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Impacts of Climate Change on the Potential Habitat Suitability of the Apple Snails Pomacea canaliculata and Pomacea maculata in East Asia
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- 1. College of plant protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China. *Correspondence: E-mail: yzdu@yzu.edu.cn (Du) & College of bioscience and biotechnology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
- 2. Plant Protection and Quarantine Station of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210029, China. E-mail: 289942327@qq.com (Xie)
- 3. Pukou Agricultural Technology Extension Center of Nanjing City, Nanjing, 211800, China. E-mail: 44073540@qq.com (Wu)
- 4. Plant Protection and Quarantine Station of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, 210036, China. E-mail: 261719177@qq.com (Hu)
- 5. College of plant protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China. *Correspondence: E-mail: yzdu@yzu.edu.cn (Du)
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Wei, Ran, Xie, Hong-Fang, Wu, Cheng-Dong, Hu, Jie, Du, Yu-Zhou (2025): Impacts of Climate Change on the Potential Habitat Suitability of the Apple Snails Pomacea canaliculata and Pomacea maculata in East Asia. Zoological Studies 64 (56): 1-14, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2025.64-56
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