Natura Sloveniae publishes original papers based on fieldwork from the sphere of biology and/or contributes to the knowledge of the natural history of Central and Southeast Europe.
As a follow-up to the investigation of the water beetle fauna of the upper course of the Neretva River in 2022, during the second »Neretva Science Week« in June 2023, additional tributaries were sampled and the presence of the endemic Bosn...
This study investigates the riparian forest and scrub vegetation along the Zalomka and Upper Neretva rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Despite the ecological significance of these rivers’ riparian zones, they remain underexplored, pa...
The Balkan Peninsula is considered to be a biodiversity hotspot, hosting a particularly high number of endemic species. Despite increased faunistic research in recent decades many areas remain poorly investigated, particularly regarding th...
Branchiobdellidan samples obtained from host crustaceans from 60 localities in the Balkan region (Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia) were studied based on collections of the University of Ljublj...
A mycological survey on fungal diversity following the planned construction of hydropower plants in the Upper Neretva valley took place from 31. 5. to 4. 6. 2023 near Ulog, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The species diversity of fungi in this are...
Large blues are among the most threatened species of butterflies in Europe, known for their unique brood-parasitic life cycles, which include a specific host plant and a host ant. All four species found in Europe (Phengaris arion, Phengari...
The terrestrial isopod Porcellio rucneri was originally described from Croatia in 1966, but has not been collected since its description. Several individuals of this species were collected in 2024 and 2025 near Postojna, Slovenia. These ar...
In Europe, a cosmopolitan dragonfly species Pantala flavescens is scarce. Along the Adriatic coast, only two records, from Montenegro in 1972 and from Croatia in 2010, have been known so far. On 30. 7. 2025, a female of the species was obs...
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