Mind the gap II : new insights into the Irish postglacial / edited by D. Paddy Sleeman, Jens Carlsson and Jeanette E.L. Carlsson.

"Publication date 27 November 2014" -- title page verso.

Series numbering extrapolated from list of previous titles inside back cover.

Outgrowth of multidisciplinary meetings held at Fota Wildlife Park, County Cork, in 2012 and 2013 -- back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / D. Paddy Sleeman and Jens Carlsson -- Ireland, an unexpected focus for genetic biodiversity and the ecological implications / D. Paddy Sleeman -- The use of genetics to infer the origins of the terrestrial and freshwater element of the Irish fauna / Jens Carlsson, Tom F. Cross, Philip McGinnity, Paulo A. Prodöhl, and Allan D. McDevitt -- Ireland's native mammals : a survey of the archaeological record / Peter C. Woodman -- The origin of the Irish avifauna : a perspective from island biogeography theory / Thomas C. Kelly, Patrick Smiddy, and Conor T. Graham -- The Eurasian crane (Grus grus) in Ireland : another extinct bird or a key species for an ancient belief system? / Lorcán O'Toole -- Post-glaciation plant colonization of Ireland : fresh insights from An Loch Mór, Inis OÃrr, western Ireland / Karen Molloy and Michael O'Connell -- Breeding birds in Ireland : success and failure among colonists / Patrick Smiddy -- What Ireland's soil macroinvertebrate fauna can tell us about postglacial colonization / Ruth Roland and Thomas Bolger -- Never mind the gap : climate, rather than insularity, may limit Ireland's species richness / Simon Harrison -- Did melting ice sheets create temporary low-salinity corridors that facilitated the natural colonization of Ireland by stenohaline fishes? / Declan T.G. Quigley -- Origin of the Holocene mammals of these islands / W. Ian Montgomery.