Structure and conservation of Sri Lankan land-snail assemblages in fragmented lowland rainforest and village home gardens

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1019-1028

  Raheem, D C ^a,b   Naggs, F ^a   Preece, R C ^b   Mapatuna, Y ^c   Kariyawasam, L ^d   Eggleton, P ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

^d Department of National Museums   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Conservation; Habitat fragmentation; Home gardens; Land snails; Rainforest; Tropics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION; FOREST COVER; GARDEN; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; RAINFOREST; SNAIL; SURVIVAL; VILLAGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 46749090424     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01470.x     Document Type: Article

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