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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nice. How does that happen? Shouldnt the metal come back to the soil after the animal dies?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

P. pruinosus could be defined as a macroconcentrator of Cd, Zn, and Cu (BAF > 2) and as a deconcentrator of Pb (BAF < 1).

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Since isopods are food source of vertebrate and invertebrate predators, one threat is the transfer and potential accumulation of these contaminants at higher trophic levels. In a regional assessment of the Greater Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan area, Pouyat et al. (2015b) found a positive correlation between lead concentration of soil, isopod body, and blood of American robin (Turdusmigratorius Linnaeus, 1766) nestlings from the same residential yards.

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One way is just by keeping the heavy metals (Hg, Cu, Zn, Cd, etc) in their body. Any heavy metals they uptake will remain in their body, and while they're alive they create more isopods to uptake more metal. But, if they get eaten it can accumulate in other animals or if they die it just returns to the soil. They're also useful as indicators of soil contamination.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there any way in wich those metals are effectively/permanently taken out? Like some chemical bond that an animal produces that makes the metal innactive even after the animal decomposes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

So Do not eat too many if starving

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

is there a dad jokes community?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looks more like glam to me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It’s in the terms and conditions

^actual band removed from soil may vary from style shown on box. Isopodℒ️ reserves the right to substitute the band removed from the soil with a different band of similar size and weight. Colour may vary.^

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Ah, so the isopods are why they sold out. They were much cooler when they were underground.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

It's not often that you see doctors become comic strip artists