HISTORICAL ECOLOGY MEETS CONSERVATION AND EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS: A SECONDARY CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN CARABUS VIOLACEUS (COLEOPTERA, CARABIDAE) POPULATIONS INHABITING ANCIENT AND RECENT WOODLANDS IN NORTH-WESTERN GERMANY

Historical ecology meets conservation and evolutionary genetics: a secondary contact zone between Carabus violaceus (Coleoptera, Carabidae) populations inhabiting ancient and recent woodlands in north-western Germany

Only very few cases have documented that an increase in connectivity after a period of fragmentation in ecological time has had an effect on the distribution, genetic structure and morphology of stenotopic species.In this study we present an example of clinal variability in a woodland ground beetle as a result of changes in the connectivity of a la

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Virumaa kalendritavad ja nende piirkondlik omapära

The article gives Blanks an overview of calendrical rituals in Virumaa region, Estonia, mainly on the basis of customs descriptions preserved in the folklore archives of the Estonian Literary Museum since the last decades of the 19th century.Calendrical themes are complemented by proverbs, narratives about working prohibitions, etc.The influence of

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