Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae)

Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae)

Stefano Mammola (1, 2) , Pedro Cardoso (2) , Dorottya Angyal (3, 4) , Gergely Balázs (5) , Theo Blick (6) , Hervé Brustel (7, 8) , Julian Carter (9) , Samuel Danflous (10) , László Dányi (3) , Sylvain Dejean (10) , Christo Deltshev (11) , Mert Elverici (12) , Jon Fernández (13, 6) , Fulvio Gasparo (14) , Marjan Komnenov (6) , Christian Komposch (15) , L’ubomír Kováč (16) , Kadir Kunt (17) , Andrej Mock (16) , Oana Moldovan (18) , Maria Naumova (19) , Martina Pavlek (20) , Carlos Prieto (21, 22) , Carles Ribera (23, 13) , Robert Rozwałka (24, 25) , Vlastimil Růžička (26) , Robert Vargovitsh (27) , Stefan Zaenker (28) , Marco Isaia (29, 1)

1 UNITO - Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin
2 LUOMUS - Finnish Museum of Natural History
3 Hungarian Natural History Museum (Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum)
4 UNAM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico
5 Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology
6 Independent Researcher
7 DYNAFOR - Dynamiques Forestières dans l'Espace Rural
8 INP - PURPAN - Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan
9 National Museum of Wales - Cardiff
10 Conservatoire d'Espaces Naturels Midi-Pyrénées - CEN MP (FRANCE)
11 National Museum of Natural History [Sofia]
12 AYBU - Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
13 University of Barcelona
14 Società Alpina delle Giulie
15 Institut für Tierökologie und Naturbildung
16 Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
17 Eskisehir Osmangazi University
18 Institute of Speleology
19 Institut Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
20 Croatian Biospelological Society
21 Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Research Group
22 UPV / EHU - University of the Basque Country = Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
23 Animal Cell Biology
24 UMCS - Zakład Zoologii
25 UKSW - Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
26 Institute of Entomology
27 NASU / НАН України - National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine = Національна академія наук України = Académie nationale des sciences d'Ukraine
28 University of Applied Sciences [Fulda]
29 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology [University of Turin]

Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) are widespread in subterranean ecosystems worldwide and represent an important component of subterranean trophic webs. Yet, global-scale diversity patterns of subterranean spiders are still mostly unknown. In the frame of the CAWEB project, a European joint network of cave arachnologists, we collected data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe in order to explore their continental diversity patterns. Two main datasets were compiled: one listing all subterranean spider species recorded in numerous subterranean localities across Europe and another with high resolution data about the subterranean habitat in which they were collected. From these two datasets, we further generated a third dataset with individual geo-referenced occurrence records for all these species.

Mots clés: troglobiont; troglophile; subterranean biology; Araneae; cave; Europe; spiders

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Stefano Mammola, Pedro Cardoso, Dorottya Angyal, Gergely Balázs, Theo Blick, et al.. Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae). Biodiversity Data Journal, 2019, 7 (Online), ⟨10.3897/BDJ.7.e38492⟩. ⟨hal-02571069⟩