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Aleksandra   Cvetkoska 's picture

Dr. Aleksandra Cvetkoska

Postdoc

Aquatic Ecology


Page last updated: 14-10-2020
  • Key publications
  1. Panagiotopoulos, K., Holtvoeth, J., Kouli, K., Marinova, E., Francke, A., Cvetkoska, A., Jovanovska, E., Lacey, J., Lyons, E.T., Buckel, C., Bertini, A., Donders, T., Just, J., Leicher, N., Leng, M. J., Melles, M., Pancost, R. D., Sadori, L., Tauber, P., Vogel, H., Wagner, B., Wilke, t. (2020) Insights into the evolution of the young Lake Ohrid ecosystem and vegetation succession from a southern European refugium during the Early Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 227: 106044, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106044.
  2. Zaova, D., Cvetkoska, A., Mitic-Kopanja, D., Jovanovska, E., Ognjanova-Rumenova, N., Levkov, Z. (2020) Tertiarius minutulus sp. nov. (Stephanodiscaceae, Bacillariophyta) – a new fossil diatom species from Lake Ohrid. European Journal of Taxonomy, 670: 1–14, doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.670
  3. Wagner, B., Vogel, H., Francke, A., Friedrich, T., Donders, T., Lacey, J.H., Leng, M. J.,  Regattieri, E., Sadori, L., Wilke, T., Zanchetta, G., Albrecht, C., Bertini, A., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Cvetkoska, A., Giaccio, B., et al. (2019) Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years. Nature 573, 256–260 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1529-0.
  4. McNeill, L.C., Shillington, D.J., Carter, G.D.O., Everest, J.D., Gawthorpe, R.L., Miller, C., Phillips, M.P., Collier, R.E.Li., Cvetkoska, A., DeGelder, G., et al. (2019) High-resolution record reveals climate-driven environmental and sedimentary changes in an active rift. Scientific Reports, 9: 3116, doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-40022-w.
  5. Levkov, Z., Vidaković, D., Cvetkoska, A., Mitić-Kopanja, D., Krstić, S., Van de Vijver, B. and Hamilton, P. (2019) Observations of the genus Muelleria (Bacillariophyceae) from the Republic of North Macedonia. Plant Ecology and Evolution, 152: 2, 293-312. doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2019.1611.
  6. Goldenberg Vilar, A., Donders, T.H., Cvetkoska, A., Wagner-Cremer, F. (2018) Seasonality modulates the predictive skills of diatom-based salinity transfer functions. PLOS ONE, 13(11): e0199343, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199343.
  7. Cvetkoska, A., Pavlov, A., Jovanovska, E., Tofilovska, A., Blanco, S., Ector, L., Wagner-Cremer, F., and Levkov, Z. (2018) Spatial patterns of diatom diversity and community structure in ancient Lake Ohrid. Hydrobiologia, 819: 197–215, doi:10.1007/s10750-018-3637-5.
  8. Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Francke, A., Albrecht, C., Baumgarten, H., Bertini, A., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Cvetkoska, A., D'Addabbo, M., Donders, T. H., Föller, K., Giaccio, B., Grazhdani, A., Hauffe, T., Holtvoeth, J., Joannin, S., Jovanovska, E., Just, J., Kouli, K., Koutsodendris, A., Krastel, S., Lacey, J. H., Leicher, N., Leng, M. J., Levkov, Z., Lindhorst, K., Masi, A., Mercuri, A. M., Nomade, S., Nowaczyk, N., Panagiotopoulos, K., Peyron, O., Reed, J. M., Regattieri, E., Sadori, L., Sagnotti, L., Stelbrink, B., Sulpizio, R., Tofilovska, S., Torri, P., Vogel, H., Wagner, T., Wagner-Cremer, F., Wolff, G. A., Wonik, T., Zanchetta, G., and Zhang, X. S. (2017) The environmental and evolutionary history of Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania): Interim results from the SCOPSCO deep drilling project. Biogeosciences, 14, 2033−2054, doi:10.5194/bg-14-2033-2017.
  9. Cvetkoska, A., Jovanovska, E., Francke, A., Tofilovska, S., Vogel, H., Levkov, Z., Donders, T. H., Wagner, B., and Wagner-Cremer, F. (2016) Ecosystem regimes and responses in a coupled ancient lake system from MIS 5b to present: the diatom record of lakes Ohrid and Prespa. Biogeosciences, 13, 3147−3162, doi:10.5194/bg-13-3147-2016.
  10. Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., Hauffe, T., Levkov, Z., Wagner, B., Sulpizio, R., Francke, A., Albrecht, C., and Wilke, T. (2016) Differential resilience of ancient sister lakes Ohrid and Prespa to environmental disturbances during the Late Pleistocene. Biogeosciences, 13, 1149−1161, doi:10.5194/bg-13-1149-2016.
  11. Tofilovska, S., Cvetkoska, A., Jovanovska, E., Ognanova-Rumenova, N., and Levkov, Z. (2016) Two new fossil Cyclotella (Kützing) Brébisson species from Lake Ohrid, Macedonia/Albania. Fottea, 16 (2), 218−233, doi:10.5507/fot.2016.003. 
