Nice. How does that happen? Shouldnt the metal come back to the soil after the animal dies?
Isopods
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FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
P. pruinosus could be defined as a macroconcentrator of Cd, Zn, and Cu (BAF > 2) and as a deconcentrator of Pb (BAF < 1).
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.
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.
FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
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?
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 months ago
So Do not eat too many if starving
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
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Hupf@feddit.de 8 months ago
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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ah, so the isopods are why they sold out. They were much cooler when they were underground.
Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not often that you see doctors become comic strip artists
LesDeuxBonsYeux@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Looks more like glam to me
casmael@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s in the terms and conditions of
^actual band removed from soil may vary from style show on box. Isopod™️ reserves the right to substitute the band removed from the soil with a different band of similar size and weight. Colour may vary.^
can@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
god dammit
casmael@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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