Molecular and morphological analyses of faeces to investigate the diet of earthworm predators: Example of a carnivorous land snail endemic to New Zealand

Pedobiologia

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Boyer, Stephane ^a   Yeates, Gregor W ^b,c   Wratten, Steve D ^a   Holyoake, Andrew ^a   Cruickshank, Robert H ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c PO Box 1758 ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Earthworms; Faecal analysis; Molecular diet analysis; New Zealand; Powelliphanta; Predatory snail

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORY; DIET; EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FECES; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SNAIL; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855339912     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2011.08.002     Document Type: Article

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