High resilience of Mediterranean land snail communities to wildfires

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2925-2944

  Kiss, Laurence ^a   Magnin, Frédéric ^a  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Land snails; Mediterranean ecosystems; Resilience; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOREST; HUMIDITY; SHADE TOLERANCE; SNAIL; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILDFIRE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PROVENCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 33748989011     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-3430-4     Document Type: Article

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