Publication details
Differences in spider species diversity on grapevine plants on terraced and plain vineyards depending on the type of management
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | MENDELNET 2014 |
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| Web | https://mnet.mendelu.cz/mendelnet2014/articles/52_havlova_952.pdf?id=952&file=52_havlova_952.pdf |
| Keywords | biodiversity; araneae; vineyard |
| Description | In recent years, agricultural ecosystems are considered as very problematic habitats with respect to biodiversity, and this trend is continuously decreasing, however, some agroecosystems, especially some types of vineyard, can host remarkable species and contain a high diversity of invertebrate fauna, comparable with areas under nature protection. The aim of this study was to focus on two types of vineyards: terraced and non-terraced (plain) vineyards, and investigated of araneofauna living on plants of vine grapes. The study analyses spider species spectrum and spider abundance on the grape vine plants. The spectrum of spiders found is relatively poor; the most common spiders were: Synageles venator (Lucas, 1836), Salticus zebraneus (C. L. Koch, 1837), Nuctenea umbratica (Clerck, 1757), Dictyna uncinata (Thorell, 1856), Dictyna arundinacea (Linnaeus, 1758), Micaria subopaca (Westring, 1861), Marpissa nivoyi (Lucas, 1846), Agalenaetea redii (Scopoli, 1763), but we were not able to identify juveniles up to the specific level (710 specimens). It can be assumed, that some of the observed species and their presence can affect the incidence of grapevine pests significantly. Several interesting species observation were also made (e.g. common occurrence of Synageles venator). |