Towards establishment of a centralized spider traits database

EC Lowe, JO Wolff, A Aceves-Aparicio… - The Journal of …, 2020 - BioOne
A main goal of ecological and evolutionary biology is understanding and predicting
interactions between populations and both abiotic and biotic environments, the spatial and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A database of functional traits for spiders from native forests of the Iberian Peninsula and Macaronesia

N Macías-Hernández, C Ramos… - Biodiversity Data …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background There is an increasing demand for databases including species trait information
for biodiversity and community ecology studies. The existence of trait databases is useful for …

ARAapp: filling gaps in the ecological knowledge of spiders using an automated and dynamic approach to analyze systematically collected community data

A Bach, F Raub, H Höfer, R Ottermanns… - Database, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The ARAMOB data repository compiles meticulously curated spider community datasets
from systematical collections, ensuring a high standard of data quality. These datasets are …

arakno-An R package for effective spider nomenclature, distribution and trait data retrieval from online resources

P Cardoso, S Pekár - The Journal of Arachnology, 2022 - BioOne
Online open databases are increasing in number, usefulness, and ease of use. There are
currently two main global databases for spiders, the World Spider Catalogue (WSC) and the …

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 …

The relative importance of abiotic and biotic environmental conditions for taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of spiders across spatial scales

J Måsviken, L Dalén, K Norén, F Dalerum - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
Both abiotic and biotic conditions may be important for biodiversity. However, their relative
importance may vary among different diversity dimensions as well as across spatial scales …

Building a robust, densely-sampled spider tree of life for ecosystem research

N Macías-Hernández, M Domènech, P Cardoso… - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Phylogenetic relatedness is a key diversity measure for the analysis and understanding of
how species and communities evolve across time and space. Understanding the …

Spider diversification through space and time

D Dimitrov, G Hormiga - Annual Review of Entomology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Spiders (Araneae) make up a remarkably diverse lineage of predators that have
successfully colonized most terrestrial ecosystems. All spiders produce silk, and many …

Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life

NL Garrison, J Rodriguez, I Agnarsson, JA Coddington… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
ABSTRACT Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod
predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over …