Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Relict Species: From Past to Future....Pages 1-5
Extra-Mediterranean Refugia, Post-Glacial Vegetation History and Area Dynamics in Eastern Central Europe....Pages 57-87
The Changing Climate: Past, Present, Future....Pages 9-56
Review: The Dark Side of Relict Species Biology: Cave Animals as Ancient Lineages....Pages 91-103
Relicts Within the Genus Complex Astragalus/Oxytropis (Fabaceae), and the Comparison of Diversity by Objective Means....Pages 105-117
Relict Populations and Endemic Clades in Palearctic Reptiles: Evolutionary History and Implications for Conservation....Pages 119-143
Niche Conservatism among Allopatric Species of the Grasshopper Genus Afrophlaeoba Jago, 1983 in the Eastern Arc Mountains (Tanzania)....Pages 145-158
Conservation Genetics and Phylogeography of the Threatened Corsican and Barbary Red Deer ( Cervus elaphus corsicanus and C. e. barbarus )....Pages 159-171
Phylogeographic Analyses of a Boreal-Temperate Ectomycorrhizal Basidiomycete, Amanita Muscaria , Suggest Forest Refugia in Alaska During the Last Glacial Maximum....Pages 173-186
Review Refugial Areas and Postglacial Colonizations in the Western Palearctic....Pages 189-197
Multiple Glacial Refuges of Unwinged Ground Beetles in Europe: Molecular Data Support Classical Phylogeographic Models....Pages 199-215
Postglacial Recolonization of Continental Europe by the Pygmy Shrew ( Sorex minutus ) Inferred From Mitochondrial and Y Chromosomal DNA Sequences....Pages 217-236
Are Disjunct Alpine and Arctic-Alpine Animal and Plant Species in the Western Palearctic Really “Relics of a Cold Past”?....Pages 239-252
Linking Genetics and Ecology: Reconstructing the History of Relict Populations of an Endangered Semi-Aquatic Beetle....Pages 253-265
Peripheral Relict Populations of Widespread Species; Evolutionary Hotspots or Just More of the Same?....Pages 267-275
Genetic Differentiation Between and Among Refugia....Pages 277-294
Population Genetic Structure of Two Threatened Dragonfly Species (Odonata: Anisoptera) as Revealed by RAPD Analysis....Pages 295-308
Review Molecular Methods: Blessing or Curse?....Pages 309-320
The EU Habitats Directive and the German Natura 2000 Network of Protected Areas as Tool for Implementing the Conservation of Relict Species....Pages 323-340
Ecological Limits Vis-à-vis Changing Climate: Relic Erebia Butterflies in Insular Sudeten Mountains....Pages 341-355
Conservation and Management of the Habitats of Two Relict Butterflies in the Belgian Ardenne: Proclossiana eunomia and Lycaena helle ....Pages 357-370
Review Modelling Future Trends of Relict Species....Pages 373-383
Conservation of the Grey Bush Cricket Platycleis albopunctata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) Under Differing Habitat Conditions: Implications From an Individual-Based Model....Pages 385-399
Is the ‘Lost World’ Lost? High Endemism of Aphibians and Reptiles on South American Tepuís in a Changing Climate....Pages 401-416
Population Genetics and Ecological Niche Modelling Reveal High Fragmentation and Potential Future Extinction of the Endangered Relict Butterfly Lycaena helle ....Pages 417-439
Relict Species Research: Some Concluding Remarks....Pages 441-442
Erratum....Pages 450-450
Erratum....Pages 451-451
Back Matter....Pages 443-449