Environmental factors causing local variation in density and biomass of the snail Leptoxis carinata, in Fishpond Creek, Virginia

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 172-180

  Stewart, Timothy W ^a   Garcia, Joseph E ^a  

^a LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAIL;

FISHPOND CREEK; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

GASTROPODA; LEPTOXIS; LEPTOXIS CARINATA; PLEUROCERIDAE; PULMONATA;

EID: 0036659309     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2002)148[0172:EFCLVD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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