Much of what we know about speciation comes from detailed studies of well‐known model
systems. Although there have been several important syntheses on speciation, few (if any) …

Over 95% of all metazoan (animal) species comprise the “invertebrates,” but very few
genomes from these organisms have been sequenced. We have, therefore, formed a …

The vast diversity of land snail forms is insufficiently understood even in seemingly familiar
taxa. This holds for Helix Linnaeus, 1758, a genus with several common edible species …

Land snails are one of the most diverse groups of terrestrial animals and are commonly
used as model organisms in ecology, biogeography and conservation biology. Despite …

We determined microhabitat associations for 39 land snail species based on multimodel
inference and generalized linear mixed models using a comprehensive and micro-scale …

Aim Morphological and taxonomic diversity are intuitive measures of biological diversity.
Previous studies have shown discordance between these measures at large spatial and …

Aim We show how macroecological patterns at different phylogenetic scales below the
species level may aid the identification of the predominant process controlling biological …

The land snail faunas of 26 forest sites and two open rocky sites in the Crimean Mountains
were sampled in 2011. Of the 40 species found within the forests (about half the known …

While varying greatly in size, European clausiliids have a remarkably consistent and
characteristic shell form that distinguishes them from all other land snails in the region. They …

While central and northern European land-mollusc forest communities have received
considerable research effort, southern Europe has enjoyed much less attention. Despite the …