Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil‐associated consumers from protists to vertebrates

AM Potapov, F Beaulieu, K Birkhofer… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

[HTML][HTML] A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders

S Mammola, M Pavlek, BA Huber, M Isaia, F Ballarin… - Scientific data, 2022 - nature.com
Species traits are an essential currency in ecology, evolution, biogeography, and
conservation biology. However, trait databases are unavailable for most organisms …

Spider conservation in Europe: a review

F Milano, T Blick, P Cardoso, M Chatzaki… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite their ecological importance and diversity, spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) are
underrepresented in conservation policies in comparison to other groups. We review all …

The life-cycle

MA Jervis, MJW Copland, KS Shameer… - Jervis's Insects as Natural …, 2023 - Springer
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Find a journal Publish with us Track your research Search Cart Book cover Jervis's Insects as …

[HTML][HTML] AnimalTraits-a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size

ME Herberstein, DJ McLean, E Lowe, JO Wolff… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Trait databases have become important resources for large-scale comparative studies in
ecology and evolution. Here we introduce the AnimalTraits database, a curated database of …

The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits

S Pekár, JO Wolff, Ľ Černecká, K Birkhofer… - Database, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Spiders are a highly diversified group of arthropods and play an important role in terrestrial
ecosystems as ubiquitous predators, which makes them a suitable group to test a variety of …

Stabilized morphological evolution of spiders despite mosaic changes in foraging ecology

JO Wolff, K Wierucka, GB Paterno… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A prominent question in animal research is how the evolution of morphology and ecology
interacts in the generation of phenotypic diversity. Spiders are some of the most abundant …

Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

S Mammola, J Pétillon, A Hacala… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Species distribution models (SDMs) have emerged as essential tools in the
equipment of many ecologists, useful to explore species distributions in space and time and …

Introducing the World Arachnida Catalog: the new research environment for (almost all) arachnid orders

D Harms, W Nentwig, D Gloor, MS Harvey - The Journal of Arachnology, 2022 - BioOne
The World Arachnida Catalog (WAC, online at https://wac. nmbe. ch) is introduced as an
amalgamation of the highly successful World Spider Catalog (WSC), the Pseudoscorpions of …

A comparison of two widely used methods for estimating taxonomic and functional diversities of epigeal arthropods in some temperate grasslands

D Amiar, C Leandro, C Courtial… - Entomologia …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Suction sampling is increasingly being used to estimate abundance and diversity of epigeal
arthropods, yet no study has quantified its efficiency to simultaneously assess diversity at …