Land snails as indicators of soil humidity in Danubian woodland (SW Slovakia)

Polish Journal of Ecology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 741-747

  Čejka, Tomáš ^a   Hamerlík, Ladislav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Land snails; Response curves; Soil humidity; Woodland

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; CALCIUM; FLOODPLAIN; HUMIDITY; SNAIL; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

SLOVAKIA;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 77149159137     PISSN: 15052249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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