Carabid Beetles: Ecology and Evolution [Paperback]

One. Biogeography and Evolutionary Ecology.- Postglacial colonization of middle Europe by Carabus auronitens as revealed by population genetics (Coleoptera, Carabidae).- Phylogenetic relations and biogeography of the genera of Pseudomorphinae (Coleoptera, Carabidae).- The evolutionary history of the genus Abax (Coleoptera, Carabidae).- The carabid body plan: a functional interpretation.- Additions to the carabid fauna of the Hortob?gy National Park.- Patterns of distribution of the genus Carabus L. in Europe: approaches and preliminary results.- Ecobiogeography of Carabidae in the Andes of Venezuela.- State-of-the-art and world perspectives of studies on tiger beetle larvae (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae).- Karyotypic data and current taxonomic ideas of the tribe Harpalini (Coleoptera, Carabidae).- Catalogue of the Carabus species from Siberia with preliminary notes to the taxonomical revision (Coleoptera, Carabidae).- Ground beetle communities in Central Appenines beech woods.- Mitochondrial DNA evolution and the application of the phylogenetic species concept in the Cicindela dorsalis complex (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae).- Graphipterus serrator: a myrmecophagous carabid beetle with mandibular auctorial tube in the larva (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Graphipterini).- Two. Life histories and Population Ecology.- Dependence of running activity and net reproduction in Carabus auronitens on temperature.- Phenology and egg production in Agonum dorsale and Pterostichus melanarius (Col., Carabidae) in winter wheat fields of different growing intensity in Northern Germany.- On the life history of Calathus granatensis (Coleoptera Carabidae) in southwest Iberian Peninsula.- Laboratory measurements of consumption and growth in Abax ater.- Factors influencing respiration in Abax ater.- Seasonal activity of carabid beetles in wooded habitats in northwest Germany (Coleoptera, Carabidae).- Egg size variation in Notiophilus biguttatus (Col., Carabidae).- Habitat-binding and coexistel)