Books
	Caves, Groves, and Coral Reefs--The Making of Ecosystems Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg), expected publication date: 2006 This is the preliminary title for the popular science book that I am currently working on. It is going to be a book in the same style as Frogs, Flies and Dandelions (The Making of Species). Whereas the latter targeted biodiversity from an evolutionary point of view (i.e., speciation), Caves, Groves and Coral Reefs will take an ecological approach. Questions to be tackled in the book are: How many species are there? And why so many in the Tropics? Do all species in an ecosystem have their own niche or are ecosystems assembled and maintained much more haphazardly?
	Frogs, Flies and Dandelions--The Making of Species Oxford University Press, May 2001 (hardcover) ISBN: 0198503938 In this book, I have tried to take the non-specialist reader on a light-hearted tour of the often vitriolic debates on the evolution of new species, a field of evolutionary biology known as "speciation." The book avoids jargon and technical language and is suitable for laymen and students alike. Even seasoned evolutionary biologists have found something to their liking in it. The book was favourably reviewed in Nature (7 June 2001) by Richard Harrison ("not only suprisingly fun to read but sufficiently provocative to get me thinking hard"); in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (July 2001) by Alexey Kondrashov ("Schilthuizen has done an excellent job [...] I can recommend [it] to almost everyone"); in Heredity by Jacek Szymura ("amateurs and professionals alike will find it very rewarding to read this book "); and in several newspapers and magazines. order directly from OUP order via Amazon order via Borneo Books Oxford University Press, July 2002 (paperback) ISBN: 019850392X order via Amazon   French translation by Dunod: Grenouilles, Mouches et Pissenlits, September 2002 ISBN: 2100065491 order via Amazon Dutch translation by Nieuwezijds: Het Mysterie der Mysteriën, ISBN: 905712145X order via Nieuwezijds Greek translation in preparation     Kevers op Kadavers Schilthuizen, M. & H.J. Vallenduuk, 1998 Wetenschappelijke Mededelingen KNNV, 222: 1-150. ISBN: 9050111122 This is an illustrated field guide (in Dutch, with an English summary) to the chief groups of beetles that live on carrion. An extensive introduction gives an overview of carrion beetle ecology and behaviour, followed by identification keys, many illustrations, descriptions and distribution maps for the carrion-inhabiting Silphidae, Histeridae, and Cholevidae (=Catopidae) in the Netherlands. order via Koninklijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging order via JNM (Belgium)   Differentiation and Hybridisation in a Polytypic Snail PhD Thesis Leiden University, 1994 My PhD thesis is a compilation of research papers on the evolutionary biology of the land snail genus Albinaria from the island of Crete. It mostly deals with population genetics of hybrid zones, dispersal and areas of sympatry in the species A. hippolyti. An introduction gives an overview of the morphology and life-history of Albinaria. [e-mail for a complimentary copy]