Pavel Stoev

Monograph

• Stoev, P. 2002. A Catalogue and Key to the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Bulgaria. Pensoft Publishers, Series Faunistica, 25, Sofia-Moscow, 103 pp.
• Petrov, B., Stoev, P. 2007. The underground world of the mountain Rhodopes. UNDP, Rhodopes Project, 86 pp. (In Bulgarian).
• Biserkov, V. (ed.), Naumov, B., Tsankov, N., Stoyanov, A., Petrov, B., Dobrev, D., Stoev, P. 2007. A Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Bulgaria. Green Balkans, Sofia, 196 pp. (In Bulgarian).
• Potts, S., Biesmeijer, K., Bommarco, R., Breeze, T., Carvalheiro, L., Franzén, M., González-Varo, J.P., Holzschuh, A., Kleijn, D., Klein, A.-M., Kunin, B., Lecocq, T., Lundin, O., Michez, D., Neumann, P., Nieto, A., Penev, L., Rasmont, P., Ratamäki, O., Riedinger, V., Roberts, S.P.M., Rundlöf, M., Scheper, J., Sørensen, P., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stoev, P., Vilà, M., Schweiger, O. 2015. Status and trends of European pollinators. Key findings of the STEP project. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, 72 pp.

Published databases

• Stoev P (2006) Scutigeromorpha. In: Minelli A (Ed) CHILOBASE: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) for the Web http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it, first release: 2 May 2006.

Editorial work

• Xylander, W. (Editor-in-Chief), Voigtländer K., (Managing editor), Barber A., Dunger, W., Geoffroy, J.J., Kos, I, Stoev, P., Tajovský, K. 2005. Myriapoda in Europe. Habitats and Biodiversity. Contributions to the Colloquium of European Myriapodologists 30 July – 1 August 2004, International Meeting Centre, St. Marienthal. – Peckiana, vol. 4, 211 pp.
• Deltshev, C., Stoev, P. (Eds) 2006. Proceedings of the 22nd European Colloquium of Arachnology, Blagoevgrad 2005 – Acta zoologica bulgarica, 2006, Supplementum 1, 343 pp.
• Stoev, P., Dunlop, J., Lazarov S. (Eds) 2009. А life caught in a spider’s web. Papers in arachnology in honour of Christo Deltshev. ZooKeys, 16, 375 pp.

Research articles

• Stoev, P., Ribarov, G. 1995. Contributions to the study of cave Myriapoda from Bulgaria. – Acta zoologica bulgarica, 48: 89-96.
• Ivanova, T., Stoev, P., Petrov, B. 1995. Brachytarsina flavipennis Masquart, 1851 (Diptera Streblidae), member of a new family for the Bulgarian fauna. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 5: 35-36.
• Stoev, P. 1997. Notes on the Chilopoda of Albania, 1. – Arthropoda Selecta, 5 (3/4): 125-130. [for 1996].
• Stoev, P. 1997. Lithobius christovici Matic et Golemansky, 1964 - The junior synonym of Lithobius ergus (Chamberlin, 1952) (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). – Annuaire de l’Université de Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 1977, volume 88, livre 4: 111-113, 6 - ème session scientifique, Sofia, 1996.
• Mauriès, J.-P., Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 1997. The millipedes of Albania: recent data, new taxa; systematical, nomenclatural and faunistical review (Myriapoda, Diplopoda). – Zoosystema, 19 (2-3): 255-292.
• Stoev, P. 1997. A check-list of the centipedes of the Balkan peninsula with some taxonomic notes and a complete bibliography (Chilopoda). – Entomologica Scandinavica, Supplement, 51: 87-105.
• Spassov, N., Ivanov, V., Georgiev, K., Stoev, P. 1999. Study on the potential ecological corridors between the local populations of the brown bear in Bulgaria. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 10: 133-146.
• Deltshev, Ch., Beron, P., Blagoev, G., Golemansky, V., Peneva, V., Stoev, P., Todorov, M., Hubenov, Z. 2000. Faunistic Diversity of Invertebrates (non Insecta) in Central Balkan National Park. – In: Sakaljan M. (Ed.). Biological Diversity of the Central Balkan National Park. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow: 289-317.
• Deltshev, Ch., Beron, P., Blagoev, G., Golemansky, V., Najdenov, V., Peneva, V., Stoev, P., Todorov, M., Hubenov, Z. 2000. Faunistic Diversity of Invertebrates (non Insecta) of the Rila National Park. – In: Sakaljan M. (Ed.). Biological Diversity of the Rila National Park. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow: 249-284.
• Stoev, P. 2000. On the distribution, biology and ecology of reptiles and amphibians in the Derventsky Heights and the Sakar Mountain (South-East Bulgaria). – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 12: 59-69.
