Changes in the distribution of carabid beetles in Belgium revisited: Have we halted the diversity loss?

• Published in: Biological conservation Vol. 143; no. 6; pp. 1549 - 1557
• Main Authors: Desender, Konjev, Dekoninck, Wouter, Dufrêne, Marc, Maes, Dirk
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2010; Kidlington, Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd; Elsevier; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied ecology; Belgium; Biological and medical sciences; Carabidae; Conservation; Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife; Countdown2010; Ecological and life history traits; Environmental sciences & ecology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; insect ecology; Insecta; Invertebrates; life history; Life sciences; Parks, reserves, wildlife conservation. Endangered species: population survey and restocking; Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; spatial distribution; species diversity; wildlife management; Belgium; Europe; Carabidae; Countdown2010; Ecological and life history traits; Conservation; Coleoptera; Insecta; Diversity; Loss; Ecology; Life history trait; Arthropoda; Invertebrata; Environmental protection

Twenty years ago, Desender and Turin (1989) analysed the changes in the composition of carabid beetles in four NW European countries between the periods <1950 and 1950–1985. Recently, a new distribution atlas of carabid beetles in Belgium was compiled using data collected during the period 1986–2...