A new approach to studying and sampling land molluscs: Habitat structure and the effects of scale on land molluscs

Journal of Conchology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 321-327

  Menez, Alex ^a  

^a Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

Author keywords

Complexity; Diversity; Habitat structure; Heterogeneity; Land molluscs; Sampling; Southern Iberia; Species estimators

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 34547355875     PISSN: 00220019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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