Global patterns of guild composition and functional diversity of spiders.

The objectives of this work are: (1) to define spider guilds for all extant families worldwide; (2) test if guilds defined at family level are good surrogates of species guilds; (3) compare the taxonomic and guild composition of spider assemblages from different parts of the world; (4) compare the t...

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Main Authors: Pedro Cardoso, Stano Pekár, Rudy Jocqué, Jonathan A Coddington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3126856?pdf=render