The interspecific relationship between abundance and body size in central European land snail assemblages

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-134

  Hausdorf, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crude density; Ecological density; Energetic equivalence rule; Gastropoda; Macroecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33846594195     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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