Carabid Beetles

Chapter 1 Introduction—Three Leaders

Chapter 2 Europe and the Circumpolar Area: Events and Personalities

Chapter 3 Some Events and Trends in Study of Carabidae in North America

Chapter 5 Rates of Taxonomically Significant Differentiation in Relation to Geographical Isolation and Habitat: Examples from a Study of the Nearctic Nebria fauna

Chapter 6 Conspectus of Carabid Classification: History, Holomorphology, and Higher Taxa

Chapter 7 Wing-folding Mechanisms of Beetles, with Special Reference to Investigations of Adephagan Phylogeny (Coleoptera)

Chapter 8 Metathoracic Wing Structures as Phylogenetic Indicators in the Adephaga (Coleoptera)

Chapter 9 Chemical Defense in Carabids and Its Bearing on Phylogeny

Chapter 10 Contributions of Characters of Larvae to Systematics of Carabidae

Chapter 11 Larvae of North American Carabidae with a Key to the Tribes

Chapter 12 The Science of Biogeography with Relation to Carabids

Chapter 13 The South American Carabid Fauna: Endemic Tribes and Tribes with African Relationships

Chapter 14 Trans-Atlantic Dispersal: Several Examples of Colonization of the Gulf of Biafra by Middle American Stocks of Carabidae

Chapter 15 Zoogeography of Rhysodini—Do Beetles Travel on Driftwood?

Chapter 16 Existing Trans-Tropical and Southern Pathways of Dispersal for Carabidae

Chapter 17 The Importance of Beringia as Reflected in the Present Fauna

Chapter 18 The American Connection, Past and Present, as a Model Blending Dispersal and Vicariance in the Study of Biogeography

Chapter 19 Investigations on Present Climatic Refugia in North America Through Studies on the Distributions of Carabid Beetles: Concepts, Methodology and Prospectus

Chapter 20 The Theory of Glacial Refugia

Chapter 21 Quaternary Coleoptera Studies in North America: Past and Present

Chapter 22 The Carabidae of the Glacial Refuge in the British Isles and their Contribution to the Post Glacial Colonization of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic Islands

Chapter 23 Late Tertiary Carabid Fossils from Alaska and the Canadian Archipelago

Chapter 24 Relationships between Annual and Daily Rhythms, Climatic Demands and Habitat Selection in Carabid Beetles

Chapter 25 Mortality Rates of the Mobile and Immobile Stages in the Life-Cycle of Carabids

Chapter 26 A Review of the Natural History and Evolution of Ectoparasitoid Relationships in Carabid Beetles

Chapter 27 The Occurrence and Importance of Ground Beetles in Agricultural and Surrounding Habitats

Chapter 28 Carabid Beetles and Pollution

Chapter 29 Riparian Carabid Guilds—a Spontaneous Question Generator

Chapter 30 Thoughts on the Evolutionary History of Ground Beetles: Hypotheses Generated from Comparative Faunal Analyses of Lowland Forest Sites in Temperate and Tropical Regions

Chapter 31 Applications of Computer Techniques to the Study of Ground Beetle Natural History, Systematics, and Zoogeography

Chapter 32 Epilogue