Mutualistic relationship between freshwater snails and aquatic macrophytes

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5427-5432

  Li, Kuan Yi ^a,b   Wen, Ming Zhang ^c   Yang, Hong Wei ^a,d   Li, Yan Min ^e   Liu, Zheng Wen ^a,f  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bellamya aeruginosa; Mutualistic relationship; Radix swinhoei; Snail density; Vallisneria spiralis

Indexed keywords

BASOMMATOPHORA; BELLAMYA AERUGINOSA; GASTROPODA; RADIX SWINHOEI; VALLISNERIA SPIRALIS;

EID: 77952172895     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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