The influence of the ecological characteristics of phytocoenoses on the percentage proportions of zoogeographical elements in the malacocoenoses of land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda terrestria)
✍ Scribed by Štamol, V.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 716 KB
- Volume
- 109
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-5052
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✦ Synopsis
The influence of 11 forest phytocoenoses in a single area (the Medvednica Mountain in north-western Croatia) on the composition of the zoogeographical elements of the land malacofauna was analysed. It was established that malacocoenoses in different plant associations of the same phytogeographical and zoogeographical area have different compositions in respect to the zoogeographical elements of the land snail fauna. Zoogeographical elements located on borders of the range display the widest divergences in their percentage representation in the malacocoenoses of the forest phytocoenoses of a single area. This is due to varying ecological conditions in the phytocoenoses under investigation.