dr. sc. Sven Horvatić

Biography

In 2010, Sven Horvatić enrolled in the Faculty of Science's undergraduate Environmental Sciences programme. He finished his undergraduate studies in 2013 and then enrolled in a master programme in Experimental Biology (Zoology), which he completed in 2015. During his college years, Sven developed an interest in acoustic communication, particularly the sound generation and acoustic behaviour of freshwater and marine fish (gobies). Sven has since had the opportunity to conduct bioacoustic research on gobies for his Ph.D. thesis. Sven finished his doctoral programme (Biology) at alma mater in 2021, defending a doctoral dissertation (thesis title: Acoustic characteristics and phylogenetic relationships of gobies from the family Gobiidae (Teleostei; Gobiiformes). The Ph.D. thesis focused on the sound production of invasive Ponto-Caspian gobies (Ponticola kessleri, Neogobius fluviatilis, and N. melanostomus). Sven has co-authored 21 original scientific works, seven of which I am the first author.

Throughout the academic career, Sven was involved in a number of research activities (student, scientific, and professional) and spent a significant amount of time in the field investigating marine and freshwater ecosystems and collecting data. In the future, he intends to study the functional interaction between invasive species and passive acoustic control measures in aquatic environments (traps, telemetry, etc.). Furthermore, Sven has chosen to focus his academic research on understanding the vocal behaviour and acoustic mechanisms of soniferous fish, as well as exploring marine/freshwater soundscapes, with an emphasis on the spatiotemporal diversity of vocal species. Sven works as an expert associate on research projects in Croatian freshwaters, including fish monitoring programmes and endemic fauna conservation studies. Finally, Sven works as a university assistant, teaching practicums in vertebrate anatomy and freshwater ichthyology.

For more details, please visit personal website: https://svenhorvatic0.wixsite.com/website

Published papers recorded in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography Database

