Turkey (Türkiye) lies at the nexus of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
Turkey's location, mountains, and its encirclement by three seas have resulted in high …

IUCN Red Lists are recognized worldwide as powerful instruments for the conservation of
species. Quantitative criteria to standardize approaches for estimating population trends …

We review the diversity of freshwater organisms in the Mediterranean Basin (hereafter Med),
particularly from streams and rivers. We present available information on the richness …

Based on a distribution database brought together for the recently published Atlas of the
European dragonflies and damselflies, we describe the patterns of diversity and endemism …

The designation of geographical entities in this book and the presentation of the material, do
not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IUCN or other participating …

More than 1.2 million distribution records were used to create species distribution models for
402 Palaearctic species of dragonflies and damselflies. On the basis of these diversity maps …

Wetlands are a key habitat within the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot and provide
important ecosystem services for human well-being. Remote sensing (RS) has significantly …

This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge of Mediterranean wetlands in the sense
of the Ramsar Convention and their recent trends, largely based on the results produced by …

Turkey constitutes an biogeographical bridge that connects Europe, Asia and Africa.
Publications on its insect fauna began almost 180 years ago. To date, no studies have …

We investigated the effects of contemporary and historical factors on the spatial variation of
European dragonfly diversity. Specifically, we tested to what extent patterns of endemism …