Relationships between land snail assemblage patterns and soil properties in temperate-humid forest ecosystems

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 531-545

  Martin, Konrad ^a   Sommer, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance; Calcium; Cluster analysis; Geographical variation; Germany; Soil moisture; Soil pH; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PH; SNAIL; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 1842815832     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.01005.x     Document Type: Article

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