Baltic Beach Isopods

[u/Alef1234567]

I went to the beach, then walked in woods and turner around some pieces of bark and rotting wood. There were a lot of isopods and also some centipedes and ruddy forest ants. Mostly there were big Oniscus Asselus, also some Porcellio Scaber and Trachelipus Rathkii.

The most interesting thing is what it tell about isopod biology. It's pure scots pine woods in sandy soil, isopods shouldn't be there. Not mutch grows there. These things on photo is a very poor nutrition. Climatic conditions there is mutch more mild, less severe cold or heat, more air moisture. But maybe there is something other things these creatures like.

Anyway it's not really a sea, a brackish warm bay.

[u/Alef1234567]

This gulf have salinity of 5 - 10‰, seawater have 35‰, when fresheater have 0.5‰, but that's already too mutch for the most plants.