Towards establishment of a centralized spider traits database

Lowe, E. Cronin; Wolff, Jonas; Aceves-Aparicio, Alfonso; Birkhofer, Klaus; Branco, Vasco Veiga; Cardoso, Pedro; Chichorro, Filipe; Fukushima, Caroline Sayuri; Gonçalves‐Souza, Thiago; Haddad, Charles R.; Isaia, Marco; Krehenwinkel, Henrik; Audisio, Tracy Lynn; Macías–Hernández, Nuria; Malumbres‐Olarte, Jagoba; Mammola, Stefano; McLean, Donald James; Michalko, Radek; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Pekár, Stanislav; Pétillon, Julien; Privet, Kaïna; Scott, Catherine; Uhl, Gabriele; Urbano-Tenorio, Fernando; Wong, Boon Hui; Herberstein, Marie E.

doi:10.1636/0161-8202-48.2.103

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“…(2013) who compared tropical (China) and temperate (Germany) spider assemblages. The functional diversity was yet based on hunting guilds only in this study and should be computed with other traits in the future when they will be available at large spatial scales (Lowe et al., 2020).…”

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Comparative patterns in taxonomic and functional spider diversities between tropical vs. temperate forests

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Pétillon

2020

Ecology and Evolution

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The latitudinal gradient of diversity, that is increase in species richness with decreasing latitude, has long been recognized by the scientific community (Pianka, 1966). Gradients of diversity in various arthropod taxa from tropical to temperate and even polar ecosystems are well documented through meta-analyses (Willig et al., 2003; but see Hillebrand, 2004). Arthropods were particularly studied in tropical rainforests (the species richest terrestrial ecosystem: Miller et al., 2002) where nearly 1.5 million tropical arthropod species are currently described out of an estimated number of 2 to 7 million tropical arthropod species (Hamilton et al., 2010; Stork, 2017). Herbivorous arthropod assemblages have been extensively studied in both tropical and temperate forests with studies of diversity, species richness per plant, host specificity, and herbivory pressure. Herbivore arthropod diversity, as well as rate of herbivory, are considered higher in tropical systems compared to temperate counter

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Comparative patterns in taxonomic and functional spider diversities between tropical vs. temperate forests

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2020

Ecology and Evolution

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“…The recent upsurge in open source trait databases and projects [ants (Parr et al, 2017), ground beetles (Homburg et al, 2014) and spiders (Lowe et al, 2020;] offers an unprecedented data baseline to integrate trait variability in modelling exercises and develop mechanistic descriptions of species distributions and their changes through time.…”

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Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

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Pétillon

Hacala

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Diversity and Distributions

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AimSpecies distribution models (SDMs) have emerged as essential tools in the equipment of many ecologists, useful to explore species distributions in space and time and answering an assortment of questions related to biogeography, climate change biology and conservation biology. Historically, most SDM research concentrated on well‐known organisms, especially vertebrates. In recent years, these tools are becoming increasingly important for predicting the distribution of understudied invertebrate taxa. Here, we reviewed the literature published on main terrestrial arthropod predators (ants, ground beetles and spiders) to explore some of the challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling in mega‐diverse arthropod groups.LocationGlobal.MethodsSystematic mapping of the literature and bibliometric analysis.ResultsMost SDM studies of animals to date have focused either on broad samples of vertebrates or on arthropod species that are charismatic (e.g. butterflies) or economically important (e.g. vectors of disease, crop pests and pollinators). We show that the use of SDMs to map the geography of terrestrial arthropod predators is a nascent phenomenon, with a near‐exponential growth in the number of studies over the past ten years and still limited collaborative networks among researchers. There is a bias in studies towards charismatic species and geographical areas that hold lower levels of diversity but greater availability of data, such as Europe and North America.ConclusionsArthropods pose particular modelling challenges that add to the ones already present for vertebrates, but they should also offer opportunities for future SDM research as data and new methods are made available. To overcome data limitations, we illustrate the potential of modern data sources and new modelling approaches. We discuss areas of research where SDMs may be combined with dispersal models and increasingly available phylogenetic and functional data to understand evolutionary changes in ranges and range‐limiting traits over past and contemporary time‐scales.

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“…The recent upsurge in open source trait databases and projects [ants (Parr et al, 2017), ground beetles (Homburg et al, 2014) and spiders (Lowe et al, 2020)] offers an unprecedented data baseline to integrate trait variability in modeling exercises and develop mechanistic descriptions of species distributions and their changes through time. Accordingly, the integration of correlative distribution analyses and functional approaches has recently been advocated (Mammola et al, 2019;Thuiller et al, 2009;Wittmann et al, 2016), as it would make it possible to bridge the differences in biogeography and functional ecology and move towards the novel field of 'functional biogeography ' (Violle et al, 2014).…”

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Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

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Pétillon²,

Hacala³

et al. 2020

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Species distribution models (SDMs) are emerging as essential tools in the equipment of many ecologists; they are useful in exploring species distributions in space and time and in answering an assortment of questions related to historical biogeography, climate change biology and conservation biology. Given that arthropod distributions are strongly influenced by microclimatic conditions and microhabitat structure, they should be an ideal candidate group for SDM research, especially generalist predators because they are not directly dependent on vegetation or prey types. However, most SDM studies of animals to date have focused either on broad samples of vertebrates or on arthropod species that are charismatic (e.g. butterflies) or economically important (e.g. vectors of disease, crop pests and pollinators). By means of a systematic bibliometric approach, we targeted the literature published on key terrestrial arthropod predators (ants, ground beetles and spiders), chosen as a model to explore challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling in mega-diverse arthropod groups. We show that the use of SDMs to map the geography of terrestrial arthropod predators has been a recent phenomenon, with a near-exponential growth in the number of studies over the past 10 years and still limited collaborative networks among researchers. There is a bias in studies towards charismatic species and geographical areas that hold lower levels of diversity but greater availability of data, such as Europe and North America. To overcome some of these data limitations, we illustrate the potential of modern data sources (citizen science programmes, online databases) and new modelling approaches (ensemble of small models, modelling above the species level). Finally, we discuss areas of research where SDMs may be combined with dispersal models and increasingly available phylogenetic and functional data to obtain mechanistic descriptions of species distributions and their spatio-temporal shifts within a global change perspective.

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Towards establishment of a centralized spider traits database

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Comparative patterns in taxonomic and functional spider diversities between tropical vs. temperate forests

Comparative patterns in taxonomic and functional spider diversities between tropical vs. temperate forests

Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

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