Land snail faunas along an environmental gradient in the Altai Mountains (Russia)

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-86

  Hoffmann, Matthias H ^a   Meng, Stefan ^b   Kosachev, Pjotr A ^c   Terechina, Tatjana A ^c   Silanteva, Marina M ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c ALTAI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; COEXISTENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SNAIL; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION TYPE;

ALTAY [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; CENTRAL ASIA; EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PUPILLA (GASTROPOD); STYLOMMATOPHORA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79251573864     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: 14643766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eyq039     Document Type: Article

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