Within-group behavioral variation promotes biased task performance and the emergence of a defensive caste in a social spider. [PDF]
Behav Ecol Sociobiol, 2011 The social spider Anelosimus studiosus exhibits a behavioral polymorphism where colony members express either a passive, tolerant behavioral tendency (social) or an aggressive, intolerant behavioral tendency (asocial).
Pruitt JN, Riechert SE.
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Evaluation of the design effects of different agropastoral systems on the diversity and density of spiders [PDF]
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2017 Sustainable agro-ecological design is challenging when the goal is self-regulation of the system. The objective of this study was to evaluate if the agropastoral design system affects the spider community, as spiders are the main predators in these ...
Melina S. Almada +2 more
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La araneofauna (Araneae) reciente y fósil de Chiapas, México
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2009 Se presenta una lista de las especies actuales y fósiles de arañas (Araneae) registradas para Chiapas. Hasta el momento se registran 464 especies actuales, distribuidas en 281 géneros y 56 familias.
Miguel Ángel García-Villafuerte
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Diversidade e composição da araneofauna do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil [PDF]
Iheringia: Série Zoologia, 2017 RESUMO Nós compilamos uma lista de espécies de aranhas registradas no Mato Grosso do Sul (Brasil) a partir da literatura taxonômica e de inventários não publicados. A lista inclui 228 espécies em 134 gêneros e 32 famílias.
Josué Raizer +3 more
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Preliminary checklist of spiders (Araneae) from Coiba National Park, Panama [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalCoiba National Park is an offshore region on the Pacific side of Panama, which hosts several endemic species of animals and plants. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
Daniel Murcia-Moreno, Dumas Gálvez
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Araneofauna De La Reserva Forestal Protectora Serranía De Coraza. Sucre-Colombia
Revista Colombiana de Ciencia Animal Recia, 2013 Se registra la araneofauna en una localidad de la Reserva Forestal Protectora Serranía de Coraza, en los Montes de María, Sucre, correspondiente a un bosque seco tropical.
Alejandro Peñaloza Villadiego +3 more
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Semina: Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, 2008 Arachnids make up an exclusive predator group. Eating habit makes the arthropods to move around in search for hunting or building traps with silk threads.
Lizandra Lucy Catelli +4 more
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A review of cave spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Crimean Mountains, with descriptions of two new species [PDF]
ZooKeysBased on a critical review of the literature and study of the authors’ own collections, a survey of cave spiders of the Crimean Mountains has been conducted, resulting in 20 reliable species records in eight families. Nine species have been discovered in
Anton A. Nadolny, Ilya S. Turbanov
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The spider fauna from Uruguay River islands: understanding its role in a biological corridor. [PDF]
Biodivers Data J, 2018 Biological corridors are connections which link habitats in a regional scale, allowing the gene flow between populations. The Uruguay River comprises riverside and insular riparian forests along subtropical to temperate zones passing through different ...
Laborda Á +4 more
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Faunistic Study on Spiders (Araneae) in the Špraněk National Nature Reserve with Suggestion to Conservation Management of the Locality [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2017 Spiders (Araneae) are a classic indicator taxon for evaluating the health of natural environments. Here, spiders from the forest ecosystems in Špraněk National Nature Reserve (Olomoucký Region) were investigated.
Ondřej Košulič
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