Balancing nutritional requirements for copper in the common woodlouse, Porcellio scaber (Isopoda: Oniscidea)

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-11

  Weißenburg, Melanie ^a   Zimmer, Martin ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Consumption; Copper contamination; Digestion; Heavy metals; Preference

Indexed keywords

ISOPODA; MICROBIOTA; ONISCIDEA; PORCELLIO; PORCELLIO SCABER;

EID: 0037403935     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(03)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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