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List of select publications

1. Horvatić, S., Parmentier, E., Malavasi, S., Amorim, M. P. C., Fonseca, P. J., & Zanella, D. (2023) Endemic fish calling: Acoustics and reproductive behaviour of the Neretva dwarf goby Orsinigobius croaticus. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10673. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10673
2. Buj, I., Pleše, S., Onorato, L., Marčić, Z., Mustafić, P., Zanella, D., Ćaleta, M., Ivić, L., Novoselec, L., Renić, N., Horvatić, S., Karlović, R., Tvrdinić, G. (2023) The Ichthyofauna of the Bednja River, Ichthyological ‘Hot Spot’ in the Danube Basin—Exceptional Diversity under Strong Threats. Water. 15, 311. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15020311
3. Marčić, Z., Jerković, A., Ćaleta, M., Buj, I., Zanella, D., Horvatić, S., Mustafić, P. (2022) Early Development of the Endemic Delminichthys krbavensis (Leuciscidae, Cypriniformes) from a Karstic Field in Croatia. Diversity. 14, 393. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050393
4. Horvatić, S., Malavasi, Vukić, J., Šanda, R., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M., Lorenzoni, M., Mustafić, P., Buj, I., Onorato, L., Ivić, L., Cavraro, F., Zanella, D. (2021) Correlation between acoustic divergence and phylogenetic distance in soniferous European gobiids (Gobiidae; Gobius lineage). Plos One.
5. Buj, I., Knjaz, M., Ćaleta, M., Marčić, Z., Ivić, L., Onorato, L., Šanda, R., Vukić, J., Horvatić, S., Zanella, D., & Mustafić, P. (2021). Phylogeographic pattern, genetic diversity, and evolutionary history of the enigmatic freshwater fish species Aulopyge huegelii (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 00; 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12574
6. Horvatić, S., Zanella, D., Marčić, Z., Mustafić, P., Buj, B., Onorato, O., Ivić, L., Karlović, K., Ćaleta, M. (2021) First report of the Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 in the Drava River, Croatia. Aquatic Invasions.
7. Raguž, L., Buj, I., Marčić, Z., Veble, V., Ivić, L., Zanella, D., Horvatić, S., Mustafić, P., Ćaleta, M., Sabolić, M. (2021). First look into the evolutionary history, phylogeographic and population genetic structure of the Danube barbel in Croatia. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems. 422, 13.
8. Ivić, L., Buj, I., Raguž, L., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M., Zanella, D., Mustafić, P., Horvatić, S. (2021). Diversity and structure of trout populations (Salmo sp., Salmonidae, Actinopteri) in the Žumberak-Samoborsko Gorje Nature Park in Croatia. Fundamental and Applied Limnology. (194), 3; 215–225.
9. Marčić, Z., Abramović, A., Ćaleta, M., Buj, I., Zanella, D., Horvatić, S., Mustafić, P. (2020). Early development of the endemic dace Telestes karsticus (Leuciscidae, Cypriniformes) in a Dinaric karst stream in Croatia. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. (37), 1; 99–105.
10. Tutman, P., Zanella, D., Horvatić, S., Hamzić, A., Adrović, A., Dulčić, J., Glamuzina, B. (2020). Freshwater gobies (Gobiidae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina: a review of the current status and distribution. Journal of Vertebrate Biology. (69), 4; 1–15.
11. Piria, M., Zanella, D., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M., Horvatić, S., Jakšić, G., Buj, I., Paunović, M., Simonović, P., Mustafić, P. (2020). Has the racer goby Babka gymnotrachelus (Kessler, 1857) failed to invade the Danube tributaries, the Sava and Drava Rivers? Fundamental and Applied Limnology. (194), 3; 227–235.
12. Buj, I., Raguž, L., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M., Duplić, A., Zanella, D., Mustafić, P., Ivić, L., Horvatić, S., Karlović R. (2020). Plitvice Lakes National park harbors ancient, yet endangered diversity of trout (genus Salmo). Journal of Applied Ichthyology. (37), 1: 20–37.
13. Buj, I, Mustafić, P., Ćaleta, M., Marčić, Z., Ivić, L.,  Žalac, S., Zanella, D., Karlović, R., Horvatić, S., Raguž, L. (2020). Peculiar occurrence of Cobitis bilineata Canestrini, 1865 and Sabanejewia larvata (De Filippi, 1859) (Cobitidae, Actinopteri) in the Danube River basin in Croatia. Fundamental and Applied Limnology. 194; 201–213.
14. Ćaleta, M., Marčić, Z., Buj, I., Zanella, D., Mustafić, P., Duplić, A., Horvatić, S. (2019). A review of extant croatian freshwater fish and lampreys, Annotated list and distribution. Croatian Journal of Fisheries. (77), 3; 137–234.
15. Buj, I., Marčić, Z., Čavlović, K., Ćaleta, M., Tutman, P., Zanella, D., Duplić, Al., Raguž, L., Ivić, L., Horvatić, S., Mustafić, P. (2019). Multilocus phylogenetic analysis helps to untangle the taxonomic puzzle of chubs (genus Squalius: Cypriniformes: Actinopteri) in the Adriatic basin of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society. (189), 3; 953–974.
16. Horvatić, S., Bem, L., Malavasi, S., Marčić, Z., Buj, I., Mustafić, P., Ćaleta, M., Zanella, D. (2019). Comparative analysis of sound production between the bighead goby Ponticola kessleri and the round goby Neogobius melanostomus: implications for phylogeny and systematics. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 102, 727–739.
17. Horvatić, S., Malavasi, S., Parmentier, E., Marčić, Z., Buj, I., Mustafić, P., Ćaleta, M., Smederevac-Lalić, M., Skorić, S. i Zanella, D. (2019). Acoustic communication during reproduction in the basal gobioid Amur sleeper and the putative sound production mechanism. Journal of Zoology. (309), 4; 269-279.
18. Zanella, D.; Marčić, Z.; Ćaleta, M.; Buj, I.; Zrnčić, S.; Horvatić, S.; Mustafić, P. (2017). Early development of the freshwater goby Orsinogobius croaticus endemic to Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Cybium. (41), 4; 335-342.
19. Horvatić, S., Marčić, Z., Mrakovčić, M., Mustafić, P., Buj, I., Ćaleta, M., Zanella, D. (2017). Threatened Fishes of the World: Orsinogobius croaticus (Mrakovčić, Kerovec, Mišetić and Schneider, 1996) (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Croatian Journal of Fisheries. (75), 1; 23-30.
20. Mustafić, P., Buj, I., Opašić, M., Zanella, D., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M., Šanda, R., Horvatić, S., Mrakovčić, M. (2017). Morphological comparison of Delminichthys ghetaldii (Steindachner, 1882), D. adspersus (Heckel, 1843), D. jadovensis (Zupančič & Bogutskaya, 2002) and D. krbavensis (Zupančič & Bogutskaya, 2002), endemic species of the Dinaric karst, Croatia. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. (33), 2; 256-262.
21. Horvatić, S., Cavraro, F., Zanella, D., Malavas, S. (2016). Sound production in the Ponto-Caspian goby Neogobius fluviatilis and acoustic affinities within the Gobius lineage: implications for phylogeny. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society. (117), 3; 564-573.

Professional memberships

Croation Ichthiologycal Society (HID), Zagreb

International Bioacoustics Council (IBAC)

BIOM, Zagreb (2016 — 2018)

20 000 Leagues Society, Zadar (2016 — 2017)

 

List of select projects

Scientific projects

2020 – 2024: ADRICOR - Impact of climate change on coral biodiversity - research of mass mortality events in  the Adriatic Sea (director: prof. P. Kružić). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia

2023 – 2024: Uncovering the rapid diversification and evolution of highly endemic Mediterranean freshwater fishes (director: prof. H. Svardal). The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA).

