Land-snail diversity in a square kilometre of Cretan maquis: Modest species richness, high density and local homogeneity

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-99

  Cameron, R A D ^a,b   Mylonas, M ^c   Triantis, K ^c   Parmakelis, A ^c   Vardinoyannis, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOGENEITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CRETE; GREECE;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 0037572415     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/69.2.93     Document Type: Article

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