Dietary preferences of two species of Meridolum (Camaenidae: Eupulmonata: Mollusca) in southeastern Australia

Molluscan Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-22

  Puslednik, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 81755180890     PISSN: 13235818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MR02003     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Allan, J. (1950). Land shells of Australia. The Australian Museum Magazine March 31, 1950.
2. Baillie, J., and Groombridge, B. (Eds). (1996). 'IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.' (IUCN: Gland, Switzerland.)
3. Baur, A., Baur, B., and Fröberg, L. (1994). Herbivory on calcicolous lichens: different food preferences and growth rates in two co-existing land snails. Oecologia 98, 313-319.
4. Bishop, M. J. (1981). The biogeography and evolution of the Australian land snails. In 'Ecological Biogeography of Australia'. (Ed. A. Keast.) pp. 924-954. (D. W. Junk: The Hague, Netherlands.)
5. Colman, P. H., and Burch, J. B. (1977). Molluscs (Fauna). Rainforests Parks and Wildlife 2, 53-58.
6. Cowie, R. H. (1992). Evolution and extinction of Partulidae, endemic Pacific Island land snails. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 335, 167-191.
7. Desbuquois, C., and Daguzan, J. (1995). The influence of ingestive conditioning on food choices in the land snail Helix aspersa, Müller (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora). Journal of Molluscan Studies 61, 353-360.
8. Dillon, R. T. (1980). Multivariate analysis of desert snail distribution in an Arizona canyon. Malacologia 19, 201-207.
9. Gervais, J. A., Traveset, A., and Wilson, M. F. (1997). The potential for seed dispersal by the banana slug (Ariolimax columbians). American Midland Naturalist 140, 103-110.
10. Hadfield, M. G. (1986). Extinction in Hawaiian achatinelline snails. Malacologia 27, 67-81.
11. Hadfield, M. G. (1993). Introduction to the symposium: the crisis in invertebrate conservation. American Zoologist 33, 497-498.
12. Heller, J., and Dolev, A. (1994). Biology and population dynamics of crevice-dwelling land snails, Cristataria genezarethana (Clausiliidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 60, 33-46.
13. Johnson, C. N. (1996). Interactions between mammals and ectomycorrhizal fungi (Review). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11, 503-507.
14. Lawrey, J. D. (1983). Lichen herbivory preference: a test of two hypotheses. American Journal of Botany 70, 1118-1194.
15. Little, C. (1998). Molluscs on land. In 'Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Vol. 5, Part A'. (Eds P. L. Beesley, G. J. B. Ross and A. Wells.) pp. 55-58. (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.)
16. McLauchlan, C. F. (1951). Basic work on the life cycles of some Australian snails. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society New South Wales 14, 26-36.
17. Ponder, W. F. (1997). Conservation status, threats and habitat requirements of Australian terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 56, 421-430.
18. Pomeroy, D. E. (1969). Some aspects of the ecology of the land snail, Helix virgata, in South Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 17, 495-514.
19. Puslednik, L. (1998). Conservation at a snails pace: aspects of the biology and ecology of three species of the genus Meridolum with implications for their conservation. Unpublished Thesis, Bachelor of Environmental Science, University of Wollongong.
20. Seddon, M. B. (1998). Red listing for molluscs: a tool for conservation? Journal of Conchology Special publication No. 2, 27-44.
21. Smith, B. J., and Stanisic, J. (1998). Class Pulmonata. In 'Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Vol. 5, Part B'. (Eds P. L. Beesley, G. J. B. Ross and A. Wells.) pp. 1037-1125. (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.)
22. Solem, A. (1985). Simultaneous character convergence and divergence in Western Australian land snails. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 24, 142-163.
23. Visser, S. (1985). Role of soil invertebrates in determining the composition of soil microbial communities. In 'Ecological Interactions in Soil: Plants, Microbes, and Animals'. (Ed. A. H. Fitter.) pp. 297-317. (Blackwell Scientific Publications: Oxford.)
24. Wilson, E. O. (1987). The little things that run the world (the importance and conservation of invertebrates). Conservation Biology 1, 344-346.
25. Yen, A. L., and Butcher, R. J. (1992). Practical conservation of non-marine invertebrates. Search 23, 103-105.
26. Zar, J. H. (1999). 'Biostatistical Analysis.' Fourth Edition. Chapter 19, pp. 398-449. (Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.)