• Stoev, P., Beron, P. 2001. On the type specimens of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia. – Arthropoda Selecta, 9 (2): 91-102. [for 2000].
• Stoev, P. 2001. On centipedes (Chilopoda) of Albania, 2. – Arthropoda Selecta, 9 (3): 199-206. [for 2000].
• Stoev, P. 2001. A synopsis of the Bulgarian cave centipedes (Chilopoda). – Arthropoda Selecta, 10 (1): 31-54.
• Stoev, P. 2001. On the centipedes (Chilopoda) of the Republic of Macedonia. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 13: 93-107.
• Stoev, P. 2001. On two myriapods (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) new to the fauna of Albania. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 13: 109-110.
• Stoev, P. 2001. Management plan for the Rila Monastery Natural Park. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 13: 108. (In Bulgarian).
• Petrov, B., Stoev, P., Beshkov, V. 2001. A review of the species composition and distribution of the amphibians (Amphibia) and reptiles (Reptilia) in the Eastern Rhodopes Mountain. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 13: 127-153. (In Bulgarian, English summary).
• Stoev, P. 2001. Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) of Kresna Gorge (SW Bulgaria). – In: Beron, P. (еd.) Biodiversity of Kresna Gorge. National Museum of Natural History, Institute of Zoology, Sofia: 103-107. (In Bulgarian).
• Spassov, N., Stoev, P. 2001. The Kresna Gorge - an ecological corridor for the large mammals (Macromammalia). – In: Beron, P. (ed.). Biodiversity of Kresna Gorge. National Museum of Natural History, Institute of Zoology, Sofia: 335-340. (In Bulgarian).
• Stoev, P. 2002. The scutigeromorphs (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 15: 79-85.
• Stoev, P. 2002. Bulgarian Herpetological Society – The First Non-Governmental organisation for protection of the Bulgarian herpetofauna. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 15: 86. (In Bulgarian).
• Stoev, P. 2003. Species composition and conservation significance of the myriapods (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) of Rila Monastery Nature Park, pp. 134-138. – In: Peev, D. (ed.) Rapid Ecological Assessment of Rila Monastery Nature Park. United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Sofia, 203 pp. (In Bulgarian).
• Stoev, P. 2003. Species composition and conservation significance of the Amphibians and Reptiles in Rila Monastery Nature Park, pp. 139-142. – In: Peev, D. (ed.) Rapid Ecological Assessment of Rila Monastery Nature Park. United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Sofia, 203 pp. (In Bulgarian, English summary).
• Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2003. Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of genus Balkanopetalum Verhoeff, 1926 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). – Zootaxa, 272: 1-26.
• Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2004. The first indigenous species of the millipede genus Eurygyrus C.L. Koch, 1847 from the European mainland, with remarks on E. nicarius (Verhoeff, 1901) and E. euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901), and a key to the species of the genus (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). – Zootaxa, 419: 1-8.
• Stoev, P. 2004. The first troglomorphic species of the millipede genus Paracortina Wang & Zhang, 1993 from south Yunnan, China (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Paracortinidae). – Zootaxa, 441: 1-8.
• Stoev, P. 2004. New distributional records of millipedes from Bulgarian caves (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). – Acta zoologica bulgarica, 56 (2): 145-154.
• Stoev, P., Geoffroy, J.-J. 2004. An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha). – Zootaxa, 635: 1-12.
• Stoev, P. 2004. Centipedes (Chilopoda) from Greece in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 16: 81-88.
• Stoev, P. 2004. Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in Urban Environments in the City of Sofia, 299-306. – In: Penev, L., Niemelä, J., Kotze, D.J., Chipev, N. (eds) Ecology of the City of Sofia. Species and communities in an Urban Environment. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 456 pp.
• Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 2004. A new species of the millipede genus Metonomastus Attems, 1937 from a cave in the Eastern Rhodopi Mountains, Bulgaria, with some remarks on its congeners (Diplopoda: Paradoxosomatidae). – In: Beron, P., Popov, A. (eds). Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft & National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 199-205.
• Stoev, P. 2004. The myriapods (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) of the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). – In: Beron, P. & Popov, A. (eds). Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft & National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 207-220.
• Beron, P., Petrov, B., Stoev, P. 2004. The invertebrate cave fauna of the Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria, Greece). – In: Beron, P. & Popov, A. (eds). Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 2. Biodiversity of Eastern Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). Pensoft & National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 791-822.
• Stoev, P., Geoffroy, J.J. 2004. Review of the millipede family Paracortinidae Wang & Zhang, 1993 (Diplopoda: Callipodida). – Acta Arachnologica, 53 (2): 93-103.
• Stoev, P. 2005. On the identity of some poorly known lithobiid centipedes described by Karl Verhoeff (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). – Zootaxa, 796: 1-12.
• Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2005. A new cave-dwelling millipede of the genus Bollmania Silvestri, 1896 from Yunnan, China, with remarks on the reduction of the second female leg-pair (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Caspiopetalidae). – Journal of Natural History, 39: 1875-1891.
• Stagl, V., Stoev, P. 2005. Type specimens of the order Callipodida (Diplopoda) in the Natural History Museum in Vienna. – Kataloge der wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Myriapoda. Band 19, Heft 2: 1-26.
• Stoev, P., Lapeva-Gjonova, A. 2005. Myriapods from ant nests in Bulgaria (Chilopoda, Diplopoda). – Peckiana, 4: 131-142.
• Golemansky, V., Todorov, M., Pandurski, I., Georgiev, B., Uzunov, Y., Peneva, V., Konsulova, Ts., Kozhuharov, D., Andreev, S., Stoev, P. 2005. Biodiversity of lower invertebrates in Bulgaria: present state, problems, perspectives, pp. 105-127. – In: Petrova, A. (ed.) Current state of Bulgarian biodiversity – problems and perspectives. Bulgarian Bioplatform, Sofia, 565 pp. (In Bulgarian).
• Biserkov, V., Petrov, B., Naumov, B., Beshkov, V., Dobrev, D., Duhalov, D., Stoev, P., Hristov, K., Ivanchev, I. 2005. Conservation of the biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles – achievements and future tasks, pp. 283-292. – In: Petrova, A. (ed.) Current state of Bulgarian biodiversity – problems and perspectives. Bulgarian Bioplatform, Sofia, 565 pp. (In Bulgarian).
• Scheller, U., Stoev, P. 2006. First records of Symphyla (Myriapoda) from Bulgaria. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 17: 35-37.
• Stoev, P. 2006. 22nd European Colloquium of Arachnology. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 17: 38. (In Bulgarian).
• Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2006. A review of the millipede genus Dorypetalum Verhoeff, 1900 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Dorypetalidae). – Zootaxa, 1254: 29-43.
• Sammler, S., Voigtländer, K., Stoev, P., Enghoff, H., Müller, C.H.G. 2006. New studies on myriapods (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) from Ibiza with a checklist for the Balearic Islands. – Norwegian Journal of Entomology, 53 (2): 299-309.
• Stoev, P. 2007. Fauna and Zoogeography of Myriapoda in Bulgaria. – In: Fet, V., Popov, A. (eds) Monographiae Biologicae. Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria. Dodrecht, Springer Publishers, 379-403.
• Stoev, P. 2007. First description of the male of the millipede Eurygyrus euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901) (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). – Zootaxa, 1447: 63-68.
• Stoev, P., Enghoff, H., Panha, S., Fuangarworn, M. 2007. A second species in the millipede suborder Sinocallipodidea Shear, 2000 (Diplopoda: Callipodida). – Zootaxa, 1450: 63-68.
• Vagalinski, B., Stoev, P. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the millipede order Julida (Diplopoda) in Bulgaria. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 18: 35-63.
• Stoev, P. 2007. Biospeleological investigations in Turkey and Georgia in summer 2006. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 18: 34. (In Bulgarian).
• Stoev, P. 2007. The first Bulgarian encyclopedia of speleology [book review]. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 18: 64. (In Bulgarian).
• Stoev, P., Sierwald, P., Billey, A. 2008. An annotated world catalogue of the millipede order Callipodida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). – Zootaxa, 1706: 1-50.
• Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2008. A revision of the millipede tribe Apfelbeckiini Verhoeff, 1900 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). – Steenstrupia, 30 (1): 47-66.
• Akkari, N., Stoev, P., Lewis, J.G.E. 2008. The scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) of Tunisia: taxonomy, distribution and habitats. – ZooKeys, 3: 77-102.
• Stoev, P. 2008. A new species of Acanthopetalum Verhoeff, 1900 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae) from Bulgaria, with a review of the A. richii (Gray, 1832) group. – International Journal of Myriapodology, 2: 155-170.
• Bachvarova, D., Stoev, P. 2008. A contribution to the study of myriapods (Diplopoda, Chilopoda) of the town of Shumen and the Shumen plateau (Northeastern Bulgaria). – Annual of the Shumen University Episkop Konstantin Preslavski, Faculty of Nature Sciences, 18 B 6: 55-70. (In Bulgarian).
• Stoev, P. 2008. Zoological investigations in Tunisia. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 19: 98. (In Bulgarian).
• Bachvarova, D., Stoev, P., Deltshev, Ch. 2008. Some results of the study of diel activity of myriapods and spiders in anthropogenic and rural habitats in the town of Shumen and Shumensko Plateau (northeastern Bulgaria). – Proceedings of the ІІІ Congress of ecologists of the Republic of Macedonia with international participation, 06-09.10.2007, Struga, Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society, Skopje, vol. 8: 486-490.
