Forty New Faunistic Records of Spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae) for the Republic of Kosovo [PDF]
AnimalsThis study presents new faunistic records of spiders (Araneae) from Kosovo. A total of 40 species are reported for the first time from the country, simultaneously being the first country records for 14 genera, two of which also being newly recorded ...
Donard Geci +6 more
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Dimorphic Jumper Maevia inclemens (Walckenaer 1837) (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae)
EDIS, 2018 Maevia inclemens is a common jumping spider found in vines and ivy along tree lines throughout eastern North America. Learn about this interesting and possibly agriculturally beneficial spider in this 3-page fact sheet written by Laurel Lietzenmayer and
Laurel Lietzenmayer, Lisa Taylor
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A pipeline for assessing the quality of images and metadata from crowd-sourced databases
Peer Community Journal, 2022 Crowd-sourced biodiversity databases provide easy access to data and images for ecological education and research. One concern with using publicly sourced databases; however, is the quality of their images, taxonomic descriptions, and geographical ...
Billotte, Jackie
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Soil macrofauna under different land uses in the Colombian Amazon [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2018 : The objective of this work was to evaluate the soil macrofauna and the bioindicator taxonomic groups associated with different land uses in the Colombian Amazon.
Leonardo Rodríguez Suárez +5 more
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Invertebrates diversity in mountain Neotropical quartzite caves: which factors can influence the composition, richness, and distribution of the cave communities? [PDF]
Subterranean Biology, 2020 Twenty caves located in a high altitudinal quartzite area in Brazil were examined for invertebrate richness and composition and in terms of environmental factors that determine community structure.
Marconi Souza Silva +2 more
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Fire, 2023 In recent decades, forest fires in the Mediterranean basin have been increasing in frequency, intensity, and the area burnt. Simultaneously, insects, a group with extraordinary biodiversity that provides vital ecosystem services such as pollination and ...
Mounia EL Khayati +6 more
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Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Communities of a Sky Island Mountain Range in Southeastern Arizona, USA: Obtaining a Baseline for Assessing the Effects of Climate Change. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The few studies that have addressed past effects of climate change on species distributions have mostly focused on plants due to the rarity of historical faunal baselines.
Wallace M Meyer +12 more
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Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2022 Spiders are the largest order of arachnids with some medically important species. Considering that no comprehensive research has been conducted on the fauna and distribution of Araneae in Bashagard County (Hormozgan Province) so far, the present ...
Amin Hosseinpour +3 more
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Seasonal diversity of spiders in a nature reserve from Espinal in Corrientes, Argentina
Caldasia, 2018 Assessing the spider’s diversity is necessary for the conservation of nature since they play an important role in ecosystems as regulators of insect populations and are good indicators of environmental quality.
María Florencia Nadal +4 more
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ZooKeys, 2015 Reproduction in arthropods is an interesting area of research where intrasexual and intersexual mechanisms have evolved structures with several functions.
Uriel Garcilazo-Cruz +1 more
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