Matjaž Gregorič

PhD Candidate

email: matjaz<dot>gregoric<at>gmail<dot>com

phone: +386 1 4706 325; fax: +386 1 425 7797

 

Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, P. O. Box 306, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia;

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia                                               Biology B. S. (2008)

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia                                               Biology PhD candidate

 

Outreach

Memberships: International Society of Arachnology, European Society of Arachnology, American Arachnological Society, Biology Students’ Society of Slovenia, Explorers Club.

Ad hoc peer reviews for: Arachnologische Mitteilungen, Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, Entomologia Croatica, Ethology Ecology & Evolution, Journal of Arachnology, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Natura Sloveniae, Naturwissenschaften and Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa.

 

Selected Publications (download from Publications)

Gregorič, M., Kiesbüy, H. C., Quiñones Lebrón, S. G., Rozman, A., Agnarsson, I. & Kuntner, M. Optimal foraging, not biogenetic law, predicts spider orb web allometry. Naturwissenschaften

Agnarsson, I., Gregorič, M., Blackledge, T.A. & Kuntner, M. The phylogenetic placement of Psechridae within Entelegynae and the convergent origin of orb-like spider webs. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Kuntner M., Gregorič M., Zhang S., Kralj-Fišer S. & Li D.  2012. Mating Plugs in Polyandrous Giants: Which Sex Produces Them When How and Why? PLoS ONE 7(7): e40939.

Gregorič M., Agnarsson I., Blackledge T. A. & Kuntner M. 2011. How did the spider cross the river? Behavioral adaptations for river-bridging webs in Caerostris darwini (Araneae: Araneidae). PLoS ONE 6(10): e26847.

Kralj-Fišer S., Schneider J., Justinek Ž., Kalin S., Gregorič M., Pekár S., Kuntner M. 2011. Mate quality, not aggressive spillover, explains sexual cannibalism in a size dimorphic spider. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 66: 145–151.

Gregorič M., Agnarsson I., Blackledge T.A. & Kuntner M. 2011. Darwin’s bark spider: Giant prey in giant orb webs (Caerostris darwini, Araneae: Araneidae)? Journal of Arachnology 39: 287-295.

Kralj-Fišer S., Gregorič M., Zhang S., Li D. & Kuntner M. 2011. Eunuchs are better fighters. Animal Behaviour. 81: 933-939.

Kuntner M., Gregorič M. & Li D. 2010. Mass predicts web asymmetry in Nephila spiders. Naturwissenschaften 97: 1097-1105.

Gregorič M., Kostanjšek R. & Kuntner M. 2010.  Orb web features as taxonomic characters in Zygiella s.l. (Araneae, Araneidae). Journal of Arachnology 38: 319-327.

Kuntner M., Kralj-Fišer S. & Gregorič M. 2010. Ladder webs in orb-web spiders: ontogenetic and evolutionary patterns in Nephilidae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99: 849-866.

Gregorič M. & Kuntner M. 2009. Epigean spider diversity in the classical Karst. Hacquetia 8(1): 67-78.