Dispatch from the field: ecology of ground-web-building spiders with description of a new species (Araneae, Symphytognathidae)
Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE Language English Country Bulgaria Media electronic-ecollection
Document type Journal Article
PubMed
24891829
PubMed Central
PMC4031436
DOI
10.3897/bdj.2.e1076
PII: BiodiversityDataJournal
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Borneo, Crassignatha, disturbance, inundation, oil palm plantation, riparian forest, riverine forest, tropical field course,
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
Crassignathadanaugirangensis sp. n. (Araneae: Symphytognathidae) was discovered during a tropical ecology field course held at the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah, Malaysia. A taxonomic description and accompanying ecological study were completed as course activities. To assess the ecology of this species, which belongs to the ground-web-building spider community, three habitat types were surveyed: riparian forest, recently inundated riverine forest, and oil palm plantation. Crassignathadanaugirangensis sp. n. is the most abundant ground-web-building spider species in riparian forest; it is rare or absent from the recently inundated forest and was not found in a nearby oil palm plantation. The availability of this taxonomic description may help facilitate the accumulation of data about this species and the role of inundated riverine forest in shaping invertebrate communities.
Antwerp University Antwerp Belgium
Delft University Delft Netherlands
Hortus Botanicus Leiden University Leiden Netherlands
Leiden University Leiden Netherlands
Leiden University Leiden Netherlands ; Delft University Delft Netherlands
Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden Netherlands
Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden Netherlands ; Plazi Bern Switzerland
Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden Netherlands ; Universiti Malaysia Sabah Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey Newark United States of America
Sabah Wildlife Department Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
Universiti Malaysia Sabah Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands
University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark
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