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International Biological Flora: Tsuga canadensis*
Journal of Ecology, Volume 113, Issue 10, Page 3037-3080, October 2025.Eastern Hemlock is a long‐lived forest tree of eastern North America known for its deep shade and home given to many organisms. Despite surviving large‐scale clearing for agriculture when Europeans arrived, it returned to dominate when the land was abandoned in the mid 1800s.
Peter A. Thomas, David A. Orwig
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2013 We report three interesting species of comb-footed spiders (Aranaea: Theridiidae) belonging to three different genera, namely, Latrodectus, Rhomphaea and Coleosoma, of which Latrodectus erythromelas is a first record to India, while Rhomphaea projiciens ...
C. Srinivasulu +6 more
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NOTES ON TAXONOMY AND FAUNA OF SPIDERS (ARANEI) OF THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA AND WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN
Юг России: экология, развитие, 2014 A description of new species Alopecosa kulsaryensis sp. n. and a male Alopecosa inderensis Ponomarev, 2007 (family Lycosidae), which was known only on females, are presented in the paper.
A. V. Ponamarev, K. V. Dvadnenko
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Description of the male of Steatoda ephippiata (Araneae: Theridiidae) [PDF]
, 2012 The previously unknown male of Steatoda ephippiata (Thorell, 1875) is described from recently collected material in Tunisia.
Bosmans, Robert, Keer, Johan van
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Spider and harvestmen biodiversity in New Zealand horticultural ecosystems
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 255-273, September 2025.ABSTRACT Spiders contribute to pest suppression in agroecosystems by direct and non‐direct consumption. They provide an ecosystem service which provides economic gains to horticultural growing systems, such as apples, wine grapes, and kiwifruit. Very few studies on spider biodiversity in cropping systems have been completed in New Zealand, and no ...
Nicola Sullivan +5 more
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The role of spiders as predators of two lepidopteran Brassica pests [PDF]
, 2016 Spiders are thought to play a significant role in limiting pest outbreaks in agroecosystems such as vineyards, orchards and cotton. The diversity and impact of spiders in vegetable crops are less well understood, although there is evidence that predators
Bishop +41 more
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Ecosphere, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2025.Abstract Ants are often referred to as “the little things that rule the world” because of the critical roles they play as ecosystem engineers and through trophic and non‐trophic interactions. We describe an experimental test of the influence of ants on spiders and beetles in an Australian tropical savanna.
Sarah N. Bonney +2 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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Revista Peruana de BiologíaLos estratos superiores de bosques tropicales albergan una gran diversidad de organismos; sin embargo, el conocimiento sobre las arañas en estos estratos es limitado.
Germán Arellano Cruz +2 more
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Cytisus scoparius*
Journal of Ecology, Volume 113, Issue 7, Page 1877-1933, July 2025.Broom is an attractive and common native plant across Britain, Ireland and most of Europe, and yet it is considered a harmful and invasive weed around the rest of the world. This is aided by broom thriving on poor dry soils, helped by using green stems for photosynthesis and having root nodules to fix nitrogen.
Peter A. Thomas +9 more
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