• Gorgievska, A., Preliќ, D., Hristovski, S. & Stoev, P. 2008. Spatial variation of myriapods along an Urban-Rural gradient in Skopje City and its surroundings. – Ekologija i zaštita na životnata sredina (Skopje) [Ecology and protection of the environment (Skopje)], 11 (1/2): 43-54.
• Popov, A., Stoev, P. 2008. National Museum of Natural History. NMNH-BAS, Sofia, 20 pp.
• Petrov B., Stoev P. 2009. Methods for collecting and preserving of cave animals. – Proceedings of the Exploration and protection of caves conference (24th October 2008) and 80 years organized speleology in Bulgaria symposium (22nd March, 2009), Sofia, Bulgarian Federation of Speleology, Sofia, ISBN 978-954-8827-05-8, 127-143. (In Bulgarian).
• Golovatch, S.I., Mauriès, J.-P., Akkari, N., Stoev, P., Geoffroy, J.-J. 2009. The millipede genus Glomeris Latreille, 1802 (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae) in North Africa. – ZooKeys, 12: 47-86.
• Stoev, P., Popov, A., Blagoev, G., Lazarov, S. 2009. Fifty years of devotion to spiders: a concise biography of Christo Deltshev, with a complete list of his publications and described taxa. – In: Stoev, P., Dunlop, J., Lazarov, S. (Eds). А life caught in a spider’s web. Papers in arachnology in honour of Christo Deltshev. ZooKeys, 16: 1-26.
• Stoev, P., Shelley, R. 2009. The Millipede Order Callipodida in Mexico, with Descriptions of a New Genus and Species from Sonora (Schizopetalidae). – In: Roble, S.M., Mitchell, J.C. (eds.). A Lifetime of Contributions to Myriapodology and the Natural History of Virginia: A Festschrift in Honor of Richard L. Hoffman’s 80th Birthday. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 16, Martinsville, VA, pp. 159-165.
• Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 2009. New or poorly-known millipedes (Diplopoda) from Papua New Guinea, 1. – Arthropoda Selecta, 18 (3-4): 125-130.
• Akkari, N., Stoev, P., Enghoff, H., Nouira, S. 2009. The millipede order Julida (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) in Tunisia, with an overview of the North African species. – Soil organisms, 81 (3): 453-488.
• Akkari, N., Enghoff, H., Stoev, P., Mauriès, J.-P. 2010. On the identity of Basigona lucasii Silvestri, 1896, a poorly known millipede from Tunisia, with notes on the North African Chordeumatida (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Chamaesomatidae). – Zootaxa, 2427: 64-68.
• Penev, L., Agosti, D., Georgiev, T., Catapano, T., Miller, J., Blagoderov, V., Roberts, D., Smith, V.S., Brake, I., Ryrcroft, S., Scott, B., Johnson, N.F., Morris, R.A., Sautter, G., Chavan, V., Robertson, T., Remsen, D., Stoev, P., Parr, C., Knapp, S., Kress, W.J., Thompson, F.C., Erwin, T. 2010. Semantic tagging of and semantic enhancements to systematics papers: ZooKeys working examples. – ZooKeys, 50: 1-16. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.538
• Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Zapparoli, M., Porco, D., Enghoff, H., Edgecombe, G.D., Georgiev, T., Penev, L. 2010. The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with a key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group. – ZooKeys, 50: 29-77. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.50.504
• Stoev, P., Zapparoli, M., Golovatch, S., Enghoff, H., Akkari, N., Barber, A. 2010. Myriapods (Myriapoda). Chapter 7.2. – In: Roques, A. Kenis, M., Lees, D., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Rabitsch, W., Rasplus, J.-Y., Roy, D. (Eds) Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe. – BioRisk, 4 (1): 97-130.
• Stoev, P., Korsós, Z. 2010. Oxidus gracilis (C.L. Koch, 1847) (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Factsheet 14.2. – In: Roques, A. Kenis, M., Lees, D., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Rabitsch, W., Rasplus, J.-Y., Roy, D. (Eds) Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe. – BioRisk, 4 (2): 864-865.
• Golovatch, S., Stoev, P., VandenSpiegel, D. 2010. New or poorly-known millipedes (Diplopoda) from Papua New Guinea, 2. – Arthropoda Selecta, 19(3): 129-143.
• Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 2010. New or poorly-known millipedes (Diplopoda) from Papua New Guinea, 3. – Arthropoda Selecta, 19(3): 145-152.
• Felesaki, I., Stoev, P., Simaiakis, S., Mylonas, M. 2010. A catalogue of the millipedes of Crete (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). – Natura Montenegrina, Podgorica, 9(3): 357-368.
