Species richness patterns along environmental gradients in island land molluscan fauna

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1738-1746

  Chiba, Satoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diversity pattern; Ecotone effect; Japan; Land mollusca; Mass effect; Ogasawara; Productivity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; ISLAND; MOLLUSC; SNAIL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANI ISLAND; ASIA; BONIN ISLANDS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); TOKYO [KANTO];

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MOLLUSC; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MOLLUSCA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 34548436180     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1735.1     Document Type: Article

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