Gastropod biodiversity at the 'Evolution Canyon' microsite, lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-155

  Pavlíček, Tomáš ^a   Mienis, Hendrik Klaas ^b   Raz, Shmuel ^a   Hassid, Veronique ^c   Rubenyan, Artem ^d   Nevo, Eviatar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Hebrew Reali School   (Israel)

^d MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

'Evolution Canyon'; Gastropods; Israel; Local ecological divergence; Slugs; Snails

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURAL SELECTION; SLUG; SNAIL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; MOUNT CARMEL; NAHAL OREN;

BULIMINUS LABROSUS; CECILIOIDES ACICULA; GASTROPODA; HELIX; MONACHA; MONACHA SYRIACA; PYRAMIDULA RUPESTRIS; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS; SPHINCTEROCHILA; TRUNCATELLINA; VESTALIS; VITREA CONTRACTA; XEROPICTA;

EID: 37249064303     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00920.x     Document Type: Article

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