Description
Spiders are the 7th most diverse order of arthropods globally and are prominent predators in all prairie habitats. In this chapter a checklist for the spiders of the prairie provinces (751 species), and surrounding jurisdictions (44 species) is presented along with an overview of all 26 families that occur in the region. Eighteen of the species from the region are adventive. Linyphiidae is by far the dominant family representing 39% of all the species. Lycosidae and Gnaphosidae each represent 8% and three other families account each for 7% (Salticidae, Dyctinidae and Theridiidae). Furthermore, a summary of all biodiversity studies conducted in the Prairies Ecozone and a selection of studies in adjacent transition ecoregions is provided. The Mixed Grassland Ecoregion has the most distinctive assemblage; Schizocosa mccooki and Zelotes lasalanus are common and unique to this ecoregion. Other ecoregions appear to harbour less distinctive assemblages but most ecoregions have been poorly studied. Lack of professional opportunities for spider systematists in Canada remains a major barrier to the advancement of the taxonomy and ecology of this fascinating group of arthropods.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 797 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Cárcamo, H., J. Pinzón, R. Leech, and J. Spence. 2014. Data for Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Canadian Prairies. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/qwco8c3a
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Biological Survey of Canada. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ & http://www.canadensys.net/norms
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b3518e36-5743-4a17-87d8-d5983f0e759c. Biological Survey of Canada publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canadensys.
Keywords
Checklist; Inventoryregional; Araneae; checklist; taxonomy; Canada; provinces; prairies; open data
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Geographic Coverage
Canadian Prairies
Bounding Coordinates | South West [49.36, -118.11], North East [59.28, -93.36] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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Order | Araneae (spiders) |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Cárcamo H., J. Pinzón, R. Leech, and J. Spence. 2014. Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Canadian Prairies. In Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands (Volume 3): Biodiversity and Systematics Part 1. Edited by H. A. Cárcamo and D. J. Giberson. Biological Survey of Canada. pp. 75-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.3752/9780968932162.ch4 doi:10.3752/9780968932162.ch4
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Alternative Identifiers | http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/qwco8c3a |
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