TY - JOUR
T1 - The World Spider Trait database
T2 - a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits
AU - Pekár, Stano
AU - Wolff, Jonas O.
AU - Černecká, L'udmila
AU - Birkhofer, Klaus
AU - Mammola, Stefano
AU - Lowe, Elizabeth C.
AU - Fukushima, Caroline S.
AU - Herberstein, Marie E.
AU - Kučera, Adam
AU - Buzatto, Bruno A.
AU - Djoudi, El Aziz
AU - Domenech, Marc
AU - Enciso, Alison Vanesa
AU - Pinanez Espejo, Yolanda M.G.
AU - Febles, Sara
AU - Garcia, Luis F.
AU - Goncalves-Souza, Thiago
AU - Isaia, Marco
AU - Lafage, Denis
AU - Líznarová, Eva
AU - Macias-Hernández, Nuria
AU - Magalhaes, Ivan
AU - Malumbres-Olarte, Jagoba
AU - Michálek, Ondřej
AU - Michalik, Peter
AU - Michalko, Radek
AU - Milano, Filippo
AU - Munevar, Ana
AU - Nentwig, Wolfgang
AU - Nicolosi, Giuseppe
AU - Painting, Christina J.
AU - Petillon, Julien
AU - Piano, Elena
AU - Privet, Kaina
AU - Ramirez, Martin J.
AU - Ramos, Candida
AU - Řezáč, Milan
AU - Ridel, Aurelien
AU - Růžička, Vlastimil
AU - Santos, Irene
AU - Sentenská, Lenka
AU - Walker, Leilani
AU - Wierucka, Kaja
AU - Zurita, Gustavo Andres
AU - Cardoso, Pedro
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Spiders are a highly diversified group of arthropods and play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems as ubiquitous predators, which makes them a suitable group to test a variety of eco-evolutionary hypotheses. For this purpose, knowledge of a diverse range of species traits is required. Until now, data on spider traits have been scattered across thousands of publications produced for over two centuries and written in diverse languages. To facilitate access to such data, we developed an online database for archiving and accessing spider traits at a global scale. The database has been designed to accommodate a great variety of traits (e.g. ecological, behavioural and morphological) measured at individual, species or higher taxonomic levels. Records are accompanied by extensive metadata (e.g. location and method). The database is curated by an expert team, regularly updated and open to any user. A future goal of the growing database is to include all published and unpublished data on spider traits provided by experts worldwide and to facilitate broad cross-taxon assays in functional ecology and comparative biology.
AB - Spiders are a highly diversified group of arthropods and play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems as ubiquitous predators, which makes them a suitable group to test a variety of eco-evolutionary hypotheses. For this purpose, knowledge of a diverse range of species traits is required. Until now, data on spider traits have been scattered across thousands of publications produced for over two centuries and written in diverse languages. To facilitate access to such data, we developed an online database for archiving and accessing spider traits at a global scale. The database has been designed to accommodate a great variety of traits (e.g. ecological, behavioural and morphological) measured at individual, species or higher taxonomic levels. Records are accompanied by extensive metadata (e.g. location and method). The database is curated by an expert team, regularly updated and open to any user. A future goal of the growing database is to include all published and unpublished data on spider traits provided by experts worldwide and to facilitate broad cross-taxon assays in functional ecology and comparative biology.
KW - spiders
KW - ubiquitous predators
KW - eco-evolutionary dynamics
KW - species traits
KW - spider traits
KW - arachnids
KW - Functional ecology
KW - Comparative biology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117893876&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DE190101338
U2 - 10.1093/database/baab064
DO - 10.1093/database/baab064
M3 - Article
C2 - 34651181
AN - SCOPUS:85117893876
VL - 2021
JO - Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and curation
JF - Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and curation
SN - 1758-0463
M1 - baab064
ER -