V rezul"tate 20-letnikh issledovaniy, provodivshikhsya v Belarusi, stranakh Pribaltiki, Poles"e Ukrainy, zapadnykh oblastyakh Rossii, obnaruzheno 367 vidov zhuzhelits. Ustanovleno, chto granitsy mezhdu Vostochno- i Zapadnoevropeyskoy provintsiyami obuslovleny faunogeneticheskimi prichinami, a mezhdu rayonami - landshaftno-zonal"nymi osobennostyami vzaimoproniknoveniya taezhnoy, nemoral"noy i stepnoy faun. Vpervye proveden kompleksnyy ekologo-faunisticheskiy analiz biotopicheskogo raspredeleniya zhuzhelits vo vsekh osnovnykh tipakh biogeotsenozov. Rekonstruirovany vozmozhnye puti formirovaniya fauny. Otseneno vliyanie rekreatsii na naselenie zhuzhelits lesov, vozdeystviya osushitel"noy melioratsii i sel"skokhozyaystvennogo osvoeniya na zhuzhelits bolot, obrabotki pochvy i primeneniya pestitsidov - na zhuzhelits agrotsenozov. Dan prognoz vozmozhnykh dal"neyshikh transformatsiy karabidokompleksov pod vliyaniem antropogennykh vozdeystviy.