Spider assemblages in bird burrows

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027006%3A_____%2F18%3A00004730" target="_blank" >RIV/00027006:_____/18:00004730 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11120/18:43916646 RIV/62157124:16270/18:43876602

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0036-3" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0036-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0036-3" target="_blank" >10.2478/s11756-018-0036-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spider assemblages in bird burrows

Original language description

The arachnofauna of bird burrows, which are excavated in the soil, is incompletely understood. The bird burrows have a potential to serve as refugia for cavity-adopting spider species particularly in anthropogenic habitats formed by sand mining, which otherwise suffer from a limited availability of other types of cavities. We hypothesized that the presence of abundant food resources and safe shelter in bird burrows excavated in the soil allow the existence of specialized assemblage of spiders, similarly to those known from cavities and nests made by other birds and mammals. Here we examined 353 burrows that had been previously occupied by Riparia riparia, Merops apiaster or Passer montanus. The burrows were examined in early May and early September in 24 Czech sand pits and construction sites. The burrows hosted a species-rich assemblage of spiders that, however, occurred at low abundances. The spiders were represented prevalently by species known to have distributions centered in anthropogenic and urban habitats, including species that were never observed outside of heated buildings in the study area and species that only were previously known from mammalian burrows and loess and karstic soil crevices. Spider assemblages strongly differed between bird burrows and cavities and nests made by other birds and mammals. The species composition and overall low abundance of spiders in bird burrows was unexpected and was in strong contrast to previous observations of spider assemblages in cavities and nests made by other birds and mammals. Concluded, we rejected the initial hypothesis and. instead, we have shown that bird burrows are rarely occupied by spiders and if occupied, the spider species that adopt old bird burrows and the nests inside of them predominantly consist of species known to have their distribution centered to anthropogenic and urban habitats.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-10976S" target="_blank" >GA17-10976S: Do the neonicotinoids have sublethal effects on spiders, harming their ability to regulate agricultural pests?</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biologia (Bratislava)

ISSN

0006-3088

e-ISSN

1336-9563

Volume of the periodical

73

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

267-272

UT code for WoS article

000434283600007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045060612