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Observations on web-invasion by the jumping spider Thyene imperialis in Israel (Araneae: Salticidae) [PDF]

, 2012
Observations on Thyene imperialis (Rossi, 1846) in Israel, Negev desert, invading a web of Cyclosa deserticola Levy, 1998 are reported. The female leapt into the orb-web to catch Cyclosa spiders.
Jäger, Peter, J\ue4ger, Peter,
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In the Bag: Leaf Litter‐Filled Artificial Cover Objects Reveal Urban Habitat Associations for Predatory Invertebrates (Onychophora: Peripitoides novaezealandiae and Araneae: Uliodon spp.)

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2026.
Velvet worms and vagrant spiders are two predatory invertebrate taxa that can occupy urban forests, but understanding their habitat associations in these environments has been hampered by a lack of effective monitoring methods. We assessed how forest age and type affected the numbers of velvet worms and vagrant spiders detected within leaf litter ...
Dan Moskovitz, Ruben Mita, Joanna K. Carpenter, James Arbuckle, Stephen Hartley   +4 more
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Revalidation of Pterinopelma Pocock 1901 with description of a new species and the female of Pterinopelma vitiosum (Keyserling 1891) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) [PDF]

, 2011
Open-access article originally without DOI from Zootaxa; minted April 2015 Source: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02814p018.pdf Uploaded by ...
Bertani, Rogerio, Nagahama, Roberto Hiroaki, Fukushima, Caroline Sayuri   +2 more
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Temperate forest heterogeneity decreases local and landscape‐scale spider diversity through habitat filtering despite increasing species turnover

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 9, Page 1793-1806, September 2026.
In a large‐scale German forest experiment, habitat heterogeneity increased spider turnover but reduced local alpha diversity through habitat filtering. Together, these effects lowered landscape‐scale spider diversity. As such, the study shows whether environmental heterogeneity increases or decreases biodiversity depends on the balance between habitat ...
Jean‐Léonard Stör, Julia Rothacher, Marc W. Cadotte, Anne Chao, Maike Huszarik, Michael Junginger, Lisa Köstler‐Albert, Oliver Mitesser, Akira S. Mori, Clara Wild, Jörg Müller   +10 more
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Non‐Invasive Body Mass Estimation in the Ladybird Spider, Eresus kollari, Using Multi‐View Morphometrics and Machine Learning

Entomological Research, Volume 56, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Body mass is widely used as an indicator of physiological condition and ecological fitness in spiders. However, directly measuring the mass of small, live individuals remains technically challenging. In this study, we evaluated a non‐invasive approach for predicting body mass in Eresus kollari using machine learning‐based (ML) models derived ...
Jin Hyeok Choi, Hyung Wook Kwon, Kil Won Kim   +2 more
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Land Use Mediates Long‐Term Arthropod Functional Change

Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 9, September 2026.
Using > 1.3 million carabid and spider records, we reveal contrasting long‐term trajectories of arthropod functional diversity across land‐use types in Switzerland. Functional richness increased in forests and grasslands but declined sharply in croplands, where communities became functionally homogenised and lost key, often unique, trait combinations ...
Carlos Martínez‐Núñez, Martin M. Gossner, Felix Neff, Marco Moretti, Martin K. Obrist, Felix Herzog, Kurt Bollmann, Peter Duelli, Eva Knop, Henryk Luka, Matthias Albrecht   +10 more
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First record of Aulonia kratochvili (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Europe [PDF]

, 2013
The fauna of wolf spiders is rather well-known in certain parts of the Balkan Peninsula, in others less so. While extensive collecting has been undertaken in Bulgaria (summarized in DEL TSHEV & BLAGOEV 1995), other parts, like Greece, still await to be ...
Kronestedt, Torbjörn
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Fish Mass Mortality Events Trigger Energy Transfer via Invertebrate‐Mediated Pathways at the Aquatic–Terrestrial Interface

Freshwater Biology, Volume 71, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Animal mass mortality events are increasing under global change, generating large and unpredictable pulses of carrion that can influence ecosystem functioning. Although scavenger dynamics at individual carcasses are relatively well understood, little is known about how terrestrial vertebrate and invertebrate assemblages exploit large carrion ...
Tatiana Pessano‐Serrat, Esther Sebastián‐González, José Antonio Sánchez‐Zapata, Adrian Orihuela‐Torres   +3 more
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The Response of Terrestrial Arthropods to Natural and Anthropogenically Altered Disturbance and Stress Regimes in Riparian Zones: A Systematic Review

Freshwater Biology, Volume 71, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Riparian zones are vital for biodiversity and are increasingly threatened by natural and human‐induced factors that disrupt their structure and function. Arthropods, as dominant terrestrial organisms in these habitats, are essential for ecosystem services, influencing connectivity between terrestrial and aquatic webs, and are sensitive ...
Asande Hadebe, Rob Slotow, Sindiso Nkuna, T. Caswell Munyai   +3 more
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First record of Hypsocephalus dahli in Switzerland with a review of its distribution, ecology and taxonomy (Araneae, Linyphiidae) [PDF]

, 2010
The spider species Hypsocephalus dahli (Lessert, 1909) is recorded for the first time in Switzerland from museum material collected in 1974. The information given in the literature and unpublished data on this rare species are summarised including an ...
Frick, Holger
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