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Dear Folks,
I have also checked sites for snails after bushfires - we get plenty of
them in Australia. It is a very good way of doing a survey of land snails
(snails over a few mm in size anyway). Snail populations decline
dramatically in areas where bush fires are more frequent - say every five
years or so (usually near urban areas). I was also surprised at the numbers
of snails found.
Cheers,
Robert
>For what it is worth, I have had several opportunities to collect landsnails
>after forest fires; a collecting technique suggested to me by a USDA Forest
>Service biologist.
snip, snip...
>I have several lots of specimens collected from such localities. Has anyone
>else ever collected in this manner?
>
>Doug Shelton
>Alabama Malacological Research Center
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