Land snails

Land molluscs are my main group of expertise. I use them to understand the impacts of urbanization, as models in dispersal ecology, and to study the causes and consequences of individual behaviour differences (or “personalities”).

I work mostly with the common land snails Cornu aspersum and Cepaea nemoralis, but have handled 20 other species of land molluscs in the lab.

Cornu aspersum on Cornu aspersum (framed image by Franz Anthony for the Circles of Life project, used with permission)