Arachnids (Araneae, Opiliones) from grass stand and forest litter in the Urals, Russia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since the late 1980s, long-term monitoring of various components of natural ecosystems under conditions of industrial pollution has been carried out in the Central Urals. In the mid-2000s, similar programmes were started in the Southern Urals. As a part of these monitoring programmes, the data on invertebrates in different types of biotopes, collected with different methods and in a different time intervals, continue to be gathered. Amongst the most well-studied groups of invertebrates are spiders and harvestmen whose communities are a convenient indicator of the environment. The data collected through these monitoring programmes can also be used to study natural local biodiversity.

New information

The dataset, presented here, includes information from a long-term

SUBMITTER: Nesterkov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7561609 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature