Isopods in a Changing World

Since the first Symposium on the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods in London, UK (1983), scientists have been meeting every three years to discuss their latest findings on all aspects of terrestrial isopod biology. The 10th symposium, held in Budapest, Hungary in 2017 (http://bio.univet.hu/istib2017/main.html) brought together over 70 participants from 23 countries representing Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Near East. The meeting was organised by the Department of Ecology (University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest) and by the Hungarian Biological Society with support from the Hungarian Ecological Society, the Hungarian Natural History Museum, the Budapest Zoo and Pensoft Publishers. Diverse topics at many spatio-temporal scales were presented, all under the umbrella of our beloved crustaceans: woodlice, slaters, pill bugs, sow-bugs, roly-poly-s, landpissebedden, Asseln, porcellini di terra, ászka, pincebogár, etc. The 30 oral presentations, seven of which were review type invited lectures, and 45 lightning talks connecting to posters, covered research on classical and new fields such as taxonomy, biogeography, molecural biology, agroecosystems, sustainable land use, ecosystem services, climate change, human influence, urbanization, structure, and function. Key words given for the presentations included history, phylogeny, taxonomy (new species), biodiversity, species distribution, ecological biogeography, subterranean occurence, life history, trait approach, habitat fragmentation, parasites, predation, pests, phenology, fluctuating asymmetry, activity, feeding, genetics, ecotoxicology, bioaccumulation, heavy metals, morphology, ultrastructure, physiology, hormones, development, microbiota, symbionts and others.