Fine-scale habitat associations of soft-sediment gastropods at Cape Maclear, Lake Malawi

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 325-328

  Genner, Martin J ^a   Michel, Ellinor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTROPOD; HABITAT SELECTION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROHABITAT; POPULATION DENSITY; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

AFRICA; CAPE MACLEAR; EAST AFRICA; MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

BULINUS; BULINUS NYASSANUS; GASTROPODA; MELANOIDES; PLANORBIDAE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; THIARIDAE;

EID: 0347996178     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/69.4.325     Document Type: Article

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