Developing and managing bryophyte colletion BEOU: achievements until 2019

Abstract

Bryophyte collection within the Herbarium of University of Belgrade (BEOU) is largest in Serbia and it is still ongrowing. It is estimated that contains about 18000 specimens within two working collections. Work on the inventory and digitization has begun, and 7506 specimens have been processed up to day. Collection has been established in the beginning of the 1990s, hence almost all stored specimens were collected after 1990. So far, it contains only 225 specimens from the earlier period. More than half (4242) of the material is from the area of Serbia, while the rest is from 46 countries from 6 different continents. However, majority of the foreign material is from Europe (e.g. Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina etc.). Herbarium contains 797 different taxa and 294 genera. More than 60% of the records in Bryo BEOU were collected by Sabovljević and his co-workers. Most of the records were made during spring and summer months, with peaks in May and July. Current period of bryological research has brought many new records which represent important source of information, especially for Serbia and other Balkan countries. Nevertheless, collection is expanding over time and the work is not close to the final yet.