Includes bibliographical references and index.

Relict species : from past to future / Jan C. Babel ... [et al.] -- The changing climate : past, present, future / Markus Quante -- Extra-Mediterranean refugia, post-glacial vegetation history and area dynamics in eastern Central Europe / Zoltán Varga -- Review : the dark side of relict species biology : cave animals as ancient lineages / Thorsten Assmann ... [et al.] -- Relicts within the genus complex Astragalus/Oxytropis (Fabaceae), and the comparison of diversity by objective means / Matthias Schlee ... [et al.] -- Relict populations and endemic clades in Palearctic reptiles : evolutionary history and implications for conservation / Ulrich Joger ... [et al.] -- Niche conservatism among allopatric species of the grasshopper genus Afrophlaeoba Jago, 1983 in the Eastern Arc Mountains (Tanzania) / Axel Hochkirch -- Conservation genetics and phylogeography of the threatened Corsican and Barbary red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus and C. e. barbarus) / Frank E. Zachos, Ghaiet M. Hajji, and San S. Hmwe -- Phylogeographic analyses of a boreal-temperate ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete, Amanita muscaria, suggest forest refugia in Alaska during the Last Glacial Maximum / József Geml ... [et al.] -- Review : refugial areas and postglacial colonizations in the western Palearctic / Jan C. Habel ... [et al.] -- Multiple glacial refuges of unwinged ground beetles in Europe : molecular data support classical phylogeographic models / Claudia Drees ... [et al.] -- Postglacial recolonization of continental Europe by the pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus) inferred from mitochondrial and Y chromosomal DNA sequences / Allan D. McDevitt ... [et al.] -- Are disjunct Alpine and Arctic-Alpine animal and plant species in the western Palearctic really "relics of a cold past"? / Thomas Schmitt, Christoph Muster, and Peter Schönswetter -- Linking genetics and ecology : reconstructing the history of relict populations of an endangered semi-aquatic beetle / Andrea Matern ... [et al.] -- Peripheral relict populations of widespread species : evolutionary hotspots or just more of the same? / Anna Cassel-Lundhagen -- Genetic differentiation between and among refugia / Gabriel Nève and Régine Verlaque -- Population genetic structure of two threatened dragonfly species (Odonata: Anisoptera) as revealed by RAPD analysis / Mónica A. Amorín, Marta Vila, and Adolfo C. Rivera -- Molecular methods : blessing or curse? / Aline Finger and Charlotte Klank -- The EC Habitats Directive and the German Natura 2000 Network of Protected Areas as tool for implementing the conservation of relict species / Marco Zimmermann ... [et al.] -- Ecological limits vis-à-vis changing climate : relic Erebia butterflies in insular Sudeten Mountains / Martin Konvička, Jiri Benes, and Thomas Schmitt -- Conservation and management of the habitats of two relict butterflies in the Belgian Ardenne : Proclossiana eunomia and Lycaena helle / Philippe Goffart, Nicolas Schtickzelle, and Camille Turlure -- Review : modelling future trends of relict species / Dennis Rödder and Johannes Dambach -- Conservation of the grey bush cricket Platycleis albopunctata (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) under differing habitat conditions : implications from an individual-based model / Eva M. Griebeler and Eckhard Gottschalk -- Is the 'lost world' lost? : high endemism of amphibians and reptiles on South American tepuís in a changing climate / Dennis Rödder, Andreas Schlüter, and Stefan Lötters -- Population genetics and ecological niche modelling reveal high fragmentation and potential future extinction of the endangered relict butterfly Lycaena helle / Jan C. Habel ... [et al.] -- Relict species research : some concluding remarks / Jan C. Habel, Thomas Schmitt, and Thorsten Assmann.