High predation pressure by an introduced flatworm on land snails on the Oceanic Ogasawara Islands

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 700-703

  Sugiura, Shinji ^a   Okochi, Isamu ^a   Tamada, Hisashi ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conservation; Invasive species; Platydemus manokwari; Snail predators

Indexed keywords

INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORTALITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SNAIL;

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

GASTROPODA; PLATYDEMUS MANOKWARI; PLATYHELMINTHES; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 33747057979     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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