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CAJG 2018: Recent Advances in Geo-Environmental Engineering, Geomechanics and Geotechnics, and Geohazards pp 29–32Cite as

Behavioural Responses of Armadillidium Granulatum (Crustacea, Oniscidea) to Zinc Contaminated Soil

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Avoidance and locomotor behaviours of Armadillidium granulatum Brandt, 1833 collected from sebkha El Ouafi were studied. Avoidance test was conducted in individuals exposed to zinc contaminated soils. Globally, the animals did not show an avoidance behaviour after 48 h of exposure. The determined concentration effect of this metal was equal to 1043 mg/L. The locomotor activity rhythm was studied in the control animals as well as those exposed to Zn contaminated soils. The results revealed the existence of nocturnal behaviour whatever the experimental conditions. Furthermore, the Periodogram analysis showed the existence of ultradian and circadian periods. This latter was longer for contaminated specimens than the control ones under entraining conditions as well as under constant darkness. In addition, exposed animals showed the most important activity time whatever the regimen imposed and were characterized by a phase advance contrary to the control animals which showed a phase delay.

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  1. National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies, Salammbô, Tunisia

    Raja Jelassi

  2. Tunis El Manar University, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Research Unit of Bio-Ecology and Evolutionary Systematics, El Manar II, Tunis, Tunisia

    Raja Jelassi, Wafa Hammami, Chedliya Ghemari & Karima Nasri-Ammar

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  1. Sfax National School of Engineering, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Amjad Kallel

  2. Kütahya Dumlupınar University, Kütahya, Turkey

    Zeynal Abiddin Erguler

  3. China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

    Zhen-Dong Cui

  4. The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

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  5. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, WA, Australia

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  6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Pinnaduwa Kulatilake

  7. Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia

    Sanjay Kumar Shukla

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Jelassi, R., Hammami, W., Ghemari, C., Nasri-Ammar, K. (2019). Behavioural Responses of Armadillidium Granulatum (Crustacea, Oniscidea) to Zinc Contaminated Soil. In: Kallel, A., et al. Recent Advances in Geo-Environmental Engineering, Geomechanics and Geotechnics, and Geohazards. CAJG 2018. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01665-4_7

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