The global decline of nonmarine mollusks

BioScience

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 321-330

  Lydeard, Charles ^a   Cowie, Robert H ^b   Ponder, Winston F ^c   Bogan, Arthur E ^d   Bouchet, Philippe ^e   Clark, Stephanie A ^a   Cummings, Kevin S ^f   Frest, Terrence J ^g   Gargominy, Olivier ^e   Herbert, Dai G ^h   Hershler, Robert ⁱ   Perez, Kathryn E ^a   Roth, Barry ^j   Seddon, Mary ^k   Strong, Ellen E ^l   Thompson, Fred G ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d Research Laboratory   (United States)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^g Deixis Consultants   (United States)

^h NATAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Biodiversity; Endangered species; Gastropods; Hotspots; Nonmarine mollusks

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; PATELLIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842784718     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0321:TGDONM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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