2019 – 2020: Joint Danube Survey 4 (director: I. Liska). International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), Wien, Austria.

 

Applied projects

2020 – 2020: Analiza bioloških metoda ocjene ekološkog stanja za ribe u europskim  interkalibracijskim          tipovima rijeka Panonske i Dinaridske ekoregije; Analiza utjecaja  okolišnih čimbenika i antropogenih opterećenja na biološke elemente kakvoće (in Eng. “Analysis of biological methods for assessing the ecological status of fish in the European  intercalibration types of rivers of the Pannonian and Dinari ecoregions; Analysis of the influence of environmental factors and anthropogenic loads on the biological elements of quality”) (director: prof D. Zanella). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia. In Croatian.

2018 – 2021: Sustavno ispitivanje bioloških elemenata kakvoće u površinskim kopenenim vodama u 2018., 2019., i   2020. godini (in Eng. “Systematic testing of biological quality elements in surface ground waters in 2018, 2019, and 2020”) (director: prof. I. Buj). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia. In Croatian.

2018 – 2021: Measures - Upravljanje i obnova vodenih ekoloških koridora za migratorne vrste riba u Dunavskom    slijevu (in Eng. “Measures - management and restoration of aquatic ecological corridors for migratory fish species in the Danube basin”) (director: prof. M. Ćaleta). Croatian ichthyologic society (HID), Zagreb. In Croatian.

2019 – 2021: Usluge analize postojećih podataka o stranim vrstama i IAS s razradom metodologije kartiranja, usluge kartiranja stranih vrsta i IAS s izradom, testiranjem i doradom programa praćenja za IAS,  te usluge analize putova unošenja i širenja IAS grupa 13 „Kartiranje stranih i invazivnih stranih vrsta slatkovodnih riba te izrada, dorada i testiranje programa praćenja (in Eng. “Services of analysis of existing data on foreign species and IAS with elaboration of mapping methodology, services of mapping of foreign   species and IAS with creation, testing and refinement of monitoring programs for IAS, and services of analysis of paths of introduction and spread of IAS group 13 "Mapping of foreign and invasive foreign species of freshwater fish and creation, refinement and testing of monitoring programs”) (director: prof. M. Ćaleta). Croatian ichthyologic society (HID), Zagreb. In Croatian.

2018 – 2019: Stručna podloga za Plan upravljanja (s akcijskim planom) za vrste roda Salmo   (in Eng. Expert     study for the Management Plan (with action plan) for species of the genus Salmo”) (director: prof. I. Buj). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia. In Croatian.

2018 – 2019:  Usluga izrade stručne podloge – svijetlica i kapelska svijetlica u sklopu projekta “Izrada prijedloga Planova upravljanja strogo zaštićenim vrstama (s akcijskim planovima)” (in Eng. “The service of creating a professional background - Croatian Dace and Karst Dace as part of the project "Development of proposals for Management Plans for Strictly Protected Species (with action plans)”) (director: prof. Z. Marčić). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia. In Croatian.

2017 – 2019: Ekološke značajke, struktura ihtiopopulacija i prijedlozi za ustaljenje autohtone ihtiofaune             Plitvičkih jezera (in Eng. “Ecological characteristics, structure of ichthyopopulations and proposals for the establishment of autochthonous ichthyofauna of Plitvice Lakes) (director: prof. M. Mrakovčić). Croatian ichthyologic society (HID), Zagreb. In Croatian.

2016 – present: Research and optimization of ichthyocenosis of Butoniga Reservoir for the purpose of reducing the trophic level (director: prof. P. Mustafić). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia.

2016 – present: Monitoring project of Croatian freshwater ichthyofauna (zone E – Adriatic) (director: prof. P. Mustafić). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia.

2016 – 2021:Biological study of surface water of the hydropower systems Varaždin, Čakovec and Dubrava        (director: prof. P. Mustafić). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia.

2016 – present: Research and optimization of ichthyocenosis of Butoniga Reservoir for the purpose of reducing the trophic level (director: prof. P. Mustafić). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia

2016 – present:  Monitoring project of Croatian freshwater ichthyofauna (zone E – Adriatic) (director: prof. P. Mustafić). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia

2016 – 2021: Biological study of surface water of the hydropower systems Varaždin, Čakovec and Dubrava (director: prof. P. Mustafić). Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Biology, Croatia

Past employments

2017. - present

Professional associate, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (Croatia)

2016. - 2017.

Research fellow, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (Croatia)