Guide to the study of animal ecology

by Charles C. Adams

Lists the fauna of the brackish waters of the lower Elbe River, discusses their relation to the environment (salinity, etc.) and gives quantitative determinations of its frequency per square meter, as determined by digging at low tide.

Meyer, H. A., and Möbius, K.

1865. Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Bd. I. Leipzig.

Not seen by writer.

Locard, A.

1881. De L’Habitat des Mollusques. pp. 88-128. Études sur les Variations Malacologiques d’après la Faune Vivante et Fossile de la Partie Centrale du Bassin du Rhone. Tome II, Paris et Lyon.

This is the most detailed study and classification of the habitats of mollusks of land and fresh-water which the writer has seen. It seems to be little known to students. The volume contains many ecological observations. The classification of habitats is often very artificial. See Von Marten’s comment (Zoöl. Record for 1881, Vol. XVIII, p. 18, Moll.), which refers to English and German works along similar lines, but these have not been found by the writer.

Fig. 6.—Remnant of the (original) prairie animal habitat in central Illinois. Loxa, Illinois. These areas are becoming extinct rapidly. Photo. by T. L. Hankinson.

King, L. A. L., and Russell, E. S.