Prof. Nina Šajna

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

University of Maribor, Slovenia

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2010 Ph.D., Biology Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Slovenia

2003 B.Sc., Biology and Mathematics ,Faculty for Education, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Publications (Selected)

1. Kreća, M., Šajna, N., & Šipek, M. (2025). Response of the Invasive Alien Plant Duchesnea indica (Andrews) Teschem. to Different Environmental and Competitive Settings. Plants, 14(11), 1563.
2. Horvat, E., Šipek, M., & Sajna, N. (2024). Urban hedges facilitate spontaneous woody plants. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 96, 128336.
3. Šipek, M., & Šajna, N. (2024). Lowland forest fragment characteristics and anthropogenic disturbances determine alien plant species richness and composition. Biological Invasions, 26(5), 1595-1614.
4. Šajna, N., Urek, T., Kušar, P., & Šipek, M. (2023). The Importance of Thermally Abnormal Waters for Bioinvasions—A Case Study of Pistia stratiotes. Diversity, 15(3), 421.
5. Šipek, M., Horvat, E., & Šajna, N. (2023). Eastward range expansion of the ragweed leaf beetle (Ophraella communa LeSage, 1986)(Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) in Slovenia. BioInvasions Records, 12(Št. 2), 615-623.
6. Šipek, M., Ravnjak, T., & Šajna, N. (2023). Understorey species distinguish late successional and ancient forests after decades of minimum human intervention: A case study from Slovenia. Forest Ecosystems, 10, 100096.
7. Šipek, M., Kutnar, L., Marinšek, A., & Šajna, N. (2022). Contrasting responses of alien and ancient forest indicator plant species to fragmentation process in the temperate lowland forests. Plants, 11(23), 3392.
8. Šipek, M., Horvat, E., & Sajna, N. (2022). First records of seed beetles Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) and M. tonkineus (Pic, 1904) from three Balkan countries. BioInvasions Record, 11(1).
9. Šipek, M., Horvat, E., Vitasović Kosić, I., & Šajna, N. (2022). Presence of alien Prunus serotina and Impatiens parviflora in lowland forest fragments in NE Slovenia. Šumarski list, 146(Št. 5/6), 215-224.
10. Horvat, E., & Sajna, N. (2021). Exploring the impact of a non-native seed predator on the seed germination of its non-native host. Biological Invasions, 23(12), 3703-3717.
11. Jelinčić, A., Šajna, N., Zgorelec, Ž., & Perčin, A. (2022). Bracken-induced increase in soil P availability, along with its high P acquisition efficiency, enables it to invade P-deficient meadows. Journal of Plant Ecology, 15(4), 783-794.
12. Horvat, E., & Sajna, N. (2021). First record of the Asian seed beetle Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839)(Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) in Croatia. BioInvasions Records, 10(2), 477-482.
13. Sipek, M., Perčin, A., Zgorelec, Ž., & Sajna, N. (2021). Morphological plasticity and ecophysiological response of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea, Lamiaceae) in contrasting natural habitats within its native range. Plant Biosystems-An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, 155(1), 136-147.
14. Fišer, Ž., Aronne, G., Aavik, T., Akin, M., Alizoti, P., Aravanopoulos, F., ... & Zippel, E. (2021). ConservePlants: An integrated approach to conservation of threatened plants for the 21st Century. Research ideas and outcomes., 7, 1-29.
15. Šipek, M., & Šajna, N. (2020). Public opinions and perceptions of peri-urban plant invasion: the role of garden waste disposal in forest fragments. Management of Biological Invasions, 11(4), 733.
16. Sajna, N. (2019). First record of non-native Asian seed beetle, Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhraeus, 1839) and its parasitoid. Slovenia. BioInvasions Records, 8(3), 515-520.
17. Ciringer, T., Martín, C., Šajna, N., Kaligarič, M., & Ambrožič-Dolinšek, J. (2018). Cryopreservation of an endangered Hladnikia pastinacifolia Rchb. by shoot tip encapsulation-dehydration and encapsulation-vitrification. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant, 54(6), 565-575.
18. Kozel, P., Pipan, T., Šajna, N., Polak, S., & Novak, T. (2017). Mitigating the conflict between pitfall-trap sampling and conservation of terrestrial subterranean communities in caves. International Journal of Speleology, 46(3), 4.

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