Abstract:-Samples of adult Aplexa hypnorum were experimentally introduced into periodically dried ditches colonized by Galba truncatula or Omphiscola glabra to monitor the distribution and density of these snail species from 2002 to 2008, and to compare these values with those noted in control sites only frequented by either lymnaeid. The introduction of A. hypnorum into each ditch was followed by the progressive colonization of the entire habitat by the physid and progressive reduction of the portion occupied by the l… Show more
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