• Stoev, P., Gerlach, J. 2010. Lithobiomorpha and Scutigeromorpha. – In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. (eds). Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, 376-378.
• Deltshev, C., Lazarov, S., Naumova, M., Stoev, P. 2011. A survey of spiders (Araneae) inhabiting the euedaphic soil stratum and the superficial underground compartment in Bulgaria. – Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 40: 33-46.
• Penev, L., Stoev, P., Kress, W. J., Knapp, S., Erwin, T.L. 2011. Cybertaxonomy, semantic markup and semantic enhancements: The PhytoKeys and ZooKeys experience. – South African Journal of Botany, 77(2): 560.
• Penev, L., Hagedorn, G., Mietchen, D., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P., Sautter, G., Agosti, D., Plank, A., Balke, M., Hendrich, L., Erwin, T. 2011. Interlinking journal and wiki publications through joint citation: Working examples from ZooKeys and Plazi on Species-ID. – ZooKeys, 90: 1-12. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.90.1369
• Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2011. A review of the millipede genus Sinocallipus Zhang, 1993 (Diplopoda, Callipodida, Sinocallipodidae), with notes on gonopods monotony vs. peripheral diversity in millipedes. – ZooKeys, 90: 13-34. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.90.1291
• Akkari, N., Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2011. Two new cavernicolous genera of Julidae (Diplopoda: Julida), with notes on the tribe Brachyiulini and on julid subanal hooks and anchors. – ZooKeys, 114: 1-14. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.114.1490
• Golovatch, S.I., Stoev, P. 2011. Review of the millipede genus Eustrongylosoma Silvestri, 1896 in the island of New Guinea, with descriptions of nine new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). – International Journal of Myriapodology, 5: 1–26. doi: 10.3897/ijm.5.2090
• Erwin, T., Stoev, P., Georgiev, T., Penev, L. 2011. ZooKeys 150: Three and a half years of innovative publishing and growth. In: Smith, V., Penev, L. (Eds) e-Infrastructures for data publishing in biodiversity science. ZooKeys 150: 5–14. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.150.2431
• Vagalinski, B., Stoev, P. 2011. An annotated checklist of the myriapods of the Western Rhodopes Mts (Bulgaria and Greece). – In: Beron, P. (ed.). Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 4. Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece) II. Pensoft and National Museum of Natural History, Sofia: 129-143.
• Beron, P., Petrov, B., Stoev, P. 2011. The invertebrate cave fauna of the Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece). – In: Beron, P. (ed.) Biodiversity of Bulgaria. 4. Biodiversity of Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria and Greece) II. Pensoft and National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, 583-662.
• Remsen, D., Knapp, S., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P., Penev, L. 2012. From text to structured data: Converting a word processed floristic checklist into Darwin Core Archive format. – PhytoKeys, 9: 1-13. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.9.2770
• Henle, K., Bell, S., Brotons, L., Clobert, J., Evans, D., Görg, C., Grodzińska-Jurcak, M., Gruber, B., Haila, Y., Henry, P.-Y., Huth, A., Julliard, R., Keil, P., Kleyer, M., Kotze, D.J., Kunin, W., Lengyel, S., Lin, Y.-P., Loyau, A., Luck, G.W., Magnusson, W., Margules, C., Matsinos, Y., May, P., Pinto, I., Possingham, H., Potts, S., Ring, I., Pryke, J., Samways, M., Saunders, D., Schmeller, D., Similä, J., Sommer, S., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stoev, P., Sykes, M., Tóthmérész, B., Tzanopoulos, J., Yam, R., Penev, L. 2012. Nature Conservation – a new dimension in Open Access publishing bridging science and application. – Nature Conservation, 1: 1–10. doi: 10.3897/natureconservation.1.3081
• Penev, L., Cerretti, P., Tschorsnig, H.-P., Lopresti, M., Di Giovanni, F., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P. 2012. Publishing online identification keys in the form of scholarly papers. – ZooKeys, 205: 1–3. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.205.3581
• Graham, M., Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Blagoev, G., Fet, V. 2012. Euscorpius sicanus (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Tunisia: DNA barcoding confirms ancient disjunctions across the Mediterranean Sea. – Serket, 13(1-2): 16-26.
