The study of hidden habitats sheds light on poorly known taxa: spiders of the Mesovoid Shallow Substratum.

ABSTRACT: The scarce and biased knowledge about the diversity and distribution of Araneae species in the Iberian Peninsula is accentuated in poorly known habitats such as the Mesovoid Shallow Substratum (MSS). The aim of this study was to characterize the spiders inventory of the colluvial MSS of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, and to assess the importance of this habitat for the conservation of the taxon. Thirty-three localities were selected across the high peaks of the Guadarrama mountain range and they were sampled for a year using subterranean traps specially designed to capture arthropods in the MSS. Species accumulation curves were built both for the observed species richness and for the non-parametric richness estimators. The literature was reviewed in order to update the distributio

SUBMITTER: Ledesma E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6495052 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature