Research area:

marine mites, ecology of macroinvertebrates, biodiversity, and its conservation. Has described about 300 new species from all parts of the world. Is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed papers and two monographs.

 

Membership in editorial boards, publishing associations, scientific communities, and other organizations:

editor-in-chief – scientific journal Ecologica Montenegrina;

associate editor – scientific journal Ecologia Balkanica;

subject editor – scientific journal ZooKeys;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Acarologia;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Zoology in the Middle East;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal European Journal of Environmental Sciences;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Persian Journal of Acarology;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Biologia Nyssana;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal International Journal of Ecosystems and Ecology Science;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Natura Montenegrina;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Studia Marina;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal SKUP;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Vestnik zoologii.

 

References:

Dmitrović D., Savić A., Šukalo G., Pešić V. An updated checklist of freshwater gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with emphasis on crenobiotic species. Diversity, 2023, vol. 15, iss. 3, art. no. 357 (18 p.). https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030357

 

Pešić V., Smit H., Gurung M. M. Five new species of water mite genus Atractides Koch, 1837 from Bhutan with new records (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae). Acarologia, 2023, vol. 63, iss. 1, pp. 148–168. https://doi.org/10.24349/e399-mzq1

 

Pešić V., Jovanović M., Oliveira A. E., Pedro A., Freira M., Morais M. M. New records of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Portugal revealed by DNA barcoding, with the description of Atractides marizae sp. nov. ZooKeys, 2023, iss. 1151, pp. 205–222. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1151.100766

 

Smit H., Pešić V. A new species of the water mite genus Austraturus K. O. Viets, 1978 from Victoria, Australia (Acari: Aturidae: Notoaturinae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 2023, vol. 82, pp. 49–53. https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2023.82.02

 

Smit H., Pešić V., Clavier S. Water mites from French Guiana, with the description of 14 new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Acarologia, 2022, vol. 62, iss. 4, pp. 1119–1153. https://doi.org/10.24349/6fi9-aqit

 

Gadawski P., Montagna M., Rossaro B., Giłka W., Pešić V., Grabowski M., Magoga G. DNA barcoding of Chironomidae from the Lake Skadar region: Reference library and a comparative analysis of the European fauna. Diversity and Distributions, 2022, vol. 28, iss. 12, pp. 2838–2857. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13504

 

Pešić V., Esen Y., Gülle P., Zawal A., Saboori A., Jovanović M., Bańkowska A., Smit H. New records of water mites from Turkey and Iran revealed by DNA barcoding, with the description of a new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2022, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 1393–1407. https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.27.7.7

 

Pešić V., Smit H. Hydrodroma angelieri (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Hydrodromidae) a new water mite species from Corsica based on morphological and DNA barcode evidence. Acarologia, 2022, vol. 62, iss. 1, pp. 3–11. https://doi.org/10.24349/l06c-j0qm

 

Kvist S., Utevsky S., Marrone F., Ben Ahmed R., Gajda Ł., Grosser C., Huseynov M., Jueg U., Khomenko A., Oceguera-Figueroa A., Pešić V., Pupins M. Extensive sampling sheds light on species-level diversity in Palearctic Placobdella (Annelida: Clitellata: Glossiphoniiformes). Hydrobiologia, 2022, vol. 849, iss. 5, pp. 1239–1259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04786-5

 

Pakulnicka J., Buczynski P., Buczynska E., Stępien E., Szlauer-Łukaszewska A., Stryjecki R., Bankowska A., Pešić V., Filip E., Zawal A. Sequentiality of beetle communities in the longitudinal gradient of a lowland river in the context of the river continuum concept. PeerJ, 2022, vol. 10, art. no. e13232 (32 p.). https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13232

 

Savić A., Zawal A., Stępień E., Pešić V., Stryjecki R., Pietrzak L., Filip E., Skorupski J., Szlauer-Łukaszewska A. Main macroinvertebrate community drivers and niche properties for characteristic species in urban/rural and lotic/lentic systems. Aquatic Sciences, 2022, vol. 84, iss. 1, art. no. 1 (14 p.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-021-00832-5

 

