Species and guild structure of a Neotropical spider assemblage (Araneae) from Reserva Ducke, Amazonas, Brazil

H Höfer, AD Brescovit - Andrias, 2001 - regionalia.blb-karlsruhe.de
We present a species list of spiders collected over a period of more than 5 years in a
rainforest reserve in central Amazonia-Reserva Ducke. The list is mainly based on intense …

Refining the establishment of guilds in Neotropical spiders (Arachnida: Araneae)

SC Dias, LS Carvalho, AB Bonaldo… - Journal of Natural …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
We present a refinement in the establishment of guilds in Neotropical spiders based on
information assessed by assigning different levels of taxa identification, which allowed better …

[HTML][HTML] Spider diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in Atlantic Forest areas at Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

P Castanheira, A Pérez-González… - Biodiversity Data …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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. The only available records …

Curves, maps and hotspots: the diversity and distribution of araneomorph spiders in the Neotropics

AJ Santos, AD Brescovit, M de Oliveira-Tomasi… - Behaviour and ecology …, 2017 - Springer
The infraorder Araneomorphae comprises more than nine-tenths of spider diversity,
including most of the better known web-weaving spiders. As observed for other taxa, the …

[PDF][PDF] Portuguese spiders (Araneae): a preliminary checklist

P Cardoso - … of the 18th European Colloquium of …, 2000 - european-arachnology.org
Abstract Cardoso P.: Portuguese spiders (Araneae): a preliminary checklist. In GAJDOŁ P.,
PEKÊR S.(eds): Proceedings of the 18th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Stará …

Species richness and community structure of arboreal spider assemblages in fragments of three vegetational types at Banhado Grande wet plain, Gravataí River, Rio …

AB Bonaldo, MAL Marques, R Pinto-da-Rocha… - Iheringia. Série …, 2007 - SciELO Brasil
The taxonomic composition, observed and estimated species richness, and patterns of
community structure of arboreal spider assemblages in eleven sites surrounding the" …

Landscape mosaic of Araucaria forest and forest monocultures influencing understorey spider assemblages in southern Brazil

R Baldissera, G Ganade, AD Brescovit… - Austral Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates how abundance, diversity and composition of understorey spiders
were influenced by four different forest habitats in a southern Brazilian Araucaria forest. The …

Diversity of spiders (Araneae) in a savanna reserve, Northern Province, South Africa

C Whitmore, R Slotow, TE Crouch… - The Journal of …, 2002 - BioOne
In this study our objectives were to describe the diversity and characteristics of spider
families occurring in a range of habitat types within a typical savanna ecosystem, to assess …

Phylogeography of the spider Araneus venatrix (Araneidae) suggests past connections between Amazon and Atlantic rainforests

EA Peres, MJ Silva, VN Solferini - Biological Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Several pieces of evidence support the hypothesis that the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests
were connected in the past, but the details of this historical disjunction are poorly …

Spider assemblages in Costa Rican cloud forests: effects of forest level and forest age

SP Yanoviak, G Kragh, NM Nadkarni - Studies on neotropical …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated spider assemblages in trees at three cloud forest sites and in trees isolated
in pasture habitat in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Spiders were collected from two forest types …