Community ecology of tropical forest snails: 30 years after Solem

Contributions to Zoology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Schilthuizen, Menno ^a,b  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Gastropoda; Mollusca; Rain forests; Species abundance distributions; Species richness

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PULMONATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 79951501352     PISSN: 13834517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18759866-08001001     Document Type: Article

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