Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria

1. Introduction

2. Landscapes and climate of Bulgaria

3.Florogeographic elements and evolutionary trends in the Bulgarian flora

4. Vegetation and phytogeography: A brief characteristic

5. Terrestrial mammals of Bulgaria: Biogeographic and ecological patterns of distribution

6. Fauna, zoogeography, and ecology of Birds in Bulgaria

7. Amphibians and reptiles in Bulgaria: species diversity, vertical distribution, zoogeographical analysis, and conservation

8. Fauna and distribution of fishes in Bulgaria

9. Fauna, ecology, and zoogeography of dragonflies (Insecta, Odonata) in Bulgaria

10. Fauna and zoogeography of the orthopterid orders (Embioptera, Dermaptera, Mantodea, Blattodea, Isoptera, and Orthoptera) in Bulgaria

11. Biogeography of the endemic Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the central and eastern Balkan Peninsula

12. Fauna and zoogeography of jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Bulgaria

13. Stygofauna of the fresh waters in Bulgaria

14. Fauna and zoogeography of Myriapoda in Bulgaria

15. Fauna and zoogeography of haplogyne spiders (Araneae) in Bulgaria

16. Fauna and zoogeography of wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) in Bulgaria

17. Fauna and zoogeography of spiders of the family Linyphiidae (Araneae) in Bulgaria

18. Spatial niches of Opiliones (Arachnida) from Vitosha Mts., Bulgaria

19. Fauna and zoogeography of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) in Bulgaria

20. Fauna and zoogeography of mollusks in Bulgaria

21. Testate amoebas and monothalamous foraminifera (Protozoa) from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

22. Terrestrial cave animals in Bulgaria

23. Biodiversity and ecology of the Bulgarian Black Sea invertebrates

Dr. Victor Fet is a Professor of Biology at Marshall University, West Virginia, USA. He was a co-editor of Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994) and authored dozens of research publications on animal biogeography, systematics and evolution. He is also one of the world's leading experts on scorpions and one of the authors of the Catalog of Scorpions of the World (New York, 2000).



Dr. Alexi Popov is the Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria. He authored and co-authored 94 research publications on insect faunistics, taxonomy, ecology, and conservation. He served as a Secretary and/or the Member of the Editorial Board of Historia naturalis bulgarica, Acta entomologica bulgarica, and Journal of Neuropterology. In the project "Fauna Europaea", Dr. Popov leads the team of 30 entomologists working on the insects of Bulgaria.