THE FIRST BLUSH OF TASTING: PORCELLIO SCABER ISOPOD AND ENCHYTRAEUS ALBIDUS ENCHYTRAEID PREFER THE LEAF LITTER OF INVASIVE OVER NATIVE PLANT SPECIES

The first blush of tasting: Porcellio scaber isopod and Enchytraeus albidus enchytraeid prefer the leaf litter of invasive over native plant species

The establishment of invasive plants is a very serious threat from an ecological point of view, through decreasing biodiversity and a changing ecosystem, which affect decomposition processes.We carried out no-choice feeding experiments with Porcellio scaber and Enchytraeus albidus individuals.Three different plant species (Acer platanoides as contr

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Limpet (Scutellastra cochlear) Recovered From Some Estuaries in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa Act as Reservoirs of Pathogenic Vibrio Species

Limpet (Scutellastra cochlear) serves as seafood recipe and an important member of the aquatic food chain.It is an abundant mollusc in some aquatic environment in South Africa.In this study, we investigated the potential of the molluscs harvested from the Buffalo, Swartkops, and Kowie estuaries in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa to serve as

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Functional Connectivity Density with Frequency-Dependent Changes in Patients with Diffuse Axonal Injury: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Guojin Xia,1,2 Zhenzhen Hu,3 Fuqing Zhou,1,2 Wenfeng Duan,1,2 Min Wang,1,2 Honghan Gong,1,2 Yulin He,1,2 Yanxing Guan4 1Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of MEN KNIT LONG PANTS China; 2Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Jiangxi, People’s Republic o

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