Predictors of shell size in long-lived lake gastropods.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To investigate shell size variation among gastropod faunas of fossil and recent long-lived European lakes and discuss potential underlying processes.

Location

Twenty-three long-lived lakes of the Miocene to Recent of Europe.

Methods

Based on a dataset of 1412 species of both fossil and extant lacustrine gastropods, we assessed differences in shell size in terms of characteristics of the faunas (species richness, degree of endemism, differences in family composition) and the lakes (surface area, latitude and longitude of lake centroid, distance to closest neighbouring lake) using multiple and linear regression models. Because of a strong species-area relationship, we used resampling to determine whether any observed correlation is driven by that relationship.

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SUBMITTER: Neubauer TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5042061 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature