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Non-crop habitats in the landscape enhance spider diversity in wheat fields of a desert agroecosystem

Pluess, Therese ; Opatovsky, Itai ; Gavish-Regev, Efrat ; Lubin, Yael ; Schmidt-Entling, Martin H.

In: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2010, p. -

Spiders (Araneae) are an important group of generalist predators in arable land. In temperate climates, spiders recolonise cropland annually from the surrounding landscape. In arid climates however, irrigated crops and the surrounding landscape matrix offer sharply different habitat conditions and this might negatively affect spider migration into crops. We studied whether the spider fauna in...