How much space is needed for spider conservation? Home range and movement patterns of wolf spiders (Aranea, Lycosidae) at Baltic Sea beaches

Seer, Franziska K.; El-Balti, Nadja; Schrautzer, Joachim; Irmler, Ulrich

doi:10.1007/s10841-015-9800-7

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“…Conversely, less mobile small‐bodied taxa, such as many invertebrates, may benefit from diverse cover types within their typically smaller home ranges (Cano et al., 2022; Hass et al., 2018; Maurer et al., 2022; Priyadarshana et al., 2021; Zurbuchen et al., 2010). Bees, spiders and beetles, for example generally have home ranges <0.5 km 2 (Loreau & Nolf, 1993; Seer et al., 2015; Zurbuchen et al., 2010), but large‐bodied bees might exhibit larger foraging ranges (Greenleaf et al., 2007). As such, both crop and landscape heterogeneity would have comparatively similar effects on invertebrates (Figure 1c).…”

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Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis

Priyadarshana,

Martin,

Sirami

et al. 2024

Ecology Letters

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Agricultural intensification not only increases food production but also drives widespread biodiversity decline. Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to increase biodiversity across habitats, while increasing crop heterogeneity may support biodiversity within agroecosystems. These spatial heterogeneity effects can be partitioned into compositional (land‐cover type diversity) and configurational heterogeneity (land‐cover type arrangement), measured either for the crop mosaic or across the landscape for both crops and semi‐natural habitats. However, studies have reported mixed responses of biodiversity to increases in these heterogeneity components across taxa and contexts. Our meta‐analysis covering 6397 fields across 122 studies conducted in Asia, Europe, North and South America reveals consistently positive effects of crop and landscape heterogeneity, as well as compositional and configurational heterogeneity for plant, invertebrate, vertebrate, pollinator and predator biodiversity. Vertebrates and plants benefit more from landscape heterogeneity, while invertebrates derive similar benefits from both crop and landscape heterogeneity. Pollinators benefit more from configurational heterogeneity, but predators favour compositional heterogeneity. These positive effects are consistent for invertebrates and vertebrates in both tropical/subtropical and temperate agroecosystems, and in annual and perennial cropping systems, and at small to large spatial scales. Our results suggest that promoting increased landscape heterogeneity by diversifying crops and semi‐natural habitats, as suggested in the current UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, is key for restoring biodiversity in agricultural landscapes.

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Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis

Priyadarshana,

Martin,

Sirami

et al. 2024

Ecology Letters

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“…Spiders are well-known for their use of chemical attractants to bait prey to their location [17]. As spiders tend to be mostly sessile, central-place foragers [17][18][19], the deployment of volatile compounds to bait and concentrate potential prey increases the chances of successful capture, compared to a passive approach of simple web placement. In one of the most thoroughly studied of these chemical lure systems, large immature and adult female bolas spiders of the genera Mastaphora, Cladomelea, and Ordgarius produce a palette of sex pheromone mimics to attract male moth prey.…”

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Fatal Attraction: Argiope Spiders Lure Male Hemileuca Moth Prey with the Promise of Sex

Warren,

Severns

2024

Insects

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Predator–prey coevolution, particularly chemo-ecological arms races, is challenging to study as it requires the integration of behavioral, chemical ecology, and phylogenetic studies in an amenable system. Moths of the genus Hemileuca (Saturniidae) are colorful, diurnal, and fast and often fly well above the vegetation canopy layer. However, several Hemileuca species have been reported as being captured in spider webs, specifically Argiope species (Araneidae). Female Hemileuca are known to produce mating pheromones and spiders of the Araneidae family are known to use pheromone lures to attract lepidopteran prey. We presented primarily female Argiope aurantia, which are attractive to male Anisota pellucida (Saturniidae), to different populations of Hemileuca species across the southern and western United States to categorize the homing response strength of different species of male Hemileuca. When we mapped these Argiope lure attraction strength categories onto the most recently published Hemileuca phylogeny, the behavioral patterns suggested a potential co-evolutionary arms race between predators and prey. Males of Hemileuca maia, H. grotei, and H. nevadensis (all in the same clade) appeared to have no attraction to A. aurantia, while H. magnifica and H. hera (within a different, separate clade) appeared to be strongly attracted to A. aurantia, but H. nuttalli (also within the H. hera and H. magnifica clade) displayed no attraction. Furthermore, Hemileuca eglanterina (yet a different clade) displayed strong, weak, and no attraction to A. aurantia, depending on the population. These apparent clade partitioning patterns of Argiope lure effectiveness and within-species variation in Hemileuca lure responses suggest a predator–prey coevolutionary history of measures and countermeasures.

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Botero

Finkl

2017

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How much space is needed for spider conservation? Home range and movement patterns of wolf spiders (Aranea, Lycosidae) at Baltic Sea beaches

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Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis

Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis

Fatal Attraction: Argiope Spiders Lure Male Hemileuca Moth Prey with the Promise of Sex

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