• Clark, V.R., Perera, S.J., Stiller, M., Stirton, C.H., Weston, P., Stoev, P., Coombs, G., Morris, D.B., Ratnayake-Perera, D., Barker, N.P., MacGregor, G.K. 2012. A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): implications for conservation. – SpringerPlus 2012, 1: 56 doi: 10.1186/2193-1801-1-56
• Kress, W.J., Knapp, S., Stoev, P., Penev, L. 2012. On the front line of modern data-management and Open Access publishing: Two years of PhytoKeys – the fastest growing journal in plant systematics. PhytoKeys, 19: 1–8. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.19.4501
• Erwin, T., Penev, L., Stoev, P., Georgiev, T. 2012. Accelerating innovative publishing in taxonomy and systematics: 250 issues of ZooKeys. ZooKeys, 251: 1–10. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.251.4516
• Penev, L., Catapano, T., Agosti, D., Georgiev, T., Sautter, G., Stoev, P. 2012. Implementation of TaxPub, an NLM DTD extension for domain-specific markup in taxonomy, from the experience of a biodiversity publisher. In: Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) Proceedings 2012 [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Center for Biotechnology Information (US); 2012. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100351/
• Golovatch, S.I., Geoffroy, J.-J., Stoev, P., Vanden Spiegel. D. 2013. Review of the millipede family Opisotretidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new species. – ZooKeys, 302: 13–77. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.302.5357
• Schmidt, S., Broad, G.R., Stoev. P., Mietchen, D., Penev, L. 2013. The move to open access and growth: experience from Journal of Hymenoptera Research. – Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 30: 1–6. doi: 10.3897/JHR.30.4733
• Akkari, N., Cheung, D.K-B., Enghoff, H., Stoev, P. 2013. Revolving SEM images visualising 3D taxonomic characters: application to six species of the millipede genus Ommatoiulus Latzel, 1884, with description of seven new species and an interactive key to the Tunisian members of the genus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae). – ZooKeys, 328: 5–45. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.328.5763
• Stoev, P., Penev, L., Akkari, N., Cheung, D.K-B., Enghoff, H., Brunke, A., de Souza, C.M., Pape, T., Mietchen, D., Erwin, T. 2013. Revolving images and multi-image keys open new horizons in descriptive taxonomy: ZooKeys working examples. ZooKeys, 328: 1–3. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.328.6171
• Smith, V., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P., Biserkov, J., Miller, J., Livermore, L., Baker, E., Mietchen, D., Couvreur, T., Mueller, G., Dikow, T., Helgen, K., Frank, J., Agosti, D., Roberts, D., Penev, L. 2013. Beyond dead trees: integrating the scientific process in the Biodiversity Data Journal. – Biodiversity Data Journal, 1: e995. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e995
• Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 2013. The millipede family Paradoxosomatidae in the Philippines, with a description of Eustrongylosoma penevi sp. n., and notes on Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895, recorded in Malaysia and Sri Lanka for the first time (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). – Biodiversity Data Journal, 1: e957. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e957
• Stoev, P., Komerički, A., Akkari, N., Liu, S., Zhou, X., Weigand, A., Hostens, J., Hunter, C., Edmunds, S., Porco, D., Zapparoli, M., Georgiev, T., Mietchen, D., Roberts, D., Faulwetter, S., Smith, V., Penev, L. 2013. Eupolybothrus cavernicolus Komerički & Stoev sp. n. (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): the first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging data. – Biodiversity Data Journal, 1: e1013. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e1013
• Edmunds, S., Hunter, C., Smith, V., Stoev, P., Penev, L. 2013. Biodiversity research in the “big data” era: GigaScience and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich species description. – GigaScience 2013, 2:14 doi: 10.1186/2047-217X-2-14
• Settele, J., Kühn, I., Klotz, S., Arida, G., Bergmeier, E., Burkhard, B., Bustamante, J.V., Dao Thanh Truong, Escalada, M., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Ho Van Chien, Heong, K.L., Hirneisen, N., Hotes, S., Jahn, R., Klotzbücher, T., Marion, G., Marquez, L., Marxen, A., Moritz, R., Müller, F., Nguyen Van Sinh, Ott, J., Penev, L., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Schädler, M., Scheu, S., Seppelt, R., Stoev, P., Tscharntke, T., Tekken, V., Thonicke, K., Vetterlein, D., Vidal, S., Villareal, S., Weisser, W.W., Westphal, C., Wiemers, M., Spangenberg, J.H. 2013. Kulturlandschaftsforschung in Südostasien – das LEGATO-Projekt. Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde, 87(3): 315-323. Deutsche Akademie für Landeskunde e.V. & Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig.
• Golovatch, S.I., Stoev, P. 2014. Review of the Papuan millipede genus Silvattia Jeekel, 2009, with descriptions of three new species (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae: Eustrongylosomatini). – In: Telnov, D. (Ed.) Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation of Wallacea and New Guinea, 2: 149-156, plate 4
• Hoffman, A., Penner, J., Vohland, K., Cramer, W., Doubleday, R., Henle, K., Kõljalg, U., Kühn, I., Kunin, W.E., Negro, J.J., Penev, L., Rodríguez, C., Saarenmaa, H., Schmeller, D.S., Stoev, P., Sutherland, W.J., Ó Tuama, É., Wetzel, F.T., Häuser, C.L. 2014. Improved access to integrated biodiversity data for science, practice, and policy - the European Biodiversity Observation Network (EU BON). – Nature Conservation, 6: 49-65. doi: 10.3897/natureconservation.6.6498
• Golovatch, S., Stoev, P. 2014. On five new species of the millipede family Paradoxosomatidae from Papua New Guinea (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). – Arthropoda Selecta, 23(1): 21-32.