  12. Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., Tofilovska, S., Ognanova-Rumenova, N., and Levkov, Z. (2016) Description of a new fossil diatom genus, Cribrionella gen. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from Quaternary sediments of Lake Ohrid. Phytotaxa, 252, 31−42, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.252.1.3.
  13. Gligora Udovič, M., Cvetkoska, A., Žutinić, P., Bosak, S., Stanković, I., Špoljarić, I., Mršić, G., Kralj Borojević, K., Ćukurin, A. and Plenković-Moraj, A. (2016) Defining centric diatoms of most relevant phytoplankton functional groups in deep Karst lakes. Hydrobiologia, 1−23, doi: 10.1007/s10750-016-2996-z.    
  14. Levkov, Z.,  Tofilovska, S., Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., and Metzeltin, D. (2016) Revision of the Stauroneis smithii Grunow (Bacillariophyceae) species complex from Macedonia. Botanica Serbica, 40 (2),167−178.
  15. Cvetkoska, A., Hamilton, P.B., and Levkov, Z. (2015) Surirella prespanensis sp. nov. and Surirella hinziae sp. nov., two new diatom (Bacillariophyceae) species from ancient Lake Prespa (Macedonia/Albania/Greece). Fottea, 15 (2), 179−189. doi: 10.5507/fot.2015.018.
  16. Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., Reed, J.M., Wagner, B., Panagiotopoulos, K., Leng, M.J. and Lacey, J.H. (2015) Quaternary climate change and Heinrich events in the southern Balkans - Lake Prespa diatom palaeolimnology from the last interglacial to present. Journal of Paleolimnology, 53 (2), 215−231. doi: 10.1007/s10933-014-9821-3.
  17. Ognjanova-Rumenova, N., Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., and Levkov, Z. (2015) Two new Tertiarius (Bacillariophyta, Coscinodiscophyceae) species from Mariovo Neogene basin, Macedonia. Fottea, 15 (1), 51−62. doi: 10.5507/fot.2015.005.
  18. Vossel, H., Reed, J.M., Houk, V., Cvetkoska, A., and Van De Vijver, B. (2015) Cyclotella paleo-ocellata, a new centric diatom (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Kinneret (Israel). Fottea, 15 (1), 63−75. doi: 10.5507/fot.2015.006.
  19. Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., Reed, J.M., and Wagner, B. (2014) Late Glacial to Holocene climate change and human impact in the Mediterranean - the last ca. 17ka diatom record of Lake Prespa (Macedonia/Albania/Greece). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 406, 22−32. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.010.
  20. Cvetkoska, A., Hamilton, P.B., Ognjanova-Rumenova, N., and Levkov, Z., (2014) Observations of the genus Cyclotella (Kützing) Brébisson in ancient lakes Ohrid and Prespa and a description of two new species C. paraocellata sp. nov. and C. prespanensis sp. nov. Nova Hedwigia Beihefte, 98 (3-4), 313−340. doi: 10.1127/0029-5035/2014/0154.
  21. Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., Hamilton, P.B., and Potapova, M. (2014) The biogeographic distribution of Cavinula (Bacillariophyceae) in North America with the descriptions of two new species. Phytotaxa, 184 (4), 181−207. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.184.4.1.
  22. Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., and Hamilton, P.B. (2014) Surirella subrotunda sp. nov. and Surirella parahelvetica sp. nov., two new diatom (Bacillariophyta) species from Lake Prespa, Macedonia. Phytotaxa, 156 (3), 145−155. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.156.3.5.
  23. Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Krastel, S., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R., Reicherter, K., Leng, M.J., Grazhdani, A., Trajanovski, S., Francke, A., Lindhorst, K., Levkov, Z., Cvetkoska, A., Reed, J.M., Zhang, X., Lacey, J.H., Wonik, T., Baumgarten, H., and Vogel, H. (2014) The SCOPSCO drilling project recovers more than 1.2 million years of history from Lake Ohrid. Scientific Drilling, 17, 19−29. doi:10.5194/sd-17-19-2014.
  24. Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., and Reed, J.M. (2012) Reconstructing Holocene Environmental Change in Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) using diatom as proxies. Macedonian Journal of Ecology and Environment, 14 (1, 2), 7–18.
  25. Reed, J.M., Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., Vogel, H., and Wagner, B. (2010) The last glacial-interglacial cycle in Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania): testing diatom response to climate. Biogeosciences, 7, 4689–4714. doi: 10.5194/bg-7-3083-2010.

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