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Wildflowers-pollinator-crab spider predator food-web as indicator of the agroecosystem biodiversity

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Wildflowers play a crucial role in the functionality of the agroecosystem food chain. In order to investigate the role of biodiversity in the relationships between wildflowers, relative pollinators and their crab spider predators, six wildflower ...
Stefano Benvenuti
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It's Complicated: How Sex, Family, and Season Affect Growth of a Sexually Size Dimorphic Spider

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Extreme female‐biased sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in Nephilingis cruentata emerges when male and female growth trajectories diverge mid‐development. Seasonal effects influence both sexes similarly, but family effects are strongly sex‐specific. These patterns identify a critical developmental window for mechanistic studies of SSD.
Tim Prezelj, Paul Vincent Debes, Rok Golobinek, Simona Kralj‐Fišer   +3 more
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Comments on “A new species of genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Telangana, India and a detailed description of Thomisus projectus Tikader, 1960” by Pravalikha & Srinivasulu, 2015

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2015
Description of Thomisus telanganaensis Pravalikha & Srinivasulu, 2015 based on two females and their interpretation as intraspecific variation, are likely to be distinct Thomisus species.
Siddharth Kulkarni
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The Australian Hydromyine Rodents—Their Interspecific Diversity and Reproductive Biology: A Review

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
There are two major groups, the Rattus species and the Hydromyini, in Australia. Clearly, the hydromyine rodents, unlike the Rattus genus, exhibit a diverse array of reproductive biological traits in both males and females, the full evolutionary significance of which has yet to be ascertained.
William G. Breed, Christopher M. Leigh, Eleanor J. Peirce   +2 more
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Fragment Edges Benefit a Common Predator of Pollinators via Bottom‐Up Effects

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study investigated the hypotheses regarding the effects of habitat fragmentation on spider biomass and causing bottom‐up or top‐down effects on multi‐trophic relationships. ABSTRACT Defaunation following habitat fragmentation typically threatens predators at higher trophic levels, which further alter prey and plants via top‐down effects.
Wenlong Zhou, Peng Ren, Marcel Holyoak, Donghao Wu, Chen Zhu, Wenjie Zhou, Ping Ding, Mingjian Yu   +7 more
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Crab spider vision improves their prey capture despite low visual system investment [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Crab spiders (Thomisidae) are well-known predators, typically ambushing prey upon flowers and other plants. This style of predation suggests a potential benefit from vision in prey capture by crab spiders despite their comparatively small eyes.
Sam J. England, Lucille Rose, Vanessa Penna-Gonçalves, Marie E. Herberstein, Lauren Sumner-Rooney   +4 more
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Intact coastal nursery rearing amid climate‐driven phenological shifts in threatened salmon

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature linking phenology to climate has proliferated in recent decades and shows that climate change has reorganized seasonal opportunities worldwide. However, this literature often quantifies changes in point measures of timing (e.g., beginnings and peaks) without context about duration (e.g., rearing season length) or performance (e.g ...
Stuart H. Munsch, Joseph H. Anderson, Eric M. Beamer, Joshua W. Chamberlin, Christopher Ellings, Correigh M. Greene, Sayre Hodgson, Michael T. LeMoine, W. Todd Zackey   +8 more
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Re-examination of the crab spider species Oxytate minuta Tang, Yin et Peng, 2005 (Araneae: Thomisidae)

, 2012
Jin, Chi, Zhang, Feng (2012): Re-examination of the crab spider species Oxytate minuta Tang, Yin et Peng, 2005 (Araneae: Thomisidae).
Jin, Chi, Zhang, Feng
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Examining the Impact of Derelict Pots on Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus) Catch and Harvest Within a Recreational Fishery

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Derelict fishing gear can negatively affect marine ecosystems through mortality in coastal environments. This study explored the impact of derelict and active crab pots on recreational blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) catch rates and landings in a Mid‐Atlantic estuary by deploying experimental pots in four habitat strata within three sections ...
Randy J. Feris Serrano, Jennifer E. Repp, Kaylin M. Regan, Arthur C. Trembanis, Matthew J. Oliver, Edward A. Hale   +5 more
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Revision of the spider crab genus Sargassocarcinus Ward, 1936 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Epialtidae)

, 2016
Ng, Peter K. L., Lin, Chia-Wei, Naruse, Tohru (2016): Revision of the spider crab genus Sargassocarcinus Ward, 1936 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Epialtidae). Zootaxa 4162 (2): 313-330, DOI: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.
Lin, Chia-Wei, PETER K. L. NG, TOHRU NARUSE, CHIA-WEI LIN, Ng, Peter K. L., Naruse, Tohru   +5 more
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