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- Title
Species compositions of terrestrial isopods in public parks of a commuter town in Japan.
- Authors
Takahiro Nasu; Kana Kitagawa; Shigenori Karasawa
- Abstract
The species compositions of terrestrial isopod assemblages in 150 public parks in a commuter town in Japan were investigated. Eleven species of terrestrial isopods were present, of which seven were considered native or oriental species, and four were exotic species originally distributed in the Mediterranean and European regions. An exotic species Armadillidium vulgare Latreille, 1804 was found in all parks. Logistic model analysis indicated that the surrounding land use affected the distributions of three native species, Burmoniscus kathmandius (Schmalfuss, 1983), Ligidium koreanum Flasarova, 1972, and Mongoloniscus koreanus Verhoeff, 1930, indicating that landscape properties are important factors that limit the distributions of terrestrial isopods. The present study also showed that the public parks surrounded by forests or semi-natural environments in a commuter town provide habitats for native terrestrial isopods.
- Subjects
ISOPODA; INTRODUCED species; ARMADILLIDIUM vulgare; LOGISTIC model (Demography); LAND use; HABITATS
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2018, Issue 801, p389
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.801.21875