The Ecology of the Skokie Marsh Area, with Special Reference to the Mollusca

Baker, F.C.

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Title

The Ecology of the Skokie Marsh Area, with Special Reference to the Mollusca

Author(s)

Baker, F.C.

Issue Date

1910

Keyword(s)

• skokie
• marsh ecology
• Mollusca

Abstract

The present paper is an attempt to place on record a minute study of a small area with special reference to its molluscan inhabitants. It is believed that this is one of the first attempts to apply the ecological method, so notably used by the botanists (Cowles, 1901; Jennings, 1909, etc.), to the study of the Mollusca, although Adams (1906) and Ruthven (1904) have included this class of animals in their report of the Ecological Survey of Michigan, and Pilsbry (1905), Elrod (1901-03) and Adams (1900) have made valuable contributions to molluscan ecology. Attempts to study the mollusks of a restricted region from an ecological standpoint are, however, rare, the writer having been unable to find any papers in which these animals were studied purely from this standpoint. It was thought that an exhaustive study of the habitat relations of all the mollusks of a given area might throw some light on their specific distinctions (especially those of the fresh-water pulmonates), and the studies herein detailed seem to warrant the belief that some good results along this line have been accomplished. These are referred to under the head of taxonomy (page 489).

Publisher

Champaign : Illinois Natural History Survey

Series/Report Name or Number

Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin; v. 008, no. 04

Type of Resource

• text
• dataset / spreadsheet

Language

en

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