Estimation of slug populations
- 1 April 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Applied Biology
- Vol. 53 (2) , 251-258
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7348.1964.tb03799.x
Abstract
SUMMARY: It is impracticable to count slugs per unit area in the field, but both slugs and their eggs are recovered efficiently by soil washing in the laboratory. A less laborious method is described in which slugs (only) are expelled from turves progressively immersed in cold water. This method, used with samples of twelve 12×12×4 in. units of substratum, gives satisfactory estimates for Agriolimax reticulatus and Arion intermedim at population densities above I per sq.ft.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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