Terrestrial gastropod responses to an ecosystem-level calcium manipulation in a northern hardwood forest

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 994-1007

  Skeldon, Monica A ^a,c   Vadeboncoeur, Matthew A ^a   Hamburg, Steven P ^a   Blum, Joel D ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

GASTROPOD ABUNDANCE; SLUG ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; ACID DEPOSITION; CALCIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOREST FLOOR; GASTROPOD; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAIL; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; HARDWOODS; SOIL;

HUBBARD BROOK EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 37249033762     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z07-084     Document Type: Article

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