University of Zagreb Faculty of Science

Description

The Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb provides high quality and effective university education in the fields of natural science and mathematics at all three levels of university studies. Scientific research is carried out within the fields of natural sciences (fields: mathematics, physics, geology, chemistry, biology, geophysics, and interdisciplinary natural sciences) and interdisciplinary areas of science (geography). Within the Department of Biology, the Division of Botany possesses two of the oldest and largest collections of mosses, ferns, and vascular plants in Croatia. The Herbarium Croaticum Collection (ZA) contains approximately 230,000 specimens collected in Croatia and worldwide over the last 200 years. The Herbarium Collection of Ivo and Marija Horvat (ZAHO) contains 71,611 herbarium sheets collected by Prof Ivo Horvat and arranged by his wife Marija. The collection contains mosses and vascular plants mainly from the territory of the Republic of Croatia, but also from other Balkan countries. As part of the work of the herbarium collections the systematization and digitalization of herbarium specimens is carried out, collections are supplemented by new samples, and collections are maintained by mounting specimens and systematic pest control. The ZA and ZAHO Herbarium Collections and their virtual herbarium comprising the publicly available and thus far systematized and digitalized herbarium specimens are available at: http://herbariumcroaticum.biol.pmf.hr

Contacts

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Ivana Resetnik
Telephone: + 385 1 4895 569
email: ivana.resetnik@biol.pmf.hr

University of Zagreb Faculty of Science
Horvatovac 102a
Zagreb
10000
HR
email: dekanat@dekanat.pmf.hr