Maja Arok
Maja Arok is a researcher in the Centre for Biosystems within BioSense Institute. She holds a PhD degree in ecology from the Department of biology and Ecology of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Novi Sad since 2021. She is actively involved in biodiversity conservation of seminatural landscapes, such as Vojvodina. Much of her work is focused on the endangered European ground squirrel, but she is involved in studies of biodiversity of other groups of organisms, such as birds and hoverflies. Since November 2021, she is a member of eLTER network and the coordinator of eLTER site „Sunčani salaš“ at the Subotička peščara (Subotica sands) nature reserve.
Center:
CBS
Themes:
1. Endangered animal species
2. Ecological interactions
3. Bioindicators and changes in the environment
Publications:
1.Vujić A, Tot T, Andrić A, Ačanski J, Šašić Zorić L, Pérez-Bañón C, Aracil A, Veselić S, Arok M, Mengual X, van Eck A, Rojo S, Radenković S (2021) Review of the Merodon natans group with description of a new species, a key to the adults of known species of the natans lineage and first descriptions of some preimaginal stages. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 79: 343-378. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.79.e65861
2.Arok M, Nikolić T, Győri-Koosz B, Milinski L, Ćirović D (2021) Diet of the European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) in the southern Pannonian plain. Archives of Biological Sciences. 2021;73(1):111-122 https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS201231007A
3.Nikolić T, Arok M, Radišić D, Mirč M, Velaja L, Milić D, Ćirović D (2020) Endangered species’ trait responses to environmental variability in agricultural settings. Archives of Biological Sciences. 2020;72(1):13-21. https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS190715061N
4.Arok M, Ačanski J, Tot T, Radenković S, Vujić A (2019) Merodon natans and M. pulveris (Diptera: Syrphidae): Delimitating cryptic hoverfly species using the geometric morphometric method. Acta Entomologica Serbica, 24(2), pp. 63-84. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3379973