• Stoev, P., Li, S., Meng, K. 2014. Chong-zhou Zhang. In memoriam (1930-2014). – Bulletin du Centre International de Myriapodology, 47: 25-29.
• Vagalinski, B., Golovatch, S., Simaiakis, S. M., Enghoff, H., Stoev, P. 2014. Millipedes of Cyprus (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). – Zootaxa, 3835: 528-548.
• de Jong, Y., Verbeek, M., Michelsen, V., Bjørn, P., Los, W., Steeman, F., Bailly, N., Basire, C., Chylarecki, P., Stloukal, E., Hagedorn, G., Wetzel, F., Glöckler, F., Kroupa, A., Korb, G., Hoffmann, A., Häuser, C., Kohlbecker, A., Müller, A., Güntsch, A., Stoev, P., Penev, L. 2014. Fauna Europaea – all European animal species on the web. – Biodiversity Data Journal, 2: e4034. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4034
• Stoev, P., Deltshev, C., Bachvarova, D., Doichinov, A. 2014. Cave Invertebrates in Ponor Special Protection Area (Natura 2000), Western Bulgaria: Faunistic Diversity and Conservation Significance. – Acta zoologica bulgarica, 65, suppl. 5: 75-84.
• Langourov, M., Lazarov, S., Stoev, P., Guéorguiev, B., Deltshev, Ch., Petrov, B., Andreev, S., Simov, N., Bekchiev, R., Antonova, V., Ljubomirov, T., Dedov, I., Georgiev, D. 2014. New and interesting records of the MSS and cave fauna of Vitosha Mt., Bulgaria. – Proceedings of the Balkan Speleological Conference “Sofia 2014” Sofia, Bulgaria, 28-30 March 2014. Dedicated to 85 years of the organised speleology movement in Bulgaria and 50th anniversary of Caving Club “Helictite” – Sofia, 66-76.
• Miller, J., Georgiev, T., Stoev, P., Sautter, G., Penev, L. 2015. Corrected data re-harvested: curating literature in the era of networked biodiversity informatics. – Biodiversity Data Journal, 3: e4552. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4552
• Penev, L., Schmidt, S., Polaszek, A., Georgiev, T., Fernandez-Triana, J., Brehm, G., Stoev, P., Hausmann, A., Ratnasingham, S. and Hebert, P.D., 2015. Streamlining scholarly publication of Barcode of Life data. – Genome, Vol. 58, No. 5: 265-265.
• Erwin, T., Stoev, P., Georgiev, T., Penev, L. 2015. ZooKeys 500: traditions and innovations hand-in-hand servicing our taxonomic community. – ZooKeys, 500: 1-8. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.500.9844
• Bachvarova, D., Doychinov, A., Deltchev, Ch., Stoev, P. 2015. Habitat distribution of myriapods (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in the town of Shumen and the Shumen Plateau (NE Bulgaria). – Arthropoda Selecta, 24 (2): 169-184.
• Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Komerički, A., Edgecombe, G.D., Bonato, L. 2015. At the end of the rope: Geophilus hadesi sp. n. – the world’s deepest cave-dwelling centipede (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae). – In: Tuf, I.H., Tajovský, K. (Eds) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Myriapodology, Olomouc, Czech Republic. ZooKeys, 510: 95-114. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.510.9614
• Stoev, P. 2015. Critically endangered invertebrates: Eupolybothrus andreevi, Troglodicus meridionale, Balkanopetalum rhodopinum, Megaphyllum beroni. – In: Golemansky, V. Et al. (Eds) Red Data Book of the Republic of Bulgaria, Volume 2. Animals. BAS & MoEW, Sofia, pp. 144-147.
• Vagalinski, B., Stoev, P., Enghoff, H. 2015. A review of the millipede genus Typhloiulus Latzel, 1884 (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae), with a description of three new species from Bulgaria and Greece. – Zootaxa, 3999 (3): 334-362.
• Stoev, P. 2015. Order Callipodida. – In: Minelli, A. (Ed.) Treatise on Zoology – Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, vol. 2, Brill, Leiden-Boston, pp. 420-426.
