TY - JOUR
T1 - Land snail populations in abandoned water cisterns in Israel
T2 - A model system of artificial niche colonization
AU - Kolodny, Oren
AU - Naaman, Israel
PY - 2016/8
Y1 - 2016/8
N2 - Many untended water cisterns which had been in use until 68 years ago may be found throughout Israel. These cisterns constitute a unique ecological niche for a variety of organisms, providing a prime opportunity to explore the colonization of an artificial, little-studied ecological niche, over long periods of time. We actualized this approach by conducting a land snail survey in ten sites, and found colonization of cisterns by troglophilic species in six of them. We report for the first time the finding of live specimens of Calaxis hierosolymarum (Roth, 1855) in Israel, demonstrating the rare access to underground cavities provided by this study system.
AB - Many untended water cisterns which had been in use until 68 years ago may be found throughout Israel. These cisterns constitute a unique ecological niche for a variety of organisms, providing a prime opportunity to explore the colonization of an artificial, little-studied ecological niche, over long periods of time. We actualized this approach by conducting a land snail survey in ten sites, and found colonization of cisterns by troglophilic species in six of them. We report for the first time the finding of live specimens of Calaxis hierosolymarum (Roth, 1855) in Israel, demonstrating the rare access to underground cavities provided by this study system.
KW - Artificial niches
KW - Colonization
KW - Land snails
KW - Troglophilic land snails
KW - Water cisterns
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AN - SCOPUS:84989182962
SN - 0022-0019
VL - 42
SP - 233
EP - 237
JO - Journal of Conchology
JF - Journal of Conchology
IS - 4
ER -