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Spider diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in Atlantic Forest areas at Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: There has never been any published work about the diversity of spiders in the city of Rio de Janeiro using analytical tools to measure diversity.
Baptista, Renner L. C. +2 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Some prey species have evolved background matching, that is they resemble their surrounding environment in terms of colour and/or brightness. When prey populations inhabit patchy environments, they may even have evolved specialised phenotypes: each phenotype matching a specific subset of patches.
Lilian Cabon, Holger Schielzeth
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Sampling spider mites in almonds
California Agriculture, 1984 Not available – first paragraph follows: Six species of spider mites are associated with almond trees in California's Central Valley. The lack of economical and reliable sampling techniques has hampered not only research on these mites but also the ...
F Zalom +4 more
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Venomous Spiders of the Southeastern US: An Unexpected Threat
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2015 Background: Environmental health specialists recommend that residents of the Southeastern US, including Georgia, have the ability to identify the three venomous spiders indigenous to this area.
Alex Collins, Oreta Samples
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Area‐restricted search under realistic constraints
Oikos, EarlyView.Abstract Area‐restricted search (ARS) is one of the most influential and widely used concepts in foraging theory, capturing a simple rule by which animals intensify local search following a resource encounter. Because ARS performs well in many spatially structured environments, it serves as a basic model for interpreting movement patterns across taxa ...
Inon Scharf, Arik Dorfman
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First record of spider Tegenaria ferruginea (Panzer, 1804) from Belarus with notes on overwintering [PDF]
, 2019 First record of the spider Tegenaria ferruginea (Panzer, 1804) from Belarus, along with taxonomic diagnosis and photographs are presented. Contrary to the expectations, males and females were found during overwintering in the silken sac in the fort of ...
Tsiareshyna, Maria
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The continuing significance of chiral agrochemicals
Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 1697-1716, April 2025.In the time frame 2018–2023, around 43% of the 35 chiral agrochemicals introduced to the market (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, acaricides, and nematicides) contain one or more stereogenic centers in the molecule, and almost 69% of them have been marketed as racemic mixtures of enantiomers or stereoisomers.
Peter Jeschke
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural SciencesBrown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stal 1854) is a destructive insect pest causing severe yield loss every year in rice (Oryza sativa L.) crop.
VINOD K PADALA +3 more
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Extracellular matrix molecules as targets for brown spider venom toxins
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2001 Loxoscelism, the term used to describe lesions and clinical manifestations induced by brown spider's venom (Loxosceles genus), has attracted much attention over the last years. Brown spider bites have been reported to cause a local and acute inflammatory
S.S. Veiga +4 more
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The Evolution of Primate Societies - Chapter 3 [PDF]
, 2012 Compared with other primates, New World monkeys display relatively limited ecological variability. New World monkey anatomy and social systems, however, are extremely diverse.
Di Fiore, Anthony +2 more
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