Protection of Coleoptera in
the Baltic Sea Region

Contents

• Welcome of representative of the Ministry of Foregin Affairs
• Foreword of representative of the Regional Directorate of the State Forest in Radom
• Opening address of the organisers
• Góry Świętokrzyskie Mountains - their nature and forests against the backgroung of their history - Krzysztof Mazur

PROTECTION OF BEETLES IN THE BALTIC SEA REGION

• Beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Red Book of Lithuania - Vytautas Tamutis
• Rare and protected forest beetle species in the national parks of Lithuania - Algimantas Ziogas, Paulius Zolubas
• Conservation of beetles (Coleoptera) in Estonia - Ilmar Suda, Kaljo Voolma
• Rare and endangered beetles (Coleoptera) from Krajkowo Nature Reserve in the middle course of the Warta river in Western Poland - Paweł Sienkiewicz, Szymon Konwerski
• Effects of grassland management strategy on the carabid fauna of urban parks - Venn Steven, Rokala Kati
• Spreading of risk as a conception of protection of species - Jan Szyszko, Axel Schwerk
• Protection of carabid fauna (Carabidae) in forests of the Maskulińskie Forest District (Forest Promotional Complex Lasy Mazurskie) - Jarosław Skłodowski, Paweł Zdzioch

DISTRIBUTION AND DYNAMICS OF COLEOPTERA

• Newcomers in the coleopteran fauna of northern Europe - Hans Silfverberg
• Leptusa (Boreoleptusa) norvegica Strand, 1941 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) - a new species to the fauna of Poland - Andrzej Mazur
• Ground beetles (Carabidae, Coleoptera) in selected habitats of Wolin Island - Maria Wolender, Andrzej Zych
• Rove beetles fauna and distribution of subgenus Philhygra Mulsant & Rey, 1873 of genus Atheta Thomson 1858 in Latvia - Raimonds Cibulskis
• Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Biedrusko range in Western Poland - Szymon Konwerski, Paweł Sienkiewicz
• The carabid's fauna of "Torfiaki" raised peat-bog (north-eastern Poland) - Bogdan Browarski
• On the fauna of carrion beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae) of Mazurian lakeland (north-eastern Poland) - Oleg Aleksandrowicz, Karol Komosiński
• Effects of habitat on staphylinid (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) species richness in sandy habitat - first report from an ongoing research project - Marcin Zalewski, Matti Koivula

COLEOPTERA IN FOREST

• Temporal and spatial dynamics of Carabus hortensis L. (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in forest stands of different stage of succession - Axel Schwerk, Jan Szyszko
• The beetles living in cutting residues - Arturas Gedminas
• Some population characteristics of Anoplotrupes stercorosus (Hartmann in Scriba, 1791) in relation to forest habitat and soil quality - Krzysztof Klimaszewski, Witold Strużyński
• "The day after" - first year of carabid recolonization of pine forest damaged by hurricane Jarosław Skłodowski, Paweł Zdzioch

COLEOPTERA AS PREY OF VERTEBRATA

• Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the diet of a greater mouse-eared bat Myotis myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) - Radomir Jaskuła, Janusz Hejduk
• The role of Coleoptera as food of Salmonoidea (Pisces) - Stanisław Cios, Tomasz Mokrzycki

POPULATION ECOLOGY

• Population abundance of Carabus linnaei (Carabidae) in selected forest plant associations of Góry Świętokrzyskie Mountains - Stanisław Huruk, Alicja Huruk
• Population abundance of Pterostichus burmeisteri (Carabidae) in selected forest plant associations of Góry Świętokrzyskie Mountains - Stanisław Huruk, Alicja Huruk
• Mandible sexual dimorphism in Cicindela hybrida hybrida (Cicindelidae) - Radomir Jaskuła