Forest snail faunas from S. E. Queensland and N.E. New South Wales (Australia): Patterns of local and regional richness and differentiation

Malacologia

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 445-462

  Stanisic, John ^a   Cameron, Robert A D ^b,c   Pokryszko, Beata M ^d   Nekola, Jeffrey C ^e  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Biodiversity; Distance decay; Europe; Evolution; North America; Terrestrial gastropod

Indexed keywords

CHAROPIDAE; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 34548651360     PISSN: 00762997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4002/0076-2997-49.2.445     Document Type: Article

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