Contents VOLUME 135 (2) Introduction. Ninth International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology o f Greece and Adjacent Regions (9ICZEGAR) 105 (Thessaloniki, Greece). Assessing Biodiversity in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Approaches and Applications Haralambos ALIVIZATOS, Vassilis GOUTNER and Stamatis ZOGARIS 109 Contribution to the study o f the diet offour owl species (Aves, Strigiformes) from mainland and island areas o f Greece Chryssanthi ANTONIADOU, Drossos KOUTSOUBAS and Chariton C. CHINTIROGLOU Belgian Journal of Zoology 119 Mollusca fauna from infralittoral hard substrate assemblages in the North Aegean Sea Maria D. ARGYROPOULOU, George KARRIS, Efi M. PAPATHEODOROU and George P. STAMOU 127 Epiedaphic Coleoptera in the Dadia Forest Reserve (Thrace, Greece) : The Effect o f Human Activities on Community Organization Patterns Tsenka CHASSOVNIKAROVA, Roumiana METCHEVA and Krastio DIMITROV 135 Microtus guentheri (Danford & Alston) (Rodentia, Mammalia) : A Bioindicator Species for Estimation o f the Influence o f Polymetal Dust Emissions Rainer FROESE, Stefan GARTHE, Uwe PIATKOWSKI and Daniel PAULY 139 Trophic signatures of marine organisms in the Mediterranean as compared with other ecosystems AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY 145 Giorgos GIANNATOS, Yiannis MARINOS, Panagiota MARAGOU and Giorgos CATSADORAKIS The status o f the Golden Jackal (Canis aureus L.) in Greece THE ROYAL BELGIAN SOCIETY FOR ZOOLOGY Marianna GIANNOULAKI, Athanasios MACHIAS, Stylianos SOMARAKIS and Nikolaos TSIMENIDES 151 The spatial distribution o f anchovy and sardine in the northern Aegean Sea in relation to hydrographic regimes Vassilis GOUTNER, Triantafyllos ALBANIS and Ioannis KONSTANTINOU 157 PCBs and organochlorine pesticide residues in eggs of threatened colonial charadriiform species (Aves, Charadriiformes) from wetlands of international importance in northeastern Greece Volume 135 (2) - July 2005 Sayas KAZANTZIDIS and Vassilis GOUTNER 165 The diet o f nestlings o f three Ardeidae species (Aves, Ciconiiformes) in the Axios Delta, Greece Theodoros KEVREKIDIS, Theodora BOUBONARI and Vasilios GOUTNER 171 Seasonal variation in abundance o f Corophium orientale (Crustacea : Amphipoda) in Monolimni lagoon (Evros Delta, North Aegean Sea) PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ZOOGEOGRAPHY Panagiotis KORNILIOS, Basil CHONDROPOULOS & Stella FRAGUEDAKIS-TSOLIS 175 Allozyme variation in populations of the karyotypically polymorphic vole Microtus (Terricola) thomasi (Mammalia, AND ECOLOGY OF GREECE AND ADJACENT REGIONS Rodentia) from Greece George D. KOUFOS, Dimitris S. KOSTOPOULOS and Theodora D. VLACHOU THESSALONIKI, GREECE, 22-25 MAY 2002 181 Neogene/Quaternary mammalian migrations in Eastern Mediterranean Mary LABROPOULOU and Costas PAPACONSTANTINOU 191 Effect offishing on community structure of demersal fish assemblages Eugenia LEFKADITOU and Panagiotis KASPIRIS 199 Distribution and abundance of sepiolids (Mollusca : Cephalopoda) off the north-eastern Greek coasts Mirjana LENHARDT, Roderick Nigel FINN, Predrag CAKIC, Jelena KOLAREVIC, Jasmina KRPO- 205 CETKOVIC, Ivica RADOVIC and Hans Jorgen FYHN Analysis of the post-vitellogenic oocytes of three species of Danubian Acipenseridae Georgios MANOUDIS, Chryssanthi ANTONIADOU, Konstantinos DOUNAS and Chariton Ch. CHINTIROGLOU 209 Successional stages o f experimental artificial reefs deployed in Vistonikos gulf (N. Aegean Sea, Greece) : Preliminary results Yorgos MERTZANIS, Isaak IOANNIS, Avraam MAVRIDIS, Olga NIKOLAOU, Suzanne RIEGLER, Armin 217 RIEGLER and Athanasios TRAGOS Movements, activity patterns and home range o f a female brown bear (Ursus arctos, L.) in the Rodopi Mountain Range, Greece Evangelia MICHALOUDI 223 Dry Weights o f the Zooplankton o f Lake Mikri Prespa (Macedonia, Greece) Chryssi MYTILINEOU, Chrissi-Yianna POLITOU, Costas PAPACONSTANTINOU, Stefanos KAVADAS, 229 Gianfranco D’ONGHIA and Leticia SION Deep-water fish fauna in the Eastern Ionian Sea Chrissi-Yianna POLITOU, Porzia MAIORANO, Gianfranco D’ONGHIA and Chryssi MYTILINEOU 235 Deep-water decapod crustacean fauna of the Eastern Ionian Sea George SKOUFAS 243 Nesting and hatching success o f the sea turtle Caretta caretta on Marathonissi island (Zakynthos, Ionian Sea, Greece) Stylianos SOMARAKIS 247 Marked interannual differences in reproductive parameters and daily egg production of anchovy in the northern Aegean Sea George P. STAMOU, Efi M. PAPATHEODOROU, Anastasios HO VARDAS and Maria D. ARGYROPOULOU 253 Some structural and functional characteristics of a soil nematode community from a Mediterranean grassland Stavros XIROUCHAKIS 261 The avifauna o f the western Rodopi forests (N. Greece) Lily VENIZELOS, Kalliopi PAPAPAVLOU, Marc-Antoine DUNAIS and Calliope LAGONIKA 271 A review and reappraisal o f research in some previously unsurveyed Mediterranean marine turtle nesting sites, 1990-2001 A. ZENETOS, D. KOUTSOUBAS and E. VARDALA-THEODOROU 279 Origin and Vectors o f Introduction o f Exotic Molluscs in Greek Waters The BELGIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY is c o v e r e d in C u r r e n t C o n t e n t s , S c ie n c e C i t a t io n I n d e x ISSN: 0777-6276 BELGIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY AND IN OTHER LEADING REFERENCE PUBLICATIONS 2005 135(2) Belgian Journal of Zoology INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS The Belgian Journal of Zoology publishes, in English or French, original papers, reviews and notes in all fields of zoology. 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