign delegations and scholars. It covers an area of around 500 m². In this area are exposed aquariums and terrariums whose total volume is over 60 000 liters. In the exhibition area of the Aquarium is situated collection of freshwater organisms of our country and of the Balkan Peninsula, Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australia.

Units of Aquarium

• The basic exhibition consisting of geographic areas that are organized to include the fauna of our country, Europe and the distant continents, as well as special units that illustrate the different types of aquatic ecosystems;
• Laboratory for experimental hatchery that is used for scientific and professional work in the field of reproductive biology of fish and crustaceans;
• Laboratory for cryopreservation.

The importance Aquarium

• The presentation and conservation of natural resources and diversity of wildlife of freshwater ecosystems,
• Ex situ programs of endangered species,
• Gene bank of indigenous biodiversity of fish and macroinvertebrates of Serbia in the form of living populations and sexual products (cryopreservation - sperm cells)
• Forming and maintaining databases of biodiversity of inland waters,
• Education of students, preschool and school children and citizens,
• Strengthening the biological and ecological awareness of the need for conservation of inland waters,
• Improvement of the tourist offer of the city of Kragujevac.

• Applicative database - Simić V., Simić S., Petrović A., Šorić V., Paunović M., Dimitrijević V. (2006): The biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems in Serbia and ex situ conservation „BAES ex situ” http://baes.pmf.kg.ac.rs
• Development and application of new biological methods for assessing the ecological status of inland water ecosystems - Balkan Biotic Index BNBI and fish BNBI (fBNBI)

Vladica Simić, Snežana Simić (1999): Use of the river macrozoobenthos of Serbia to formulate a biotic index. Hydrobiologia. Volume 416, pp 51-64.

Method is obligatory to determine the water quality in Serbia: Rules on reference conditions for surface water types (Sl. glasnik Republike Srbije, br. 67/2011)

• Elaboration and implementation of a new model for assessing the risk of extinction and conservation priority species of inland waters. ESHIPPOglobal, as well as specialized models ESHIPPOfish (aimed for commercial fish species) and ESHIPPOcrayfish (aimed to the conservation of decapods)

Simić V., Simić S., Paunović M., Cakić P. (2007): Model of assessment of critical risk of extinction and the priorities of protection of endangered aquatic species at the national level. Biodiversity and  Conservation. 16: 2471-2493. (ISSN 0960-3115)

Simić V.M., Simić S.B., Stojković Piperac M., Petrović A., Milošević Dj. (2014).  Commercial fish species of inland waters: A model for sustainability assessment and management. Science of the Total Environment, 497: 642-650. (ISSN 0048-9697) 

• Cryopreservation techniques of sperm of fish species: tench (Tinca tinca), salmon (Hucho hucho) and barbel (Barbus balcanicus)

Lujić J., Radojković N., Simić V., Marinović Z., Bjelić-Čabrilo O., Kostić D., Ćirković M. (2013): The applycation of cryopreservation in aquaculture. IX Medjunarodni gospodarsko-znanstveni skup o ribarstvu, Vukovar.

1. Simić V.M., Simić S.B., Stojković Piperac M., Petrović A., Milošević Dj. (2014).  Commercial fish species of inland waters: A model for sustainability assessment and management. Science of the Total Environment, 497: 642-650. (ISSN 0048-9697)  M21

2. Stojković M., Milošević Dj., Simić S., Simić V. (2014) Using a fish-based model to assess the ecological status of lotic systems in Serbia. Water Resources Management 28: 4615-4629. (ISSN 0920-4741) М21

3. Klobucar G., Podnar M.,  Jelic M., Franjevic D.,  Faller M.,  Stambuk A., Gottstein S.,  Simic M V., Maguire I. (2013). Role of the Dinaric Karst (western Balkans) in shaping the phylogeographic structure of the threatened crayfish Austropotamobius torrentium. Freshwater Biology, 58 (6) 1089-1105. ( ISSN: 0046-5070) М21

4. Milosević Dj., Stojković M., Čerba D., Petrović A., Paunović M., Simić V. (2014). Different aggregation approaches in the chironomid community and the threshold of acceptable information loss. Hydrobiologia, 727 (1): 35-50. (ISSN 0018-8158)   М22

5. Milosević Dj., Simić V., Stojković M., Čerba D., Mančev D., Petrović A., Paunović M. (2013). Spatio-temporal pattern of the Chironomidae community: toward the use of non-biting midges in bioassessment programs. Aquatic Ecology, 47: 37-55. (ISSN 1386-2588)  М22

6. Мilosevic Dj., Simic V., Stojkovic M., Zivic I. (2012). Chironomid faunal composition represented by taxonomic distinctness index reveals environmental change in a lotic system over three decades. Hydrobiologia, 683 (1), pp. 69-82. (ISSN: 0018-8158) М22

7. Stojkovic M., Simic V., Milosevic Dj., Mancev D., Penczak T. (2013). Visualization of fish community distribution patterns using the self-organizing map: A case study of the Great Morava River system (Serbia). Ecological modelling. 248:20-29. ( ISSN: 0304-3800)  М22

8. Simić, V., Simić S., Paunović, M., Cakić, P. (2007): Model of assessment of critical risk of extinction and the priorities of protection of endangered aquatic species at the national level. Biodiversity and  Conservation. 16: 2471-2493. (ISSN 0960-3115) М22

9. Simić, S., Pantović, N. (2010): Observations on the rare alga Thorea hispida (Thore) Desvaux (Rhodophyta) from Serbia. Cryptogamie Algologie, 31 (3): 343-353. ISSN 0181-1568, М23.

10. Simic S., Komarek, J., Djordjević, N. (2014). The confirmation of the genus Glaucospira (Cyanobacteria) and the occurrence of Glaucospira laxissima (G. S. West) comb. nova in Serbia. Cryptogamie Algologie, 35 (3):257-269. doi/10.7872/crya.v35.iss3.2014.259. M23

11. Petrović A., Milosević Dj., Paunović M., Simić S., Djordević N., Stojković M., Simić V. (2014). New data on distribution and ecology of mayflies larvae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) of Serbia (Central part of Balkan Peninsula). Turkish Journal of Zoology. DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1304-2  (ISSN 1300-0179) M23

12. Vladica Simić, Snežana Simić (1999): Use of the river macrozoobenthos of Serbia to formulate a biotic index. Hydrobiologia Volume 416, pp 51-64. M22