Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation BiologyJan Christian Habel, Thorsten Assmann Mankind has evolved both genetically and culturally to become a most successful and dominant species. But we are now so numerous and our technology is so p- erful that we are having major effects on the planet, its environment, and the b- sphere. For some years prophets have warned of the possible detrimental consequences of our activities, such as pollution, deforestation, and overfishing, and recently it has become clear that we are even changing the atmosphere (e. g. ozone, carbon dioxide). This is worrying since the planet’s life systems are involved and dependent on its functioning. Current climate change – global w arming – is one recognised consequence of this larger problem. To face this major challenge, we will need the research and advice of many disciplines – Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biology, and Sociology – and particularly the commitment of wise politicians such as US Senator Al Gore. An important aspect of this global problem that has been researched for several decades is the loss of species and the impoverishment of our ecosystems, and hence their ability to sustain themselves, and more particularly us! Through evolutionary time new species have been generated and some have gone extinct. Such extinction and regeneration are moulded by changes in the earth’s crust, atmosphere, and resultant climate. Some extinctions have been massive, particularly those asso- ated with catastrophic meteoric impacts like the end of the Cretaceous Period 65Mya. |
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ExtraMediterranean Refugia PostGlacial Vegetation History and Area Dynamics in Eastern Central Europe | 57 |
Cave Animals as Ancient Lineages | 91 |
Relicts Within the Genus Complex AstragalusOxytropis Fabaceae and the Comparison of Diversity by Objective Mean | 105 |
Evolutionary History and Implications for Conservation | 119 |
Niche Conservatism among Allopatric Species of the Grasshopper Genus Afrophlaeoba Jago 1983 in the Eastern Arc Mount | 145 |
Conservation Genetics and Phylogeography of the Threatened Corsican and BarbaryRed Deer Cervus elaphus corsicanus and | 159 |
Peripheral Relict Populations of Widespread Species Evolutionary Hotspots or Just More of the Same? | 267 |
Genetic Differentiation Between and Among Refugia | 277 |
Anisoptera as Revealed by RAPD Analysis | 295 |
Blessing or Curse? | 309 |
The EU Habitats Directive and the GermanNatura 2000 Network of Protected Areas as Tool for Implementing the Conservation of R | 323 |
Relic Erebia Butterflies in Insular Sudeten Mountains | 341 |
Proclossiana eunomia and Lyca | 357 |
Modelling Future Trends of Relict Species | 373 |
Phylogeographic Analyses of a BorealTemperate Ectomycorrhizal Basidiomycete Amanita muscaria Suggest Forest Refugia in Al | 173 |
Refugial Areas and Postglacial Colonizations in the Western Palearctic | 189 |
Molecular Data Support Classical Phylogeographic Models | 199 |
Postglacial Recolonization of Continental Europe by the Pygmy Shrew Sorex minutus Inferred From Mitochondrial and Y Chromo | 217 |
Are Disjunct Alpine and ArcticAlpine Animal and Plant Species in the Western Palearctic Really Relics of a Cold Past? | 239 |
Reconstructing the History of Relict Populations of an Endangered SemiAquatic Beetle | 253 |
Tettigoniidae Under Differing Habitat Conditions | 385 |
Is the Lost World Lost? High Endemism of Aphibians and Reptiles on South American Tepuís in a Changing Climate | 401 |
Population Genetics and Ecological Niche Modelling Reveal High Fragmentation and Potential Future Extinction of the Endangered | 417 |
Some Concluding Remarks | 441 |
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