Back to the Roots or Back to the Future?: Towards a New Synthesis Between Taxanomic, Ecological & Biogeographical Approaches in Carabidology. Abstract Volume & Progamme Xii. (Faunistica)

This book, dedicated to Professor Emeritus George Ball from the University of Alberta, Canada, presents a collection of 30 papers held at the XIII European Carabidologists Meeting in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (August, 2007). The meeting was attended by 90 specialists from 20 countries of Europe, Asia and America. Traditionally, the proceedings volumes of the European Carabidologists Meeting have become important milestones outlining the latest trends and achievements in carabidology. The aim of the organisers was to invite specialists from different countries and scientific schools to attempt most complete representation of both traditional and innovative approaches and methods in studying ground beetles. Twentieth century carabidology in the Nearctic region / George E. Ball From Latreille to DNA systematics towards a modern synthesis for carabidology / Thorsten Assmann ... [et al.] New genera of Western Hemisphere Pseudomorphini (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) with notes on their distributions, ways of life, and hypothesized relationships / Terry L. Erwin & Christy J. Geraci Larval chaetotaxy in the genus Rhysodes Dalman, 1823 and the position of Rhysodidae within Adephaga (Coleoptera) / Kirill V. Makarov Studies on genus Speluncarius, with description of a new subgenus and notes on the systematic position of S. (Hypogium) albanicus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pterostichini) / Borislav V. Guéorguiev & Roman Lohaj Comparative antennal morphometry and sensilla distribution pattern in three species of Siagoninae (Coleoptera, Carabidae) / Anita Giglio ... [et al.] Thoracic endoskeleton of carabid larvae (Coleoptera, Carabidae) / Artjem A. Zaitsev Multilayer structural colours in Poecilus lepidus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) / Dietrich Mossakowski ... [et al.] Heredity of the elytral colour in adults of Poecilus lepidus Leske (Coleoptera, Carabidae) / Wilfried Paarmann ... [et al.] Patterns of molecular variability in carabid beetles mostly from the Baltic Sea coast / Nordfried Kamer, Wolfgang Dormann & Dietrich Mossakowski Beetles (Coleoptera) in high Arctic / Yurii I. Chernov & Olga L. Makarova A history of ground-beetle faunas of West Siberia and the Urals during the late Pleistocene to Holocene / Evgeniy Zinovyev Corrigenda to the book "The genus Carabus in Europe. A synthesis", edited by H. Turin, L. Penev & A. Casale (Pensoft & EIS, 2003) / Achille Casale, Hans Turin & Lyubomir Penev Evolution of biennial life cycles in ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of the western Palaearctic / Andrey V. Matalin Adaptive radiation of carabid larvae (Coleoptera, Carabidae) / Inessa Kh. Sbarova Life cycles in the ground-beetle tribe Pogonini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Lake Elton region, Russia / Andrey V. Matalin & Kirill V. Makarov Defensive strategies against predators in carabid beetles / Tullia Zetto Brandmayr ... [et al.] Composition of weed community determines carabid assemblage / Pavel Saska A real time extinction : the case of Carabus clatratus in Italy (Coleoptera, Carabidae) / Achille Casale & Enrico Busato The distribution, habitat, and the nature conservation value of a Natura 2000 beetle, Carabus hungaricus Fabricius, 1792 in Hungary / Sándor Bérces ... [et al.] Carabidae as monitoring subject in the light of EU Natura 2000 (Habitats Directive) / Erik Arndt Correcting for detection biases in the pitfall trapping of ground beetles (Coleopetera, Carabidae) / Evan D. Esch ... [et al.] Towards combined methods for recording ground beetles : pitfall traps, hand picking and sifting in Mediterranean habitats of Israel / Anika Timm ... [et al.] Behavioural patterns of nocturnal carabid beetles determined by direct observations under red-light conditions / Claudia Drees, Andrea Matern & Thorsten Assmann Influences of succession and harvest intensity on ground beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) populations in the boreal mixed-wood forests of Alberta, Canada : species matter / Joshua M. Jacobs, Timothy T. Work & John R. Spence Carabid beetle movements in a clear-cut area with retention groups of trees / Jaroslaw Sklodowski Patterns of succession and conservation value of post-industrial areas in central Poland based on carabid fauna (Coleoptera, Carabidae) / Axel Schwerk & Jan Szyszko Patterns of urbanisation in the city of Sofia as shown by carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae), ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), and terrestrial gastropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda Terrestria) / Lyubomir Penev ... [et al.].