Research area:

marine mites, ecology of macroinvertebrates, biodiversity, and its conservation. V. Pešić has described about 300 new species from all parts of the world and is the author of more than 260 scientific papers and 2 monographs.

 

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

member of the international editorial board – scientific journal Acarologia;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Biodiversity and Sustainable Development;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Biologia Nyssana;

editor-in-chief – scientific journal Ecologica Montenegrina;

member of the advisory board – scientific journal Ecologia Balkanica;

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

member of the international 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 Persian Journal of Acarology;

member of the editorial board – scientific journal Vestnik zoologii;

subject editor – scientific journal ZooKeys;

member of the advisory board – scientific journal Zoology in the Middle East.

 

Major papers over the past five years:

Smit H., Pešić V. New records of hygrobatid water mites from SE Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) with the description of ten new species. Zootaxa, 2025, vol. 5566, no. 3, pp. 481–521. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5566.3.3

 

Pešić V., Smit H., Sharma N., Rana K. K., Bahuguna P., Kijevcanin E., Rayal R. Descriptions of a new species and undescribed sexes of two water mite species from Uttarakhand, India (Acari, Hydrachnidia). International Journal of Acarology, 2025, vol. 51, iss. 1, pp. 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/01647954.2024.2404984

 

Nikolić S., Mandić M., Pešić V., Ikica Z., Peraš I. Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture of the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758): A case study from Boka Kotorska Bay (Montenegro). Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, 2024, vol. 53, iss. 1, pp. 31–39. https://doi.org/10.26881/oahs-2024.1.05

 

Smit H., Pešić V. New records of rare water mites from New Zealand, with the description of a new genus (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Acarologia, 2024, vol. 64, iss. 2, pp. 602–611. https://doi.org/10.24349/vyvt-zyw6

 

Smit H., Pešić V. New records of notoaturine water mites from New Zealand, with the description of five new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Notoaturinae). Acarologia, 2024, vol. 64, iss. 2, pp. 499–524. https://doi.org/10.24349/ncjl-r16p

 

Myśliwy M., Pešić V. Tall herb fringe vegetation on banks of Montenegrin rivers as a habitat type of European importance. Water, 2023, vol. 15, iss. 20, art. no. 3684 (21 p). https://doi.org/10.3390/w15203684

 

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

 

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., 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