Land snail biodiversity assessment for the Selkirk Mountains Park region in southeastern British Columbia

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In an effort to help the Valhalla Wilderness Society document the land snail biodiversity from areas within and adjacent to the proposed Selkirk Mountain Caribou Park, the authors (an international team of three researchers) spent a total of 19 person-days (August 27–September 3, 2001) in the region surveying 29 sites. This survey work represents the first thorough land snail survey in SE British Columbia across all habitats and elevations. Two different search strategies were used: Nekola and Coles through eye-hand collection for larger shells and litter sampling for smaller taxa, and Horsak primarily through eye-hand collection for shells across the body size spectrum. Approximately an hour was spent at each site. Approximately 500 ml of litter were collected per subsample. Across all three investigators, generally ten times as many individuals were captured as species, a ratio that is advocated by Cameron and Pokryszko (2005) for accurate land snail community documentation. This report presents results of the surveys (overview of fauna, biogeography, species of conservation importance, sites of conservation importance), as well as brief species accounts/descriptions (categorized by family) for each encountered species. Data are also collated from all sites, listed in sampling order.

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CSE-style citation: Nekola J (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM), Coles B (National Museum of Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK), Horsák M (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic). 2012. Land snail biodiversity assessment for the Selkirk Mountains Park region in southeastern British Columbia. Final Report prepared for Valhalla Wilderness Society. 24 p.

Note: the date does not appear on the document, but appears at websites citing the work. I don't see a current location for VWS on the organization's website.

Report is available from VWS (via email), according to a document on the Internet; it is also currently posted at http://sev.lternet.edu/~jnekola/nekola%20pdf/bcreport.pdf