University of Belgrade - Institute for Multidisciplinary Research

Marko Raković

PhD in ecological sciences

Research Associate

Address: Bulevar despota Stefana 142, 11060 Belgrade

Telephone: +381 11 2078 477

Research area

  • Ornithology
  • Ecology
  • Phylogeography
  • Taxonomy
  • Biogeography
  • Parasitology

Skills

Bird catching and ringing, blood sampling, making study skins of birds

Software for research in phylogeography: Beast, DNAsP, Sequencer, Arlequin, TCS

General software: Microsoft Office, QGIS, ArcGIS

  • Biography
  • Projects
  • Selected publications

1. Work experience:

  • (November) 2021 – present: Research Fellow, University of Belgrade – Institute for Multidisciplinary Research;
  • (November) 2018 – (November) 2021: Senior Bird curator, Natural History Museum of Belgrade;
  • (September) 2007 – (November) 2018: Bird curator, Natural History Museum of Belgrade;

2. Education:

  • 2019: PhD in Ecology, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Biology
  • 2007: BSc in Biology, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Biology

3. Other professional activities

Editorial and Reviewer’s activity (journals, books, projects):

  • PlosOne, Archives of biological sciences, Ardea

Current:

  1. 2020-2021 Fieldwork and data collection of bird species distribution in Serbia for establishing ecological network in Republic of Serbia. Institute for Nature Protection of Serbia.
  2. 2020-2021 Fieldwork and data collection of bird species distribution in Serbia for establishing network “Natura 2000” in Republic of Serbia. Institute for Nature Protection of Serbia.

Past:

  1. 2016-2019 Genetic diversity and population size of Three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) in Serbia. Ministry of Environmental Protection.
  2. 2016-2018 Ringing and studying migration of birds and bats in Serbia. Ministry of Environmental Protection.
  3. 2016-2017 Atlas of migratory birds and bats of Serbia. Ministry of Environmental Protection.
  4. 2014-2017 Birds of Western Palearctic. Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.
  5. 2013-2015 Ringing and studying migration of birds and bats in Serbia. Ministry of Environmental Protection.
  6. 2011-2014 Status and analysis of the population of Horned lark (Eremophila alpestris L., 1758) in Serbia: Protection problems and endangerment status. Ministry of Environmental Protection.
  7. 2011-2012 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal): Preserving Armenian biodiversity: Joint Portuguese – Armenian program for training in modern conservation biology.
  8. 2010-2013 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal): PTDC/BIA-BEC/103435/2008 “The role of ecology and behavior in population differentiation: Evolution of the endemic forest avifauna in the Caucasus”
  9. 2009-2011 NSF DEB-0919494 Testing Simultaneous Divergence of Isolated Avian Populations in the Caucasus.
  10. 2006 Vicariance versus dispersal – a population dinamics in birds in the endemic Caucasus area. National Geographic research commitee.
  1. Linić S., Lučanin V., Živković S., Raković M., Ristić S., Radojković B., Polić S. (2021): Multidisciplinary research method for designing and selection of bio-inspired profiles in the conceptual designing stage. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering 43 (1), 1-18.
  2. Pons, Campión D., Chiozzi G., Ettwein A., Grangé J., Kajtoch L., Mazgajski T., Raković M., Winkler H., Fuchs J. (2020): Phylogeography of a widespread Palaearctic forest bird species: The White-backed Woodpecker (Aves, Picidae). Zoologica scripta DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12466
  3. Zuccon D., Pons J., Boano G., Chiozzi G., Gamauf A., Mengoni C., Nespoli D., Olioso G., Pavia M, Pellegrino I., Raković M, Randi E., Idrissi H., Touihri M., Unsöld M., Vitulano S., Brambilla M. (2020): Type specimens matter: new insights on the systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature of the subalpine warbler (Sylvia cantillans) complex. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (1), 314-341.
  4. Jiguet F., Burgess M., Thorup K., Conway G., Matos J., Barber L., Black J., Burton N., Castelló J., Clewley G., Copete J., Czajkowski M., Dale S., Davis T., Dombrovski V., Drew M., Elts J., Gilson V., Grzegorczyk E., Henderson I., Holdsworth M., Husbands R., Lorrilliere R., Marja R., Minkevicius S., Moussy C., Olsson P., Onrubia A., Pérez M., Piacentini J., Piha M., Pons J., Procházka P., Raković M., Robins H., Seimola T., Selstam G., Skierczyński M., Sondell J., Thibault J., Tøttrup A., Walker J., Hewson C. (2019): Desert crossing strategies of migrant songbirds vary between and within species. Scientific reports 9 (1), 1-12.
  5. Jiguet F., Kardynal K.J., Piha M., Seimola T., Copete JL., Czajkowski MA., Dombrovski V., Efrat R., Minkevicius S., Raković M., Skierczyǹski M., Hobson KA. (2019): Stable isotopes reveal the common winter moult of central rectrices in a long-distance migrant songbird. Journal of Ornithology 160 (4), 1077-1085.
  6. Jiguet F., Robert A., Lorrillière R., Hobson K., Kardynal K., Arlettaz R., Bairlein F., Belik V., Bernardy P., Copete J., Czajkowski M., Dale S., Dombrovski V., Ducros D., Efrat, R., Elts J., Ferrand Y., Marja R., Minkevicius S., Olsson P., Pérez M., Piha M., Raković M., Schmaljohann H., Seimola T., Selstam G., Siblet J., Skierczyǹski M., Sokolov A., Sondell J., Moussy C. (2019): Unravelling migration connectivity reveals unsustainable hunting of the declining ortolan bunting. Science Advances: 5 (5), 1-10.
  7. Raković M., Neto JM., Lopes RJ., Koblik EA., Fadeev IV., Lohman YV., Aghayan S., Boano G., Pavia M., Perlman Y., Kiat Y., Ben Dov A., Collinson M., Voelker G., Drovetski S. (2019): Geographic patterns of mtDNA and Z-linked sequence variation in the Common Chiffchaff and the ‘chiffchaff complex’. PLoS ONE 14 (1): e0210268.
  8. Stanković D., Jonsson J. & Raković M. (2018): Diversity of avian blood parasites in wild passerines in Serbia with special reference to two new lineages. Journal of ornithology 160 (2): 545-555.
  9. Drovetski S., Fadeev I., Raković M., Lopes R., Boano G., Pavia M., Koblik E., Lohman Y., Red’kin Y., Aghayan S., Reis S., Drovetskaya S., Voelker G. (2018): A test of the European Pleistocene refugial paradigm, using a Western Palaearctic endemic bird species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 1889.
  10. Drovetski SV, Raković M., Semenov G, Fadeev IV & Red’kin YaA (2014): Limited phylogeographic signal in sex-linked and autosomal loci despite geographically, ecologically, and phenotypically concordant structure of mtDNA variation in the Holarctic avian genus Eremophila. PLoS ONE 9(1): e87570.