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Spider Diversification Through Space and Time.
Annual review of entomology - 7 Jan 2021
Dimitrov Dimitar, Hormiga Gustavo
Abstract excerpt
Spiders (Araneae) make up a remarkably diverse lineage of predators that have successfully colonized most terrestrial ecosystems. All spiders produce silk, and many species use it to build capture webs with an extraordinary diversity of forms. Spider diversity is distributed in a highly uneven fashion across lineages. This strong imbalance in species richness has led to several causal hypotheses, such as...
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