Regional variations in agrobiont composition and agrobiont life history of spiders (Araneae) within Hungary [PDF]
, 2011 Agrobiont spider species are well adapted to arable systems, which have fairly uniform vegetation structure and pest assemblages over continent-wide areas.
Kinga Fetykó +9 more
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Rice Stubble Provides Overwintering Microhabitats for Spiders in Winter-Fallowed Rice Fields
AgricultureSpiders are among the predominant predatory arthropods in rice field ecosystems. Although the potential of spiders for controlling pests during the growth stages of rice is well known, few studies have focused on the overwintering habits of spiders after
Jie Sun +5 more
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Morphological evolution of spiders predicted by pendulum mechanics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BACKGROUND:Animals have been hypothesized to benefit from pendulum mechanics during suspensory locomotion, in which the potential energy of gravity is converted into kinetic energy according to the energy-conservation principle.
Jordi Moya-Laraño +4 more
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First record of some jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) from Pench National Park, Maharashtra State, India [PDF]
Arthropods, 2020 Spiders are one of the most familiar and studied groups of arthropods. They are ubiquitous in most terrestrial ecosystems preying on other arthropods as well as their own type. Jumping spiders belong to family Salticidae and constitute the largest family
Pawan U. Gajbe
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Regional variation of habitat tolerance by some European spiders (Araneae) - a review [PDF]
, 2009 The data presented by HÄNGGI et al. (1995) and BOLAÑOS (2003) on the habitats of a large number of European spiders are examined, most of which appear to show non-specific preferences.
Duffey, Eric
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Spiders in Thailand (SIT) via spiderthailand.info: Thailand spider data retrieval system for geographical occurrence and photographic identification [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalHigh biodiversity in the tropics is good for ecosystem services; however, challenges in taxonomy and identification usually come from such high biodiversity. Spiders are no exception to the challenges. Identifying spiders in tropical places like Thailand
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The Canadian Entomologist, 1873 “The American Naturalist” for May, 1871, contains an interesting article on “Flying Spiders,” by J. H. Emerton. The species noticed by him are, no doubt, allied to the gossamer of Europe, and the phenomenon occurs early in autumn on the Islands of the St.
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Diversity and distribution of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in dry ecosystems of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) [PDF]
, 2010 The present study provides a robust data set for ecological planning and conservation of dry ecosystems in western Germany in general and North Rhine-Westphalia in particular.
Buchholz, Sascha +1 more
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The spider (ARANEAE) guilds of four different vegetation types with particular reference to plant structure [PDF]
, 1993 Four subsites were selected at the eastern end of Hedleyhope Fell, Tow Law, County Durham. These areas were chosen on the basis of differing vegetation types.
Bell, David
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Studies in Liocranidae (Araneae): a new afrotropical genus featuring a synapomorphy for the Cybaeodinae [PDF]
, 2013 Cteniogaster, a new genus of small ground spiders is described from Kenya and Tanzania. It encompasses seven new species, three of which are known from both sexes: C. toxarchus sp. nov., the type species, C. conviva sp. nov. and C. hexomma sp. nov. Three
Jocqué, Rudy +7 more
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