Table of Contents

Terrestrial Mammals of Bulgaria: Zoogeographical and Ecological Patterns of Distribution.- Fauna, Zoogeography, and Ecology of Birds in Bulgaria.- Amphibians and Reptiles of Bulgaria: Fauna, Vertical Distribution, Zoogeography, and Conservation.- Fauna and Distribution of Fishes in Bulgaria.- Fauna And Zoogeography Of Marine, Freshwater, And Terrestrial Mollusks (Mollusca) In Bulgaria.- Fauna, Ecology, and Zoogeography of Dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) of Bulgaria.- Fauna and Zoogeography of the Orthopterid Insects (Embioptera, Dermaptera, Mantodea, Blattodea, Isoptera, and Orthoptera) in Bulgaria.- Biogeography of the Endemic Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the Central and Eastern Balkan Peninsula.- Fauna and Zoogeography of Jewel Beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in Bulgaria.- Fauna and Zoogeography of Myriapoda in Bulgaria.- Fauna and Zoogeography of Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) in Bulgaria.- Spatial Niches of Opiliones (Arachnida) from Vitosha Mountains, Bulgaria.- Fauna and Zoogeography of Spiders of the Family Linyphiidae (Araneae) in Bulgaria.- Fauna and Zoogeography of Wolf Spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) in Bulgaria.- Haplogyne Spiders (Araneae) in Bulgaria: Faunistic and Zoogeographical Analysis.- Terrestrial Cave Animals in Bulgaria.- Stygofauna of the Fresh Waters in Bulgaria.- Biodiversity and Ecology of the Bulgarian Black Sea Invertebrates.- Testate Amoebas and Monothalamous Foraminifera (Protozoa) from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.- Florogeographical Elements and Evolutionary Trends in the Bulgarian Flora.- Vegetation and Phytogeography: A Brief Characteristic.- Landscapes and Climate of Bulgaria.

About the Author

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.