Nutrition in terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea): An evolutionary-ecological approach

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 455-493

  Zimmer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecophysiology; Evolutionary ecology; Isopoda; Nutrition; Oniscidea; Terrestrialization; Woodlice

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC FAUNA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; ISOPODA; NUTRITION; OSMOREGULATION; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; DIGESTION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FECES; ISOPODA; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; ONISCIDAE; ONISCIDEA;

EID: 0036859212     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793102005912     Document Type: Review

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