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- Title
Interactions among young stages of the wolf spiders Pardosa moesta and P. mackenziana (Araneae: Lycosidae).
- Authors
Christopher M. Buddle, Lisa A.
- Abstract
Spiders are diverse, ubiquitous, occupy most terrestrial habitats, and are ecologically important. Spiders consume large numbers of herbivores and detritivores which affects plant-herbivore food webs and litter decomposition. However, the role of spiders in many ecosystems is not fully understood and unraveling the interactions between spiders and their prey and among spiders will help to further understand the impact of spiders in ecosystems. Wolf spiders in the genus Pardosa are dominant in most temperate and northern ecosystems and there is frequently high overlap in the geographic range of many species. Species coexistence has largely been explained by small-scale habitat segregation but few manipulative experiments have studied competition in Pardosa.
- Subjects
SPIDERS; WOLF spiders; BIODEGRADATION; PARDOSA; BIOTIC communities; FOOD chains
- Publication
Oikos, 2002, Vol 96, Issue 1, p130
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.960114.x