andI'm also an ecologist, interested in how living organisms are linked to their environment. The different kinds of spiders provide excellent examples of how finely adapted animals can be to their world.
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Arachnid communities on a wooded island in Scotland : |
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Biodiversity - (how) can it be quantified? and described? |
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...And going inside a harvest-spider : |
One of the ecological coexistence mechanisms for spider species
in temperate climes is their seasonality - some of them tend to be
active
at different times of the year. I can look through data gathered over
the
past thirty years or so and select species characteristic of different
seasons - and so at least, we can look and see what's the Spider
of the Month!.
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is well worth a look, as well as the international Arachnology web site, an important information source provided by Herman Vanuytven , and the International Society of Arachnology. |
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