Land snail fauna of Mé Auré cave (WMD007), Moindou, New Caledonia: Human introductions and faunal change

Pacific Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 447-460

  Cowie, Robert H ^a   Grant Mackie, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; SNAIL; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA; NOUVELLE CALEDONIE [NEW CALEDONIA (DPS)]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ACHATINA FULICA; ACHATINIDAE; ALLOPEAS; ALLOPEAS GRACILE; ANDREFRANCIA SAISSETI; ANDREFRANCIA VETULA; BULIMULIDAE; CHAROPIDAE; FULICA; GASTROPODA; PLACOSTYLUS; RHYTIDA; RHYTIDIDAE; STYLOMMATOPHORA; SUBULINIDAE;

EID: 4644319806     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/psc.2004.0029     Document Type: Article

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