Relict Species

1. Relict Species: From Past to Future
Jan C. Habel, Thorsten Assmann, Thomas Schmitt, John C. Avise

2. The Changing Climate: Past, Present, Future
Markus Quante

3. Extra-Mediterranean Refugia, Post-Glacial Vegetation History and Area Dynamics in Eastern Central Europe
Zoltán Varga

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Review Refugial Areas and Postglacial Colonizations in the Western Palearctic
Jan C. Habel, Claudia Drees, Thomas Schmitt, Thorsten Assmann

11. Multiple Glacial Refuges of Unwinged Ground Beetles in Europe: Molecular Data Support Classical Phylogeographic Models
Claudia Drees, Andrea Matern, Goddert Oheimb, Thomas Reimann, Thorsten Assmann

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Peripheral Relict Populations of Widespread Species; Evolutionary Hotspots or Just More of the Same?
Anna Cassel-Lundhagen

16. Genetic Differentiation Between and Among Refugia
Gabriel Nève, Régine Verlaque

17. Population Genetic Structure of Two Threatened Dragonfly Species (Odonata: Anisoptera) as Revealed by RAPD Analysis
Mónica A. Amorín, Marta Vila, Adolfo C. Rivera

18. Review Molecular Methods: Blessing or Curse?
Aline Finger, Charlotte Klank

19. 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

20. Ecological Limits Vis-à-vis Changing Climate: Relic Erebia Butterflies in Insular Sudeten Mountains
Martin Konvička, Jiri Benes, Thomas Schmitt

21. Conservation and Management of the Habitats of Two Relict Butterflies in the Belgian Ardenne: Proclossiana eunomia and Lycaena helle

Philippe Goffart, Nicolas Schtickzelle, Camille Turlure

22. Review Modelling Future Trends of Relict Species
Dennis Rödder, Johannes Dambach

23. Conservation of the Grey Bush Cricket Platycleis albopunctata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) Under Differing Habitat Conditions: Implications From an Individual-Based Model
Eva M. Griebeler, Eckhard Gottschalk

24. Is the ‘Lost World’ Lost? High Endemism of Aphibians and Reptiles on South American Tepuís in a Changing Climate
Dennis Rödder, Andreas Schlüter, Stefan Lötters

25. Population Genetics and Ecological Niche Modelling Reveal High Fragmentation and Potential Future Extinction of the Endangered Relict Butterfly Lycaena helle

Jan C. Habel, Bettina Augenstein, Marc Meyer, Gabriel Nève, Dennis Rödder, Thorsten Assmann

26. Relict Species Research: Some Concluding Remarks
Jan C. Habel, Thomas Schmitt, Thorsten Assmann

Keywords: Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Ecology