I have created these snail strips to attract more passer-by's at poster sessions of various conferences during the last couple of years. Now I collected those for the pleasure of interested readers.
Fight for the ravine This conversation is between the Spanish slug ( Arion lusitanicus), a pest spreading aggressively in Central Europe, and the endemic Banat snail ( Drobacia banatica). References: - Sólymos, P. (2008):
Quantitative biogeographic characterization of Hungary based on the
distribution data of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda): a case of
nestedness of species ranges with extensive overlap of biotic elements.
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 54: 289-287.
- Sólymos, P. (2004): Magyarország
szárazföldi Mollusca-faunájának ritkaságon alapuló értékelése és
alkalmazási lehetőségei [The assessment of the Hungarian land molluscs
based on their rarity, and its applications]. Természetvédelmi
Közlemények, 11: 349-358.
The small Vertiginid snail asks his (her?) big Helicid snail brother, "Hey Big Boy! Wanna have a race?", when the large edible snail replies, "Be clever my Little Friend, unless you'll be disqualify due to passive dispersal!"This strip emphasizes the two modes of dispersal in land snails: the active (primarily among large bodied species) and the passive (primarily among small bodied taxa, via aerial dispersal or rafting) dispersal. References: - Sólymos, P.
(2006): Szárazföldi csigák ritkaságával összefüggő tényezők vizsgálata.
7. Magyar Ökológus Kongresszus, Előadások és poszterek összefoglalói,
p. 191. [oral presentation]
The crawling Clausiliid species asks, "Are you also about to go extinct?", and the Helicid mate replies, "I am not from that family!"This strip highlights the phlylogenetic non independence of extinction rates: some are more prone to extinction just because of their shared ancestry, while others have greater chances of escaping the recent wave of extinction. The conversation roots in the epic movie "Indul a bakterház", where Bendegúz Regős says "Nem olyan családból származom én". References: - Sólymos, P.
(2005): Leszármazási viszonyok természetvédelmi jelentősége szárazföldi
csigák példáján bemutatva. In: Lengyel, Sz., Sólymos, P. & Klein,
Á. (eds.): A III. Magyar Természetvédelmi Biológiai Konferencia Program
és Absztrakt kötete, Eger, p. 200. [poster presentation]
Blue Slug in trouble This picture does not need to be translated, since it was created for the ECCB 2006. Unlike blue oysters, the blue slugs ( Bielzia coerulans) are real, and it is a marvelous Carpathian endemic species. But than, what is he (she?) doing at the Hortobagy Puszta? (Note: the Hortobagy Puszta is a unique landscape mosaic, mainly composed of sodic grasslands and wetlands, and is a World Heritage site.) References: - Sólymos, P. (2008):
Quantitative biogeographic characterization of Hungary based on the
distribution data of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda): a case of
nestedness of species ranges with extensive overlap of biotic elements.
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 54: 289-287.
Collecting land snails "I haven't found a single snail alive. What's more, it's just started to rain..."This figure appeared at the Hungarian Congress of Ecology, 2009, Szeged, where we presented an approach to use the "useless" empty shells to improve species-habitat models. References: - Kemencei, Z., Sólymos, P., Páll-Gergely, B., Farkas, R., Vilisics, F.
& Hornung, E. (2009): Csigafajok élő egyedszámának modellezése üres
héjak alapján [Improved modeling of live abundances of land snails by using empty shells]. 8. Magyar Ökológus Kongresszus, Előadások
és poszterek összefoglalói, Szeged, Hungary, August 26-28, 2009, p. 106.
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