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Antipredatory strategies of terrestrial isopods [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 Terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) represent a widespread group of land Crustacea that have been able to successfully adapt to the terrestrial environment and occupy newly formed ecological niches. During the colonisation of land, they faced numerous challenges, including finding an effective way to avoid their new terrestrial predators.
Ivan Hadrián Tuf, Barbora Ďurajková
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Terrestrial isopods as model organisms in soil ecotoxicology: a review [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 Isopods play an important role in the decomposition of leaf litter and therefore are making a significant contribution to nutrient cycling and soil ecosystem services.
Cornelis A.M. van Gestel +2 more
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A Cost of Reproduction in a Terrestrial Isopod [PDF]
Evolution, 1983 Species that reproduce repeatedly over their lifetimes typically allocate energy to both their reproductive activities and their non-reproductive, somatic activities. Fisher (1930) first posed the evolutionary problem of understanding not merely the physiological mechanism of this energy allocation, but also the ultimate question of how the allocation ...
Michael S, Brody +2 more
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A checklist of isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda) in Slovenia [PDF]
Natura Sloveniae, 2023 Isopods are a diverse peracarid crustacean group with marine, freshwater and terrestrial representatives. Isopod species lists were typically prepared according to different habitats, which was true also for Slovenia. Here, we prepared the first unified overview of isopod species for Slovenia, which is also the first list of marine isopods in the ...
Vittori, Miloš +4 more
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Microorganisms, 2021 The crucial role of microbes in the evolution, development, health, and ecological interactions of multicellular organisms is now widely recognized in the holobiont concept.
Marius Bredon +7 more
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Species conservation profiles of cave-adapted terrestrial isopods from Portugal [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 Terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea) are the most diverse group of troglobionts in caves of continental Portugal. They occur in all karst regions of Portugal, play a major role in decomposition of organic matter in caves and may act as umbrella species for ...
Ana Sofia Reboleira +2 more
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Diversity, 2023 The symbiotic relationship between macroorganisms, such as plants and animals, and the microorganisms in their environment plays a crucial role in shaping their physiology and ecology.
Yehyeon Cha, Seung-Yoon Oh
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Nature, 1961 IN crustaceans the hepatopancreas is the main organ of enzyme production. In isopods this organ consists of two types of cells which differ in size and were first distinguished by Weber1. This author observed in the smaller cells dense clumps of yellowish granules which became the subject of some controversy.
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Evolutionary Applications, 2023 Human activity is a major driver of ecological and evolutionary change in wild populations and can have diverse effects on eukaryotic organisms as well as on environmental and host‐associated microbial communities.
Elvira Lafuente +6 more
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Predation by Terrestrial Isopods
The Florida Entomologist, 1974 Fifty of each sex of two species of terrestrial isopods, Armadillidium vulgare and Porcellio laevis, were each offered 16 live pupae, four each of Drosophilia hydei, D. immigrans, D. pseudoobscura and D. melanogaster, for 24 hr. Both sexes of both predator species fed on all prey species, each predator species taking numbers of prey species in the ...
Edney, E.B., Allen, W., McFarlane, J.
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