History

We started with Biologer during a project for mapping pond turtles in Serbia. Although BioRaS portal was already collecting biodiversity data from Serbia it was regularly crashing and the software was closed for upgrades. BioRaS was finally abandoned in 2022 and not available online anymore. Furthermore, we wanted to create mobile application to collect data directly from the field and this was not possible in any platform available at that moment in Serbia. Thus three of us (Ana, Nenad and Miloš) discussed the idea about making new biodiversity software and Nenad managed to finish the first working version by 2018 and made it available at biologer.org. Note that this original page is redirected to biologer.rs in 2021, hosting Serbian Biologer Community. In this initial phase we received some logistics from Biological Society "Dr Sava Petrović" and Universities of Belgrade and Niš.

In 2019, with Hyla organisation joining our team (with Toni and Ivona), Croatian Biologer Community become available at biologer.hr. Bosnia and Herzegovina was next to follow with BIO.LOG organisation and Dejan making most important preparations for biologer.ba.

A lot of improvement to the web and Android application came with financial support through the project lead by Hyla in 2019. BIO.LOG supported creating iOS application in 2021, with Nikola Popović accepting to develop this software. In the same year Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia forked Biologer (this project is now abandoned). With their help we were able to create unique taxonomic tree at taxa.biologer.org used by local Biologer communities. Sine this moment, web developement is taken by Nikola Vasić.

In 2023 Montenegro joined our Biologer Communities in the course of a small invasive plants project led by Bojana Mijović.

In 2024 we started working on RBiologer package for R statistical software, that could be used to download data and run various analyses. iOS application is improved and the developement is taken by Jelena Krmar.

At the end of 2025 the users of Android application could collect data from timed counts! This allow us to collect not only data on species occurrence, but also on the number of individuals of each species. And such data are indispensible for long term monitoring protocols!