Food preferences and dietary overlap by terrestrial snails in Logos area (Edessa, Macedonia, Northern Greece)

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 331-341

  Hatziioannou, M ^a   Eleutheriadis, N ^a   Lazaridou dimitriadou, M ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET OVERLAP; FOOD PREFERENCE; SNAIL;

GREECE, MACEDONIA, EDESSA, LOGOS;

BRADYBAENA FRUTICUM; CEPAEA VINDOBONENSIS; HELIX LUCORUM; MONACHA CARTUSIANA; XEROPICTA ARENOSA;

EID: 0028161061     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/60.3.331     Document Type: Article

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