Global patterns of guild composition and functional diversity of spiders

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Authors	CARDOSO Pedro PEKÁR Stanislav JOCQUÉ Rudy CODDINGTON Jonathan A.
Year of publication	2011
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	PloS ONE
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	http://iopscience.iop.org/2040-8986/13/11/115704/
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021710
Field	Ecology
Keywords	diversity; araneae; guilds
Description	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 taxonomic and functional diversity of spider assemblages and; (5) relate functional diversity with habitat structure.
Related projects:	Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time