Chance and necessity: Land-snail faunas of São Miguel, Azores, compared with those of Madeira

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-21

  Cameron, R A D ^a,b   Da Cunha, R M T ^c   Martins, A M Frias ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; FAUNA; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HOME RANGE; IMMIGRATION; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; MADEIRA; PORTUGAL; SAO MIGUEL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 34247192565     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: 14643766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyl027     Document Type: Article

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