Browsing by Author "Karagkouni, Maria"

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      Biogeography of body size in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea) 

      Karagkouni, Maria; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Feldman, A.; Meiri, S. (2016)
      This study tries to unveil the contribution of climatic shift in shaping the extreme body size diversity in terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea). Trying to explain size variation at an interspecific level, we test five hypotheses: ...
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      The island rule is not valid in terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea) 

      Karagkouni, Maria; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Meiri, S. (2017)
      The island rule posits that small animals grow larger on islands, whereas large-bodied ones are expected to dwarf, but remains largely unexplored in invertebrates. We tested the rule at an inter-specific level on terrestrial ...