Stryjecki R., Zawal A., Krepski T., Stępien E., Buczynska E., Buczynski P., Czachorowski S., Jankowiak Ł., Pakulnicka J., Sulikowska-Drozd A., Pešić V., Michonski G., Grabowski M., Jabłońska A., Achrem M., Olechwir T., Pietrzak L., Szlauer-Łukaszewska A. Anthropogenic transformations of river ecosystems are not always bad for the environment: Multi-taxa analyses of changes in aquatic and terrestrial environments after dredging of a small lowland river. PeerJ, 2021, vol. 9, art. no. e12224 (21 p.). http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12224

 

Zawal A., Czernicki T., Michoński G., Bańkowska A., Stryjecki R., Pešić V., Achrem M., Skorupski J., Pakulnicka J., Szlauer-Łukaszewska A. Freezing: How do water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) survive exposure to sub-zero temperatures? Experimental and Applied Acarology, 2021, vol. 84, iss. 3, pp. 565–583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-021-00634-2

 

Szlauer-Lukaszewska A., Pešić V. Habitat factors differentiating the occurrence of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in the floodplain of a small lowland River Krąpiel (N-W Poland). Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2020, iss. 421, art. 23 (11 p.). https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2020012

 

Jabłońska A., Wrzesińska W., Zawal A., Pešić V., Grabowski M. Long-term within-basin isolation patterns, different conservation units, and interspecific mitochondrial DNA introgression in an amphipod endemic to the ancient Lake Skadar system, Balkan Peninsula. Freshwater Biology, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 2, pp. 209–225. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13414

 

Dmitrović D., Pešić V. An updated checklist of leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ecologica Montenegrina, 2020, vol. 29, pp. 10–19. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.29.2

 

Pešić V., Smit H., Bahuguna P. A new species of Kongsbergia from the Western Himalaya with a key to the species of the genus of India (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Ecologica Montenegrina, 2020, vol. 27, pp. 35–38. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.27.4

 

Savić A., Dmitrović D., Glöer P., Pešić V. Assessing environmental response of gastropod species in karst springs: What species response curves say us about niche characteristic and extinction risk? Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020, vol. 29, iss. 3, pp. 695–708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01905-6

 

Vukašinović-Pešić V., Blagojević N., Brašanac-Vukanović S., Savić A., Pešić V. Using chemometric analyses for tracing the regional origin of multifloral honeys of Montenegro. Foods, 2020, vol. 9, iss. 2, article 210 (9 p.). https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9020210

 

Marinković N., Karadžić B., Stamenković V. S., Pešić V., Nikolić V., Paunović M., Raković M. Chorological and ecological differentiation of the commonest leech species from the suborder Erpobdelliformes (Arhynchobdellida, Hirudinea) on the Balkan Peninsula. Water, 2020, vol. 12, iss. 2, article 356 (14 p.). https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020356

 

Pešić V., Smit H., Negi Sh., Bahuguna P. D., Anoop K. Torrenticolid water mites of India with description of three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2020, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 255–267. https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.25.2.7

 

Weigand H., Beermann A., Čiampor F. … Pešić V. et al. DNA barcode reference libraries for the monitoring of aquatic biota in Europe: Gap-analysis and recommendations for future work. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, vol. 678, pp. 499–524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.247

 

Marinković N., Karadžić B., Pešić V., Gligorović B., Grosser C., Paunović M., Nikolić V., Raković M. Faunistic patterns and diversity components of leech assemblages in karst springs of Montenegro. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2019, vol. 420, iss. 26, 12 p. https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2019019

 

Shumilova O., Zak D., Datry T. … Pešić V. et al. Simulating rewetting events in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: A global analysis of leached nutrients and organic matter. Global Change Biology, 2019, vol. 25, iss. 5, pp. 1591–1611. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14537

 

Pešić V., Durucan F., Zawal A. Marine mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of the Mediterranean Sea: Descriptions of two new species, key for identification and future prospects. Zootaxa, 2019, vol. 4585, no. 3, pp. 501–516. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.6

 

Pešić V., Savić A., Jablonska A., Michonski G., Grabowski M., Bankowska A., Zawal A. Environmental factors affecting water mite assemblages along eucrenon-hypocrenon gradients in Mediterranean karstic springs. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 2019, vol. 77, iss. 4, pp. 471–486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-019-00360-w

