Experimental release of endemic Partula species, extinct in the wild, into a protected area of natural habitat on Moorea

Pacific Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 429-434

  Coote, Trevor ^a   Clarke, Dave ^a   Hickman, Carole S ^b   Murray, James ^c   Pearce Kelly, Paul ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; PROTECTED AREA; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SNAIL;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; MOOREA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

ANIMALIA; EUGLANDINA; EUGLANDINA ROSEA; GASTROPODA; PARTULA; PARTULIDAE; SPIRAXIDAE;

EID: 4644286479     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/psc.2004.0028     Document Type: Article

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