• de Jong, Y., Kouwenberg, J., Boumans, L., Hussey, C., Hyam, R., Nicolson, N., Kirk, P., Paton, A., Michel, E., Guiry, M., Boegh, P., Pedersen, H., Enghoff, H., von Raab-Straube, E., Güntsch, A., Geoffroy, M., Müller, A., Kohlbecker, A., Berendsohn, W., Appeltans, W., Arvanitidis, C., Vanhoorne, B., Declerck, J., Vandepitte, L., Hernandez, F., Nash, R., Costello, M., Ouvrard, D., Bezard-Falgas, P., Bourgoin, T., Wetzel, F., Glöckler, F., Korb, G., Ring, C., Hagedorn, G., Häuser, C., Aktaç, N., Asan, A., Ardelean, A., Borges, P., Dhora, D., Khachatryan, H., Malicky, M., Ibrahimov, S., Tuzikov, A., De Wever, A., Moncheva, S., Spassov, N., Chobot, K., Popov, A., Boršić, I., Sfenthourakis, S., Kõljalg, U., Uotila, P., Olivier, G., Dauvin, J., Tarkhnishvili, D., Chaladze, G., Tuerkay, M., Legakis, A., Peregovits, L., Gudmundsson, G., Ólafsson, E., Lysaght, L., Galil, B., Raimondo, F., Domina, G., Stoch, F., Minelli, A., Spungis, V., Budrys, E., Olenin, S., Turpel, A., Walisch, T., Krpach, V., Gambin, M., Ungureanu, L., Karaman, G., Kleukers, R., Stur, E., Aagaard, K., Valland, N., Moen, T., Bogdanowicz, W., Tykarski, P., Węsławski, J., Kędra, M., M. de Frias Martins, A., Abreu, A., Silva, R., Medvedev, S., Ryss, A., Šimić, S., Marhold, K., Stloukal, E., Tome, D., Ramos, M., Valdés, B., Pina, F., Kullander, S., Telenius, A., Gonseth, Y., Tschudin, P., Sergeyeva, O., Vladymyrov, V., Rizun, V., Raper, C., Lear, D., Stoev, P., Penev, L., Rubio, A., Backeljau, T., Saarenmaa, H., Ulenberg, S. 2015. PESI - a taxonomic backbone for Europe. – Biodiversity Data Journal, 3: e5848. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5848
• Bachvarova, D., Doichinov, A., P., Stoev, P., Kalchev, K. 2015. Habitat preferences and effect of environmental factors on the seasonal activity of Lithobius nigripalpis L. Koch, 1867 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae). – International Research Journal of Natural Sciences (IRJNS), Vol. 3, Issue 4: 1-13.
• Bachvarova, D., Doichinov, A., Jordanova, P., Stoev, P., Deltshev, Ch. 2015. A study on the diel activity of myriapods (Diplopoda, Chilopoda) in natural and anthropogenically influenced habitats. – International Research Journal of Natural Sciences (IRJNS), Vol. 3, Issue 4: 27-47.
• Penev, L., Paton, A., Nicolson, N., Kirk, P., Pyle, R.L., Whitton, R., Georgiev, T., Barker, C., Hopkins, C., Robert, V., Biserkov, J., Stoev, P. 2016. A common registration-to-publication automated pipeline for nomenclatural acts for higher plants (International Plant Names Index, IPNI), fungi (Index Fungorum, MycoBank) and animals (ZooBank). – In: Michel, E. (Ed.) Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborn to the 21st century and beyond. ZooKeys 550: 233–246.doi: 10.3897/zookeys.550.9551
• Henle, K., Stoev, P., Penev, L. 2016. Nature Conservation – achievements and challenges within its first four years. Nature Conservation 14: 1-5.doi: 10.3897/natureconservation.14.8773
• Burkhard, B., Maes, J., Geneletti, D., Stoev, P., Penev, L. 2016. One Ecosystem: Innovation in ecology and sustainability research publishing. One Ecosystem 1: e9255. doi: 10.3897/oneeco.1.e9255
• Smirnova, L., Mergen, P., Groom, Q., De Wever, A., Penev, L., Stoev. P., Pe’er. I., Runnel, V., Camacho, A., Vincent, T., Agosti, D., Arvanitidis, C., Bonet, F., Saarenmaa, H. 2016. Data sharing tools adopted by the European Biodiversity Observation Network Project. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e9390. doi: 10.3897/rio.2.e9390

• Proibiosphere: Coordination and policy development in preparation for a European Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management System, addressing Acquisition, Curation, Synthesis, Interoperability and Dissemination
• EUBON: Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network
• BESAFE: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Arguments for our Future Environment, www.besafe-project.net
• SCALES: Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales, www.scales-project.net
• MOTIVE: Models for Adaptive Forest Management, www.motive-project.net
• STEP: Status and Trends of European Pollinators, www.step-project.net
• ViBRANT: Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy, www.vbrant.eu
• CEBDER: Development of National Centre of Excellence in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, www.ecolab.bas.bg/cebder
• PESI: A pan-European species directories infrastructure, www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi