Feeding strategy and habitat choice in littorina saxatilis (gastropoda: Prosobranchia) and their role in the origin and maintenance of a sympatric polymorphism

Ophelia

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 205-216

  Otero Schmitt, J ^a   Cruz, R ^a   Garcia C ^a   Rolan Alvarez E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOPOLYMORPHISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; FEEDING STRATEGY; HABITAT SELECTION; MICROHABITAT; MICROHABITATS; POLYMORPHISM; ROCKY SHORES; SYMPATRIC POPULATIONS;

SPAIN, GALICIA;

GASTROPODA; GRAMMATOPHORA; LITTORINA SAXATILIS; NAVICULA;

EID: 0030885906     PISSN: 00785326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00785326.1997.10432879     Document Type: Article

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