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Ecological Opportunity In Adaptive Radiation Of Galapagos Endemic Land Snails [PDF]
, 2009 The classic evolutionary hypothesis of ecological opportunity proposes that both heterogeneity of resources and freedom from enemies promote phenotypic divergence as a response to increased niche availability.
Crespi, Bernard J., Parent, Christine E.
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COMPOSITION OF FAUNA AND DISTRIBUTION OF LAND SNAILS IN INTRAMONTANE DAGESTAN
Юг России: экология, развитие, 2016 Aim. Taxonomy of Caucasian land snails has been studied well enough, but at the same time, the question remains concerning the distribution of some species of snails on the main areas of the Caucasus, especially its eastern part.
L. J. Harutyunova, M. Z. Magomedova
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Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 2022 Background The negative effect of over-reliance on the use of synthetic pesticides have led to the search for natural alternatives to pest control. This study was designed to evaluate the toxicity effect of the crude plant extracts of Jatropha (Jatropha ...
Hesham Ahmed Metwaly Ibrahim +3 more
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Land Snails of the Madeira Islands [PDF]
Nature, 1922 IN 1892 (Journal of Conchology, vol. vii. No. 1) the Rev. R. Boog Watson published a very interesting discussion of the Madeira snails, in which he raised many questions concerning their origin and history, which he did not attempt to answer. Today, we are still groping for light, but I believe we may reach a number of conclusions which are not likely ...
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Sexual dimorphism in shell size of the land snail Leptopoma perlucidum (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Sexual dimorphism in the shell size and shape of land snails has been less explored compared to that of other marine and freshwater snail taxa. This study examined the differences in shell size and shape across both sexes of Leptopoma perlucidum land ...
Chee-Chean Phung +2 more
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Parasite, 2003 Brachylaima cribbi is a terrestrial trematode of birds and mammals with helic id and hygromild land snails reported as first and second Intermediate hosts. However, reports describing the first Intermediate host range of B.
Butcher A.R., Grove D.I.
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Climatic significance of modern minute land snail shells δ13C and δ18O on the Chinese Loess Plateau
Ecological Indicators, 2022 Land snails are abundant and well preserved in loess-paleosol sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) and are often regarded as valuable climatic indicators in paleoclimate reconstruction.
Xiulan Zong +8 more
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Aquatic polymers can drive pathogen transmission in coastal ecosystems. [PDF]
, 2014 Gelatinous polymers including extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) are fundamental to biophysical processes in aquatic habitats, including mediating aggregation processes and functioning as the matrix of biofilms.
Conrad, Patricia A +6 more
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Mollusk Loves: Becoming With Native and Introduced Land Snails in the Hawaiian Islands
Island Studies Journal, 2022 Hawaiian island land snails once represented one of the most diverse archipelagic evolutionary radiations. Historically, indigenous Hawaiians (Kānaka maoli) and Westerners also heard some snails (kāhuli) sing.
Jonathan Galka
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Land Snail Assemblages of Olive Orchards in Crete, Greece
Diversity, 2022 Land snail biodiversity research in agroecosystems is limited, if non-existent. Here we investigate the land snail assemblages of olive orchards in Messara plain, Crete, Greece. Land snails were collected from 16 olive orchards. In addition, we performed
Elisavet Georgopoulou +2 more
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