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Damjan Pantić

Full Professor
Phone: +381 (11) 3053 867
E-mail: damjan.pantic@sfb.bg.ac.rs
Cabinet: 94
Consultation: Monday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Professor Pantić was born in 1963 in Sremska Mitrovica. Faculty of Forestry, the University of Belgrade, Department of Forestry, he enrolled in 1983. He graduated in 1987, magisterium defended 1993, and his doctorate thesis in 2003. He started working at the Faculty of Forestry in Belgrade in 1989, as an assistant trainee in the narrow scientific field (NSF) of Forest Management Planning. He was elected as an assistant in 1994, as an assistant professor in 2004, as an associate professor in 2010, and as a full professor in 2015.

In teaching, he is engaged at all three levels of study, developing basic and introducing new scientific disciplines in the teaching process. For several years, he was hired as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka. He published a basic textbook. As a mentor or member of the commission, he participated in the preparation and defense of 37 diplomas/final theses, 6 magisterium theses, 45 master’s theses, and 15 doctoral dissertations. He is one of the founders of the Center for Inventory, Monitoring, and Forest Management Planning within the Faculty of Forestry.

The scientific activity is related to NSF of Forest Management Planning, specifically to the scientific disciplines Dendrometry, Forest Inventory (including the application of photogrammetry, remote sensing, database creation), and Modeling in forestry. So far, he has published more than 170 bibliographic items, including a basic textbook in Dendrometry, auxiliary textbook literature, 9 chapters in monographs, and 17 papers in journals indexed on the SCI list. As a leader or team member, he participated in the implementation of 21 scientific research projects in the country and abroad. He participated in more than 30 professional projects and studies, which in their essence represent the implementation of scientific knowledge from the NSF Forest Management Planning in the forestry sector.

In international cooperation, he is a member in several sections within the IUFRO Association, as representative of Serbia in ENFIN (European Network of National Forest Inventories), FAO Coordinator for Forest Inventory, and a member of the team for harmonization of national forest inventories of European countries. He has the role of LEAR – (Legal Entity Appointed Representative) of the Faculty of Forestry in the European Commission for H2020.

He is the head of the Chair of Forest Management Planning from 2014, also a editor-in-chief of the journal Bulletin of the Faculty of Forestry and member of the editorial board of the SEEFOR journal. He was the head of doctoral studies at the Department of Forestry, and the representative of the Faculty of Forestry in the Council of Scientific Areas of Biotechnical Sciences at the University of Belgrade.

Professor Pantić is a corresponding member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia (AINS) since 2022.

Research interests

Dendrometry, Forest Inventory, Forestry Modeling, Forest Management Planning.

Engaging Teaching

Basic studies

  1. Dendrometry

Master studies

  1. Research methods and techniques in forest management planning
  2. Forest inventory
  3. Application of aerial photogrammetry and remote sensing in forest inventory

PhD studies

  1. Methodology of scientific research work
  2. Forest inventory
  3. Modern techniques in forest inventory

Selected papers

So far, Damjan Pantić has published over 160 bibliographic items. Some of the most significant are:

  • Pantić D. (1993): Proučavanje uticaja tipa šume na oblik i zapreminu stabala hrasta lužnjaka i poljskog jasena u šumama Ravnog Srema, Magistarski rad, Univerzitet u Beogradu-Šumarski fakultet, Beograd, (1-161).
  • Pantić D. (2003): Izbor optimalnog metoda premera u veštački podognutim sastojinama topole na području Ravnog Srema, Doktorska disertacija, Univerzitet u Beogradu-Šumarski fakultet, Beograd, (1-109).
  • Banković S., Pantić D. (2006): Dendrometrija, udžbenik, Univerzitet u Beogradu-Šumarski fakultet, Beograd, (1-556).
  • Banković S., Medarević M., Pantić D., Petrović N. (2009): The National Forest Inventory of the Republic of Serbia:the growing stock of the Republic of Serbia, Monograph, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of the Republic of Serbia, Forest Directorate, Belgrade, (1-238).
  • Pantić D., Medarević M., Banković S., Obradović S., Šljukić B., Pešić B. (2011): Structural, production and dynamic characteristics of the strict forest reserve “Račanska Šljivovica“ on Mt. Tara, Bulletin of the Faculty of Forestry 103, University of Belgrade-Facultu of Forestry, Belgrade, (93-114).
  • Pantić D., Banković S., Medarević M., Obradović S. (2011): Some characteristics of the stagnation stage in the development of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) trees in selection forests in Serbia, Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, 35 (4): (367-378).
  • Pantić D., Medarević M., Dees M., Borota D., Tubić B., Obradović S., Šljukić B., Čuković D., Marinković M. (2015): Analysis of the growth characteristics of a 450-year-old Silver Fir tree, Archives of Biological Sciences, 67 (1): (155-160).
  • Pantić D., Borota D. (2015): The National Forest Inventory of Serbia: State and possible further directions of development, Bulletin of the Faculty of Forestry 112, University of Belgrade-Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade, (9-32).
  • Pantić D., Medarevic M., Borota D. (2016): National Forest Inventories Reports. Serbia. In: Vidal et al. (Eds.), National Forest Inventories–Assessment of wood availability and use, Springer, Cham., (709-730).
  • Vauhkonen J., Pantic D., Borota D., et al. (2019): Harmonised projections of future Forest Resources in Europe, Annals of Forest Science, 76 (3): (1-12).
  • Gschwantner T., Pantić D., Borota D., et al. (2019): Harmonisation of stem volume estimates in European National Forest Inventories, Annals of Forest Science, 76 (1): (1-23).
  • Pantić D., Dees M., Borota D. (2020): Metodologija druge nacionalne inventure šuma Republike Srbije, Organizacija za hranu i poljoprivredu Ujedinjenih Nacija, Rim, (1-185).
  • Pantić D., Dees M., Borota D. (2020): Analysis Methodology for the Second National Forest Inventory of the Republic of Serbia, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, (1-97).
  • Gschwantner T., Pantić D., Borota D., et al. (2022): Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation, Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 505, 119868.
  • Avitabile V., Pantić D., Borota D., et al. (2024): Harmonised statistics and maps of forest biomass and increment in Europe, Sci Data 11, 274.
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