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

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Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria

Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae ((MOBI,volume 82))

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The endemic carabid faunas of 13 regions of the Central and Eastern Balkan Peninsula are compared. The analysis includes 385 species and subspecies, all of them Balkan endemics and subendemics or local endemics. The following issues are discussed: descriptive biogeography (definition of diversity and centers of diversity, chorology and specificity, taxonomic structure and macroecological habitats, and affinities of taxonomic and macrohabitat structure); causal biogeography (faunal elements and complexes, their time of formation and/or arrival, affinity of biogeographical structure, relict, orthoselective and migratory components, definition of inter- and postglacial refugia and centers of dispersal), and regional division based on taxonomic, macrohabitat, and biogeographical structure

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Guéorguiev, B. (2007). Biogeography of the Endemic Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the Central and Eastern Balkan Peninsula. In: Fet, V., Popov, A. (eds) Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5781-6_9

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