Abstract The Lesser Caucasus, situated between Asia and Europe, has long been
recognised as a key region for the study of human evolution in terms of the timing and routes …

We evaluated progress towards animal biodiversity research in Georgia, a key area in the
Caucasus biodiversity hotspot. By reviewing recently (1990–2018) published articles in all …

Land snail shell assemblages have been used since the pioneering days of palaeoecology
to describe Quaternary environmental changes. Despite the many advantages of this proxy …

Many aboveground animals and plant communities have been studied along elevational
gradients whereas studies on soil animals are scarce. Here, we studied oribatid mite …

Refugia are critical for the maintenance of biodiversity during the periods of Quaternary
climatic oscillations. The long‐term persistence of refugial populations in a large continuous …

The phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Caucasian land snail genus Circassina
was reconstructed using multilocus amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) data …

In the present study, we performed gastropod analyses on loess–palaeosol sequences from
northeast Armenia (Southern Caucasia) covering at least three glacial–interglacial cycles …

The Caucasus region is one of the 25 global biodiversity hotspots and constitutes a shelter
area for Neogene relict species as well as a center of ongoing radiation. In order to elucidate …

We investigated the land-snail fauna of rain forests on the eastern slopes of Pico Biao on
Bioko Island in the Gulf of Guinea. Thirty-seven plots were studied along an altitudinal …

Studies on the diversity of land molluscs raise a number of crucial questions that remain
unanswered, or in some cases have not been asked. At the most fundamental level, we …