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Relict Species

Phylogeography and Conservation Biology

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Jan Christian Habel

    1. Musée National d´Histoire Naturelle Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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  2. Thorsten Assmann

    1. Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

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  • The book provides an unique overview at the interface between phylogeography and conservation biology of relict species
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Table of contents (28 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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    1. Relict Species: From Past to Future

      • Jan C. Habel, Thorsten Assmann, Thomas Schmitt, John C. Avise
      Pages 1-5

  3. Climate and Ecosystems

    1. The Changing Climate: Past, Present, Future

      • Markus Quante
      Pages 9-56

  5. Ancient Relicts

    1. Review: The Dark Side of Relict Species Biology: Cave Animals as Ancient Lineages

      • Thorsten Assmann, Achille Casale, Claudia Drees, Jan C. Habel, Andrea Matern, Andreas Schuldt
      Pages 91-103

    2. Relicts Within the Genus Complex Astragalus/Oxytropis (Fabaceae), and the Comparison of Diversity by Objective Means

      • Matthias Schlee, Markus Göker, Guido W. Grimm, Vera Hemleben
      Pages 105-117

    3. Relict Populations and Endemic Clades in Palearctic Reptiles: Evolutionary History and Implications for Conservation

      • Ulrich Joger, Uwe Fritz, Daniela Guicking, Svetlana Kalyabina-Hauf, Zoltan T. Nagy, Michael Wink
      Pages 119-143

    4. Niche Conservatism among Allopatric Species of the Grasshopper Genus Afrophlaeoba Jago, 1983 in the Eastern Arc Mountains (Tanzania)

      • Axel Hochkirch
      Pages 145-158

    5. Conservation Genetics and Phylogeography of the Threatened Corsican and Barbary Red Deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus and C. e. barbarus)

      • Frank E. Zachos, Ghaiet M. Hajji, San S. Hmwe
      Pages 159-171

    6. Phylogeographic Analyses of a Boreal-Temperate Ectomycorrhizal Basidiomycete, Amanita Muscaria, Suggest Forest Refugia in Alaska During the Last Glacial Maximum

      • József Geml, Rodham E. Tulloss, Gary A. Laursen, Nina A. Sazanova, D. Lee Taylor
      Pages 173-186

  6. Glacial Relicts

    1. Review Refugial Areas and Postglacial Colonizations in the Western Palearctic

      • Jan C. Habel, Claudia Drees, Thomas Schmitt, Thorsten Assmann
      Pages 189-197

    2. Multiple Glacial Refuges of Unwinged Ground Beetles in Europe: Molecular Data Support Classical Phylogeographic Models

      • Claudia Drees, Andrea Matern, Goddert von Oheimb, Thomas Reimann, Thorsten Assmann
      Pages 199-215

    3. Postglacial Recolonization of Continental Europe by the Pygmy Shrew (Sorex minutus) Inferred From Mitochondrial and Y Chromosomal DNA Sequences

      • Allan D. McDevitt, Glenn Yannic, Ramugondo V. Rambau, Thomas J. Hayden, Jeremy B. Searle
      Pages 217-236

  7. Relicts Since Postglacial Times

    1. Are Disjunct Alpine and Arctic-Alpine Animal and Plant Species in the Western Palearctic Really “Relics of a Cold Past”?

      • Thomas Schmitt, Christoph Muster, Peter Schönswetter
      Pages 239-252

    2. Linking Genetics and Ecology: Reconstructing the History of Relict Populations of an Endangered Semi-Aquatic Beetle

      • Andrea Matern, Claudia Drees, Alfried P. Vogler, Thorsten Assmann
      Pages 253-265

    3. Peripheral Relict Populations of Widespread Species; Evolutionary Hotspots or Just More of the Same?

      • Anna Cassel-Lundhagen
      Pages 267-275

    4. Genetic Differentiation Between and Among Refugia

      • Gabriel Nève, Régine Verlaque
      Pages 277-294

    5. Population Genetic Structure of Two Threatened Dragonfly Species (Odonata: Anisoptera) as Revealed by RAPD Analysis

      • Mónica A. Amorín, Marta Vila, Adolfo C. Rivera
      Pages 295-308

    6. Review Molecular Methods: Blessing or Curse?

      • Aline Finger, Charlotte Klank
      Pages 309-320

  8. Conservation of Relict Species

    1. The EU Habitats Directive and the German Natura 2000 Network of Protected Areas as Tool for Implementing the Conservation of Relict Species

      • Marco Zimmermann, Mareike Vischer-Leopold, Götz Ellwanger, Axel Ssymank, Eckhard Schröder
      Pages 323-340
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About this book

Mankind has evolved both genetically and culturally to become a most successful and dominant species. But we are now so numerous and our technology is so p- erful that we are having major effects on the planet, its environment, and the b- sphere. For some years prophets have warned of the possible detrimental consequences of our activities, such as pollution, deforestation, and overfishing, and recently it has become clear that we are even changing the atmosphere (e. g. ozone, carbon dioxide). This is worrying since the planet’s life systems are involved and dependent on its functioning. Current climate change – global w arming – is one recognised consequence of this larger problem. To face this major challenge, we will need the research and advice of many disciplines – Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biology, and Sociology – and particularly the commitment of wise politicians such as US Senator Al Gore. An important aspect of this global problem that has been researched for several decades is the loss of species and the impoverishment of our ecosystems, and hence their ability to sustain themselves, and more particularly us! Through evolutionary time new species have been generated and some have gone extinct. Such extinction and regeneration are moulded by changes in the earth’s crust, atmosphere, and resultant climate. Some extinctions have been massive, particularly those asso- ated with catastrophic meteoric impacts like the end of the Cretaceous Period 65Mya.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Musée National d´Histoire Naturelle Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Jan Christian Habel

  • Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

    Thorsten Assmann

About the editors

Jan Habel:

  • Study of environmental sciences, major subjects: ecology, conservation biology, environmental politics (University of Dresden-Zittau and University of Lüneburg, 2003)

  • Diploma thesis on habitat fragmentation and population ecology of butterflies (University of Lüneburg, 2003)

  • Doctoral thesis on the influence of natural factors and land use changes on the genetic structure of xerothermic animals (University of Trier, 2006)

  • Since 2006 working on postglacial relicts, molecular biogeography and conservation genetics (Musée national d´histoire naturelle Luxembourg)

Thorsten Assmann:

  • Doctoral thesis on phylogeography of ground beetles (University of Münster, 1994)

  • Postdoctoral thesis on the population history of ground beetles (University of Osnabrück, 2000)

  • Since 2001 professor at the University of Lüneburg

  • Since 2002 director of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Chemistry

  • 2003-2006 dean of the Faculty of Environmental Chemistry

  • Since 2006 full professor at the University of Lüneburg (Animal Ecology)

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