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Broad-Scale Climatic Gradients Drive Multiple Facets of Scorpion Beta Diversity in Northeastern Brazil

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  Broad-Scale Climatic Gradients Drive Multiple Facets of Scorpion Beta Diversity in Northeastern Brazil ABSTRACT Aim Beta diversity analyses clarify mechanisms structuring ecological communities, but their multidimensional facets remain poorly explored in arthropods. Here, we quantified taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional beta diversity in scorpions, partitioned these facets into species replacement and richness differences, and evaluated the relative importance of spatial structure and environmental conditions in driving community assembly. Location Northeastern Brazil, South America. Taxon Scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Methods Taxonomic beta diversity was estimated using species presence across 70 sites in northeastern Brazil. Phylogenetic turnover was calculated from a multi-locus molecular tree, and functional beta diversity was derived from morphometric and ecological traits. All beta diversity facets were decomposed into replacement and richness-difference component...

Death-feigning behavior following dragline escape in a huntsman spider Heteropoda venatoria (Araneae: Sparassidae)

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Arachnids of the Yoakum Dunes Wildlife Management Area

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Spider venom peptides Ht1a and Gg1a are toxic to honeybee parasite Varroa destructor by topical application

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Truncated life history underlies rapid local adaptation in island rattlesnake venom expression

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Six Months of Prompt Engineering: Building Scientific Altitudinal, Topographical, and Geological Visualizations for Spiders

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Description of a new Andean species of widow spider (Araneae, Theridiidae, Latrodectus)

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On the synanthropic occurrence of Falconina gracilis in Venezuela and the type locality of F. brignolii

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First checklist of spiders and harvestmen from the Charca de Suárez Protected Nature Reserve (Motril, Granada, Spain)

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Antivenom Therapy for Medically Important Spiders in the United States

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Venom gland transcriptomics and bioactivity profiling suggest bifunctional hyaluronidase activity in the venom of Mesobuthus crucittii (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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Ontogenetic and geographic venom variation in the Great Basin Rattlesnake, Crotalus oreganus lutosus

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Urban Spider Assemblages in a Neotropical City: Diversity, Functional Composition, and Introduced Species in Public Parks of Chetumal, Mexico

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A new species of Strotarchus Simon, 1888 from Mexico and description of the male of the type species S. nebulosus Simon, 1888 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae)

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A review of Idiommata Ausserer, 1871 (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae), with the description of a related new genus and new species of giant Australian brush-footed spiders

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Compsobuthus hadeki sp. n. from Iraq (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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Egg-Carrying and Cheliceral Comb in Ibaloniinae Harvestmen From the Solomon Islands (Opiliones: Podoctidae)

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Huntsman spiders of the genus Sinopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwestern China, with descriptions of two new species

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