Latitudinal and altitudinal diversity patterns and Rapoport effects in north-west European land snails and their causes

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 309-323

  Hausdorf, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; LATITUDE; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 33644988955     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00580.x     Document Type: Article

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