For all its scope, even the census won't be able to describe each species
of isopod or polychaete that squirms in the deep - sea mud.
At 40 stations in the Southern Ocean, dragging a sled with a net through more than three acres of mud, Brandt found 674 species
of isopod.
Not exact matches
He has also found two
isopod species, popularly known as «roly - polys,» and one species
of book louse.
Her specialty is
isopods, segmented crustaceans that thrive in the deepest stretches
of the ocean.
He handed the specimen off to world
isopod experts Dr. Regina Wetzer, Associate Curator and Director
of the Marine Biodiversity Center, and Adam Wall, Assistant Collections Manager for Crustacea at NHM.
In the new research on salt alternatives — the first study to ever compare the effects
of road salt alternatives and additives on aquatic ecosystems — researchers outfitted 64 mesocosms with many
of the important players in an aquatic food web including, algae, zooplankton, amphipods,
isopods, and snails.
Another amazing case, and one difficult to explain in terms
of its origin, is that
of a small parasitic
isopod around Taiwan which infects some fresh - water fish.
Adaptive latitudinal shifts in the thermal physiology
of a terrestrial
isopod.
From the producers
of the Paranormal Activity franchise, the film is the next installment in their series following Insidious, and «chronicles an unprecedented biological disaster unleashed from the waters
of the Chesapeake Bay - an
isopod parasite, carrying a horrific untreatable disease, that jumps from fish to human hosts.
The main feeding habitat
of the western Pacific subpopulation is the shallow (5 — 15 m (16 — 49 ft) depth) shelf off northeastern Sakhalin Island, particularly off the southern portion
of Piltun Lagoon, where the main prey species appear to be amphipods and
isopods.
While the
isopod, a kind
of louse, has been known to exist for a while now, discoveries
of live specimens are rare.
The BBC reports that «Fishermen near the Minquiers - islands under the jurisdiction
of Jersey - found the
isopod, a type
of louse, inside a weaver fish.»
Wood decomposition rates also slowed; apparently,
isopods can help counteract the effects
of rising temperatures on the carbon stored in the world's forest soils.
But in soil samples with both cords and
isopods, the team found, the mass
of fungus matched that
of control samples in which there were neither cords nor
isopods.
Directed by Barry Levinson and produced by Jason Blum and Oren Peli
of Paranormal Activity fame, the eco-thriller takes on the real - life, ever - awful
isopod, shown below.
In the cautionary tale, massive amounts
of steroid - rich chicken waste has been dumped into the water, causing the leech - like
isopods to have mutated and move on from a taste for fish tongues to a taste for... human flesh.