Supplementary food in the diet of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber latr. (isopoda: Oniscidea)

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 413-421

  Szlavecz, Katalin ^a,b   Maiorana, Virginia C ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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