Description: This book presents the story of Dutch ground beetles and illustrates the contribution of pitfall trapping to our understanding of the ecology of this fascinating and unusually well-studied group of beetles.
Review Quotes: The book presents the successful approach to evaluating the enormous amount of data on the Dutch carabid beetles. The methods used are not only described but their applicability is tested and their selection justified in detail. The naming and labelling are clear and well- arranged and consistent throughout the book. The presentations and results are supported in detail by tables and illustrations and illustrated by impressive habitat pictures and photos of the species, especially the excellent live photographs by Heijerman.
Dietrich Mossakowski, in ZooKeys, August 2022
Entomologists who want to learn more about carabid beetle ecology and diversity as well as conservation biologists and land managers who employ ecological sampling to answer questions about population trends will both find this book incredibly informative.
James K. Liebherr, in: The Coleopterists Bulletin 76(3) (2022)
[...] this volume represents a milestone not only for the conservation of Dutch carabid fauna, but also for the neighboring countries of Central Europe because it unifies into a single database thousands of quantitative data that may be a reference point for several future evaluations and elaborations. It enables also "noncarabidologists" to face up to the difficult exercise of evaluation for conservation thanks to the numerous characteristic species proposed by the authors after a screening of so many year samples.
Pietro Brandmayr in: The Quarterly Review of Biology, 98 (2023)
There is a pleasure to a good book - one that has been crafted with care and attention by authors who love their subject. This is such a book, and will be an engrossing and inspiring companion to any coleopterist with an interest in carabids and pockets deep enough to afford a copy.
Mark G. Telfer
Reich bebildert mit hervorragenden Fotos einzelner ausführlich abgehandelter Arten, von Lebensräumen und Fallensystemen, [...] für Carabidologen, die neben Taxonomie und Faunistik auch biologisch-ökologische Informationen erhalten möchten, ist das Buch unbedingt zu empfehlen.
Jörg Gebert in: Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte, 66, 2022/2
Om te concluderen: dit is een zeer waardevol werk, dat in de kast van elke Nederlandse loopkeverfanaat niet mag ontbreken. Ook voor andere onderzoekers die werken aan insecten, bijvoorbeeld aan trends of het bepalen van gemeenschappen, is deze publicatie uitermate nuttig.
Roel van Klink in: entomologische berichten 82 (6) (2022)