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

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  Six Months of Prompt Engineering: Building Scientific Altitudinal, Topographical, and Geological Visualizations for Spiders By: Luis A. Roque,  Arácnido Taxonomy Six months ago, I set out on what seemed like a relatively straightforward goal: create better visual representations of where spiders live. What I quickly discovered was that producing scientifically meaningful ecological visualizations requires far more than simply asking artificial intelligence to draw a landscape. It requires learning how to communicate ecology, geology, geography, climate, and biodiversity in a language that AI can understand. Over the past six months, I have spent hundreds of hours developing, testing, refining, and rewriting prompts designed to generate publication-quality altitudinal, topographical, geological, and habitat-based visualizations for spiders, particularly tarantulas and other species whose distributions are closely tied to specific environmental conditions. What began as a curi...

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

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

Abstract

This paper presents an initial contribution to the study of the spider and opilionid fauna of the Charca de Suárez Nature Reserve (Motril, Granada), which includes 47 species of spiders (12 of which are new for Granada and three new for Andalusia) and two harvestments species, thus expanding knowledge of the biodiversity in this natural enclave of the Guadalfeo river valley.

Mármol-Melendo, M., Adame, F. R. & Martín, D. F. (2026). Primer listado de arañas y opiliones de la Reserva Natural Concertada Charca de Suárez (Motril, Granada, España). Boletín de la Sociedad Andaluza de Entomología 36: 79-96.