Large-scale terrestrial gastropod community composition patterns in the Great Lakes region of North America

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-71

  Nekola, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Community ecology; Conservation biology; Landscape pattern; Multi dimensional scaling; North America; Soil architecture; Terrestrial gastropods

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION; ORDINATION; SNAIL; SOIL SURFACE;

NORTH AMERICA;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 0037248193     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2003.00165.x     Document Type: Article

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