The cause of mollusk decline on the Ogasawara Islands

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1465-1475

  Okochi, Isamu ^a   Sato, Hiroki ^a   Ohbayashi, Takashi ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Ogasawara Subtropical Branch   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decline; Flatworm; Island; Land snail; Mandarina; Mollusk; Ogasawara Islands; Predator

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; SURVIVAL;

ASIA; BONIN ISLANDS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EUGLANDINA; EUGLANDINA ROSEA; GASTROPODA; MANDARINA; MOLLUSCA; OGASAWARANA; PLATYDEMUS MANOKWARI; PLATYHELMINTHES; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 1942488912     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BIOC.0000021334.39072.2d     Document Type: Article

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