Plant communities preferences of terrestrial crustaceans (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in a protected coastal area of southeastern Sicily (Italy)

Messina, Giuseppina; Montesanto, Giuseppe; Pezzino, Elisa; Sciandrello, Saverio; Caruso, Domenico; Lombardo, Bianca Maria

doi:10.2478/s11756-013-0321-0

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“…Several papers have been published on isopod faunas in European wetlands (Tuf, ; Dias, Sprung & Hassall, ; Garcia, ; Messina et al ., , , ; Antonovic et al ., ). In Tunisia, diversity studies of terrestrial isopod communities inhabiting the supralittoral zone of wetlands effectively started with the work of Jelassi, Khemaissia & Nasri‐Ammar (); Jelassi et al .…”

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Diversity of terrestrial isopods in the northern Tunisian wetlands

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To evaluate the influence of wetland types on the distribution of terrestrial isopods, species richness, relative abundance and diversity indices were studied in the supralittoral zone of 95 wetlands in the north‐western of Tunisian dorsal, belonging to six types: lagoon, hill reservoir, river, dam, lake and sebkha. We tested the following hypothesis: (i) is isopod diversity influenced by wetland types? (ii) is isopod diversity influenced by bioclimatic zones? and (iii) what are the environmental factors influencing isopod distribution? A total of 3255 individuals belonging to twenty species of terrestrial isopods were captured. Species richness differs significantly between wetland types. A highly significant positive relationship between species richness and both humidity and altitudinal gradient was described. The dendrogram of similarities showed a divergence of the lagoons compared to the remaining wetland types.

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Diversity of terrestrial isopods in the northern Tunisian wetlands

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“…Some illustrations made with the method of the present paper, were already published in other articles about terrestrial isopods: figure 1 in Medini-Bouaziz et al (2006); figure 2 in Montesanto et al (2007); figures 2, 3 in Montesanto et al (2008); figures 1–5 in Montesanto et al (2011); figures 1, 2 in Messina et al (2011); figure 1 in Messina et al (2012); figures 6, 7, and 9 in Montesanto et al (2012); figure 1 in Lupetti et al (2013); figures 2, 3 in Montesanto et al (2013); figures 1–6 in Messina et al (2014). Some indications about drawing terrestrial isopods for taxomomic papers are reported in Figure 7, whereas magnifications show the differences of the brush size for different anatomical parts.…”

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A fast GNU method to draw accurate scientific illustrations for taxonomy

Montesanto¹

2015

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Nowadays only digital figures are accepted by the most important journals of taxonomy. These may be produced by scanning conventional drawings, made with high precision technical ink-pens, which normally use capillary cartridge and various line widths. Digital drawing techniques that use vector graphics, have already been described in literature to support scientists in drawing figures and plates for scientific illustrations; these techniques use many different software and hardware devices. The present work gives step-by-step instructions on how to make accurate line drawings with a new procedure that uses bitmap graphics with the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). This method is noteworthy: it is very accurate, producing detailed lines at the highest resolution; the raster lines appear as realistic ink-made drawings; it is faster than the traditional way of making illustrations; everyone can use this simple technique; this method is completely free as it does not use expensive and licensed software and it can be used with different operating systems. The method has been developed drawing figures of terrestrial isopods and some examples are here given.

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“…This species can reproduce several times throughout its life (iteroparous), and its reproductive period varies depending on the geographic area: in France from June with a possible extension until August (Vandel, 1962), in Sicily from May to July (Messina, Montesanto, Pezzino, Caruso, & Lombardo, 2011;Messina, Pezzino, Montesanto, Caruso, & Lombardo, 2012) and in Israel in October (Warburg, 2013). A. officinalis commonly lives on sandy, silty-clayey or rocky substrates, and in environments populated by different plant communities (Messina et al, 2014). In 2015, a possible use of these animals as bioindicators of benzene was also reported (Agodi et al, 2015).…”

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The moult cycle of the terrestrial isopodArmadillo officinalisDuméril, 1816 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)

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Cividini²

2017

Acta Zoologica

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The present work focuses on the moult cycle of Armadillo officinalis. For a 100‐day period, 134 animals were observed and routinely examined with the aim of detecting distinctive morphological characters in the several stages and substages of the moult cycle and of disclosing their duration. Statistical tests and Poisson regression models with robust standard errors were used to investigate differences and relationships between moult and the size and gender of the animals. The appearance of the calcium carbonate deposits on the pereon sternites during the premoult stage was documented in detail, and three main substages were identified. The average duration of the premoult and of the biphasic ecdysis was about 12 and 1.5 days, respectively. This observation period, however, did not allow to establish a determined average duration of the intermoult stage, which was extremely variable. This stage lasted for 2 months or more in most of the cases observed, but about 1‐month‐long intermoult stages were also recorded. No statistically significant association was found between the number of moults and gender and size of the animals.

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Plant communities preferences of terrestrial crustaceans (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in a protected coastal area of southeastern Sicily (Italy)

Cited by 18 publications

References 19 publications

Diversity of terrestrial isopods in the northern Tunisian wetlands

Diversity of terrestrial isopods in the northern Tunisian wetlands

A fast GNU method to draw accurate scientific illustrations for taxonomy

The moult cycle of the terrestrial isopodArmadillo officinalisDuméril, 1816 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)

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