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Individual preferences and social interactions determine the aggregation of woodlice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The aggregation of woodlice in dark and moist places is considered an adaptation to land life and most studies are focused on its functionality or on the behavioural mechanisms related to the individual's response to abiotic factors.
Cédric Devigne +2 more
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Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2023 Soil fauna, including terrestrial isopods, millipedes and earthworms, play an important role in the decomposition of litter through the process of shredding it during consumption.
Gabriela Makulec +1 more
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New records of Trachelipus vespertilio (Budde-Lund, 1896) (Isopoda, Oniscidea) with a description of the male [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The existing descriptions of the woodlouse Trachelipus vespertilio are based on a single female collected in Croatia in the nineteenth century. No further information on the occurrence of this species has been reported in published literature and the ...
Miloš Vittori
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Reliance on blue, green, and brown energy channels drives a shift in the trophic position of riparian spiders. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Understanding the mechanisms shaping food chain length (FCL) has long been central to food web ecology. FCL is a key determinant of stability, energy flow efficiency, and biodiversity maintenance, but there is an ongoing debate about its underlying drivers.
Saboret G +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 During development, cells may adjust their size to balance between the tissue metabolic demand and the oxygen and resource supply: Small cells may effectively absorb oxygen and nutrients, but the relatively large area of the plasma membrane requires ...
Andrzej Antoł +7 more
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Nauplius, 2021 The genus Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908 includes 70 species distributed mainly in tropical regions, of which three species have been recorded from Colombia: Trichorhina bermudezae Carpio-Díaz, López-Orozco and Campos-Filho, 2018, Trichorhina ...
Yesenia M. Carpio-Díaz +3 more
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Discovery of Hemilepistus (Hemilepistus) klugii (Brandt, 1833) (Isopoda, Oniscidea) in the Republic of Georgia with an overview of the ecology and biology of the subgenus [PDF]
Caucasiana, 2022 The terrestrial woodlice Hemilepistus (Hemilepistus) klugii (Brandt, 1833) is reported from Georgia for the first time, with a commentary on the species composition of the genus Hemilepistus Budde-Lund, 1879 in the Caucasus. A short review of the ecology
Eka Arsenashvili +4 more
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Nanomaterials, 2021 We compared the changes of selected immune parameters of Porcellio scaber to different stressors. The animals were either fed for two weeks with Au nanoparticles (NPs), CeO2 NPs, or Au ions or body-injected with Au NPs, CeO2 NPs, or lipopolysaccharide ...
Craig Mayall +7 more
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Avoidance behaviour toxicity tests should account for animal gregariousness: a case study on the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 Avoidance behaviour enables woodlice to escape suboptimal environmental conditions and to mitigate harmful effects of pollutants. However, several studies have shown that at least in some woodlice species the tendency to aggregate can lead to suboptimal ...
Primož Zidar, Žiga Fišer
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Total herbivore exclusion alters plant species dominance and trait expression in endangered grassy woodlands. [PDF]
EcologyAbstract Herbivores are important drivers of plant community composition and dominance in grassy ecosystems, yet few studies have attempted to understand how different types of herbivores impact plant dominance and function. This study examined the biomass of dominant grass species and other plant functional groups after 3 years of nested herbivore ...
Chinn N +4 more
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