historical times is unknown and the few terrestrial species living there today, from the common isopods to the ubiquitous hawks, were introduced either on purpose (hawks from Chile for rodent control; see Klemmer and Zizka, 1993) or by accident (cosmopolitan isopod species brought in on plants)...
Plastic has become indispensable for human life. When plastic debris is discarded into waterways, these items can interact with organisms. Of particular concern are microscopic plastic particles (microplastics) which are subject to ingestion by several t
Copepods arevery small crustaceans, about 1 millimeter in length. ... Ostracods are a type of bivalve crustacean that move by rapidly beating their antennae. They range from about 0.5 – 3.0 mm, depending on the species. Are isopods Holoplankton? Copepods, cladocerans, and occasionally mysids...
There, torch corals can be found among otherlarge-polyp stony corals(LPS) and small-polyp stony corals (SPS). However, torch corals have long sweeper tentacles that are used for catching food and stinging nearby corals and sessile animals that might try to steal resources. Because of this, t...
Three types of invertebrate samples were collected: dragonfly nymphs (Anisoptera, as a bioindicator), mixed benthic invertebrate composites, and riparian spiders. Dragonfly nymphs were collected using a D-net while mixed benthic invertebrates (predominantly isopods, amphipods, chironomids, and trichopter...
They are also one of the dominant types of natural areas in cities ‒ by one estimate, remnant forests account for 68% of parkland area across the most populous cities in the USA (Pregitzer et al. 2021). There is a large amount of variation in the structure and species composition of...