Ants as shell collectors: notes on land snail shells found around ant nests
We investigated the shell collecting activities of harvester ants (Messor spp.) in semi-arid grasslands and shrubs in Turkey. We found eleven species of snails in the area, two of them were not collected by ants. Eight – mainly small sized – snail species were found on ant nests in a habitat charact...
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Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Malacologica Bohemoslovaca |
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| Online Access: | http://mollusca.sav.sk/pdf/8/8.Pall-Gergely.pdf |