Food sources of selected terrestrial cave arthropods

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F15%3A10312211" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/15:10312211 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/15:00448174

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.16.8609" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.16.8609</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.16.8609" target="_blank" >10.3897/subtbiol.16.8609</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Food sources of selected terrestrial cave arthropods

Original language description

As caves represent an extreme biotope with limited food sources, one might expect cave animal communities to exhibit low feeding specialization and to consume generally whatever organic matter is available. To test this hypothesis, we studied the feedinghabits of several arthropod species in Slovakian and Romanian caves. A microanatomical approach utilizing histological methods was selected for this study. While saprophagous animals dominated, our study revealed variability within this nutritional group. Preferences ranged from fungal propagules (for the millipede Trachysphaera costata) to bacteria on bat guano (for the oribatid mite Pantelozetes cavaticus) and to cyanobacteria (for the microwhip scorpion Eukoenenia spelaea). The terrestrial isopod Mesoniscus graniger consumed a mixture of organic and inorganic substrates with plant material in various caves. These findings confirm an adaptability and phenoplasticity and, hence, a variability of characteristics developing under the pr

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA526%2F07%2F0393" target="_blank" >GA526/07/0393: Relation of the structure of the soil saprophagous mite community (Acari: Oribatida, Acaridida) and its nutritional biology to the soil rating unit</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Subterranean Biology

ISSN

1768-1448

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

37-46

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84942245605