Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-V

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2. Introduction

   • Alexi Popov, Victor Fet

   Pages 1-8

3. Terrestrial Mammals of Bulgaria: Zoogeographical and Ecological Patterns of Distribution

   • Vasil Popov

   Pages 9-37

4. Fauna, Zoogeography, and Ecology of Birds in Bulgaria

   • Zlatozar Boev, Boyan Milchev, Vasil Popov

   Pages 39-84

5. Amphibians and Reptiles of Bulgaria: Fauna, Vertical Distribution, Zoogeography, and Conservation

   • Boyan P. Petrov

   Pages 85-107

6. Fauna and Distribution of Fishes in Bulgaria

   • Tihomir Stefanov

   Pages 109-140

7. Fauna And Zoogeography Of Marine, Freshwater, And Terrestrial Mollusks (Mollusca) In Bulgaria

   • Zdravko Hubenov

   Pages 141-198

8. Fauna, Ecology, and Zoogeography of Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) of Bulgaria

   • Venelin Beschovski, Milen Marinov

   Pages 199-232

9. Fauna and Zoogeography of the Orthopterid Insects (Embioptera, Dermaptera, Mantodea, Blattodea, Isoptera, and Orthoptera) in Bulgaria

   • Alexi Popov

   Pages 233-296

10. Biogeography of the Endemic Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the Central and Eastern Balkan Peninsula

    • Borislav Guéorguiev

    Pages 297-356

11. Fauna and Zoogeography of Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Bulgaria

    • Vladimir Sakalian, Mario Langourov

    Pages 357-378

12. Fauna and Zoogeography of Myriapoda in Bulgaria

    • Pavel Stoev

    Pages 379-404

13. Fauna and Zoogeography of Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) in Bulgaria

    • Victor Fet, Michael E. Soleglad

    Pages 405-422

14. Spatial Niches of Opiliones (Arachnida) from Vitosha Mountains, Bulgaria

    • Plamen Mitov

    Pages 423-446

15. Fauna and Zoogeography of Spiders of the Family Linyphiidae (Araneae) in Bulgaria

    • Christo Deltshev

    Pages 447-467

16. Fauna and Zoogeography of Wolf Spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) in Bulgaria

    • Gergin Blagoev

    Pages 469-480

17. Haplogyne Spiders (Araneae) in Bulgaria: Faunistic and Zoogeographical Analysis

    • Stoyan Lazarov

    Pages 481-492

18. Terrestrial Cave Animals in Bulgaria

    • Petar Beron

    Pages 493-526

19. Stygofauna of the Fresh Waters in Bulgaria

    • Ivan Pandourski

    Pages 527-536

20. Biodiversity and Ecology of the Bulgarian Black Sea Invertebrates

    • Vassil Golemansky

    Pages 537-554

The book includes 22 chapters by 28 authors united by the single theme: biogeography and ecology of Bulgaria. From the single-celled organisms in the Black Sea sand to the endemic cave crustaceans, from the mountain glacial relict insects to the most diverse bird fauna in Europe, the unique fauna of Bulgaria has been a subject of study of mostly Bulgarian zoologists for more than a century.

This is the first monograph in English broadly addressing all vertebrateand many key invertebrate groups of Bulgaria, their faunistics, origin, geographical and ecological distribution, and conservation issues are addressed by the experts on each group.

• Balkan peninsula
• Biogeography
• Bulgaria
• Crustacea
• Fauna
• Flora
• Insecta
• Mollusca
• Myriapoda
• Orthoptera
• Vegetation
• Zoogeography
• biodiversity
• classification
• ecology

• Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, USA

  Victor Fet

• National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

  Alexi Popov

Dr. Victor Fet is a Professor of Biology at Marshall University, West Virginia, USA. He was a co-editor of Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994) and authored dozens of research publications on animal biogeography, systematics and evolution. He is also one of the world’s leading experts on scorpions and one of the authors of the Catalog of Scorpions of the World (New York, 2000).

Dr. Alexi Popov is the Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria. He authored and co-authored 94 research publications on insect faunistics, taxonomy, ecology, and conservation. He served as a Secretary and/or the Member of the Editorial Board of Historia naturalis bulgarica, Acta entomologica bulgarica, and Journal of Neuropterology. In the project "Fauna Europaea", Dr. Popov leads the team of 30 entomologists working on the insects of Bulgaria.

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