http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/qwco8c3a Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Canadian Prairies Héctor Cárcamo Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Scientist - Insect Pest Management
5403 - 1 Avenue South Lethbridge Alberta T1J 4B1 CA
403-317-2247 hector.carcamo@agr.gc.ca
Héctor Cárcamo Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Scientist - Insect Pest Management
5403 - 1 Avenue South Lethbridge Alberta T1J 4B1 CA
403-317-2247 hector.carcamo@agr.gc.ca
Héctor Cárcamo Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Scientist - Insect Pest Management
5403 - 1 Avenue South Lethbridge Alberta T1J 4B1 CA
403-317-2247 hector.carcamo@agr.gc.ca author
Jaime Pinzón Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta Postdoctoral Fellow
751 General Services Building Edmonton Alberta T6G 2H1 CA
(780) 492-6965 jpinzon@ualberta.ca author
Robin Leech
Edmonton Alberta CA
releech@telus.net author
John Spence Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta Professor
751 General Services Building Edmonton Alberta T6G 2H1 CA
john.spence@ualberta.ca author
David Shorthouse Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre Biodiversity Informatics Manager
4101 rue Sherbrooke est Montréal QC H1X 2B2 CA
514-343-6111 82354 davipdshorthouse@gmail.com processor
Biological Survey of Canada
CA
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2014-09-15 eng 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. Checklist GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Inventoryregional GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml Araneae checklist taxonomy Canada provinces prairies open data n/a http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ & http://www.canadensys.net/norms Canadian Prairies -118.11 -93.36 59.28 49.36 order Araneae spiders Héctor Cárcamo Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Scientist - Insect Pest Management
5403 - 1 Avenue South Lethbridge Alberta T1J 4B1 CA
403-317-2247 hector.carcamo@agr.gc.ca
2013-10-01T11:06:21.545-04:00 dataset 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 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