 

Pešić V., Dmitrović D., Savić A., Milošević D., Zawal A., Vukašinović-Pešić V., Von Fumetti S. Application of macroinvertebrate multimetrics as a measure of the impact of anthropogenic modification of spring habitats. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 2019, vol. 29, iss. 3, pp. 341–352. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3021

 

Pešić V., Asadi M., Etemadi I., Smit H. New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Khuzestan Province (South Iran) with description of three new species. Zootaxa, 2019, vol. 4559, no. 3, pp. 550–558. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4559.3.5

 

Berlajolli V., Płóciennik M., Antczak-Orlewska O., Pešić V. The optimal time for sampling macroinvertebrates and its implications for diversity indexing in rheocrenes – case study from the Prokletije Mountains. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2019, vol. 420, article no. 6, 9 p. https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2018043

 

Pešić V., Smit H., Bahuguna P. New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Western Himalaya with the description of four new species. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2019, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 59–80. https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.24.1.5

 

Durucan F., Chatterjee T., Pešić V. Two new species of the marine water mite family Pontarachnidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Gulf of Antalya, Turkey. Zootaxa, 2018, vol. 4531, no. 2, pp. 271–278. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4531.2.8

 

Savić A., Pešić V., Đorđević M., Ranđelović V., Jušković M., Andrzej G. Effects of nutrients and turbidity on grazer-periphyton interactions: A case study from the Nisava River, Balkan Peninsula. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 2018, vol. 14, iss. 2, pp. 226–231. http://biozoojournals.ro/nwjz/content/v14n2/nwjz_e171801_Savic.pdf

 

Pešić V., Smit H., Mary N. Fifth contribution to the knowledge of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Comoros: A checklist and description of one new genus and four new species. Zootaxa, 2018, vol. 4483, no. 2, pp. 331–348. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.6

 

Pešić V., Zawal A. A new species in the water mite subgenus Majumderatax Vidrine, 1993 from Sri Lanka (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa, 2018, vol. 4457, no. 2, pp. 346–350. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4457.2.11

 

Chatterjee T., Pfingstl T., Pešić V. A checklist of marine littoral mites (Acari) associated with mangroves. Zootaxa, 2018, vol. 4442, no. 2, pp. 221–240. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4442.2.2

 

Chatterjee T., Dovgal I., Pešić V., Zawal A. A checklist of epibiont suctorian and peritrich ciliates (Ciliophora) on halacarid and hydrachnid mites (Acari: Halacaridae & Hydrachnidia). Zootaxa, 2018, vol. 4457, no. 3, pp. 415–430. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.4

 

Stubbington R., Chadd R., Cid N., Csabai Z., Miliša M., Morais M., Munné A., Pařil P., Pešić V., Tziortzis I., Verdonschot R. C. M., Datry T. Biomonitoring of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams in Europe: Current practice and priorities to enhance ecological status assessments (Review). Science of the Total Environment, 2018, vol. 618, pp. 1096–1113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.137

 

Pešić V., Smit H. A second Palaearctic species of the genus Wettina Piersig, 1892 based on morphological and molecular data (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Wettinidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2018, vol. 23, iss. 4, pp. 724–732. https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.23.4.11

 

Pešic V., Zawal A., Smit H., Bankowska A. New records of water mites from Sri Lanka (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with the description of four new species. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2018, vol. 23, iss. 1, pp. 178–195. http://dx.doi.org/10.11158/saa.23.1.14

 

Pešić V., Hossain M. B., Chatterjee T., Islam M. S., Zawal A. First records of water mites from Bangladesh (Acari, Hydrachnidia) with the description of two new species. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2018, vol. 23, iss. 5, pp. 868–882. http://dx.doi.org/10.11158/saa.23.5.7

 

Zawal A., Stryjecki R., Buczyńska E., Buczyński P., Pakulnicka J., Bańkowska A., Czernicki T., Janusz K., Szlauer-Łukaszewska A., Pešić V. Water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of riparian springs in a small lowland river valley: What are the key factors for species distribution? PeerJ, 2018, vol. 2018, iss. 5, 2018, e4797. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4797