Overview
- Collection of original reviews on all vertebrate and many key invertebrate animal groups in Bulgaria
- Addresses faunistics, origin, geographical and ecological distribution, and conservation issues
- The first monograph in English covering the biogeography of all regions of Bulgaria
Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae (MOBI, volume 82)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria
Editors: Victor Fet, Alexi Popov
Series Title: Monographiae Biologicae
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5781-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4417-5Published: 21 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8856-5Published: 29 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5781-6Published: 05 September 2007
Series ISSN: 0077-0639
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1729
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 687
Topics: Ecology, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Zoology, Animal Ecology, Nature Conservation