Response of snails and slugs to fragmentation of lowland forests in NW Germany

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 685-697

  Kappes, Heike ^a   Jordaens, Kurt ^a   Hendrickx, Frederik ^b,c   Maelfait, Jean Pierre ^b   Lens, Luc ^b   Backeljau, Thierry ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate; Deciduous forest; Disturbance; Edge effect; Extinction delay; Gastropoda; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape; Species richness; Woodland

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; EDGE EFFECT; EXTINCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GASTROPOD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SLUG; SNAIL; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LOWER RHINE BASIN; RHINE BASIN;

ARION FUSCUS; DISCUS ROTUNDATUS; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LIMAX;

EID: 67349162693     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9342-z     Document Type: Article

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