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References from Spider functional ecology in subtropical perennial orchards: Molecular diet profiling and microhabitat use in pomelo agroecosystems. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Comparison of different sampling methods and effect of pesticide application on spider populations in lime orchards in South Florida
10.1603/0046-225x-30.6.1021 · 2001 · External reference
Life history of Clubiona robusta L. Koch and related species (Araneae, Clubionidae) in South Australia
1984 · External reference
Tracing the evolution of trophic specialisation and mode of attack behaviour in the ground spider family Gnaphosidae
10.1007/s13127-020-00453-0 · 2020 · External reference
Farmland biodiversity: is habitat heterogeneity the key?
10.1016/s0169-5347(03)00011-9 · 2003 · External reference
Thrips (Thysanoptera: Terebrantia) on flowers and fruit of citrus in New Zealand
10.1080/01140671.1997.9514023 · 1997 · External reference
A meta-analysis of non-consumptive predator effects in arthropods: the influence of organismal and environmental characteristics
10.1111/oik.04384 · 2017 · External reference
Predation on blackmargined aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) by spiders on pecan
10.1016/1049-9644(92)90070-t · 1992 · External reference
DADA2: high-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
10.1038/nmeth.3869 · 2016 · External reference
Global patterns of guild composition and functional diversity of spiders
10.1371/journal.pone.0021710 · 2011 · External reference
Ecosystem services provided by spiders
10.1111/brv.70044 · 2025 · External reference
Effect of storage pattern and ventilation on the fruit quality of ‘Matou wentan’ in short-term storage
2016 · External reference
The strategies and cultivation management measures of changing a conventional orchard to organic farming practices - taking Binlang orchard, Taitung District agricultural research and Extension Station as an example
2018 · External reference
Metabarcoding reveals the dietary diversity and food web structure of spider functional guilds in a highly diverse subtropical forest
10.1007/s00442-026-05956-9 · 2026 · External reference
Studies on the production and marketing of wentan pomelo in Hualien area
1998 · External reference
Thysanoptera (thrips) within citrus orchards in Florida: species distribution, relative and seasonal abundance within trees, and species on vines and ground cover plants
10.1673/031.006.4501 · 2006 · External reference
Spider-ant associations: an updated review of myrmecomorphy, myrmecophily, and myrmecophagy in spiders
2012 · External reference
Does alternative food for predatory arthropods improve biological pest control? A meta-analysis
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2024.105605 · 2024 · External reference
Bioecology of Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus) (Araneae: Sparassidae) and its implications in a tropical banana agroecosystem
2016 · External reference
Brace yourselves, winter is coming: the winter activity, natural diet, and prey preference of winter-active spiders on pear trees
10.1007/s10340-023-01609-5 · 2024 · External reference
Organic farming promotes arthropod predators, but this depends on neighbouring patches of natural vegetation
10.1016/j.agee.2020.107295 · 2021 · External reference
Trophic cascades regulate arthropods density and plant damage across forest strata
10.1111/1365-2656.14181 · 2024 · External reference
Spider predation: how and why we study it
1999 · External reference
Identifying inter- and intra-guild feeding activity of an arthropod predator assemblage
10.1111/een.12014 · 2013 · External reference
More intraguild prey than pest species in arachnid diets may compromise biological control in apple orchards
10.1016/j.baae.2021.09.006 · 2021 · External reference
Scaling up our understanding of non-consumptive effects in insect systems
10.1016/j.cois.2017.03.010 · 2017 · External reference
The implications of intraguild predation for the role of spiders in biological control
1999 · External reference
iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (hill numbers)
10.1111/2041-210x.12613 · 2016 · External reference
Generalist predators function as pest specialists: examining the diet composition of spiders and ladybeetles across rice crop stages
10.1111/1365-2664.70066 · 2025 · External reference
High-throughput sequencing for community analysis: the promise of DNA barcoding to uncover diversity, relatedness, abundances and interactions in spider communities
10.1007/s00427-020-00652-x · 2020 · External reference
Spider predation on a mirid pest in Japanese rice fields
10.1016/j.baae.2011.07.007 · 2011 · External reference
A cost-efficient and simple protocol to enrich prey DNA from extractions of predatory arthropods for large-scale gut content analysis by Illumina sequencing
10.1111/2041-210x.12647 · 2017 · External reference
Spider predation on rosy apple aphid in conventional, organic and insecticide-free orchards and its impact on aphid populations
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.10.009 · 2017 · External reference
A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents
10.1186/1742-9994-10-34 · 2013 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2002 · External reference
Impacts of spatial clusters on certified organic farming in Taiwan
10.3390/su11092637 · 2019 · External reference
Maintaining spider biodiversity in agroecosystems as a tool in pest control
10.1016/s0167-8809(96)01133-4 · 1997 · External reference
Prey availability, pesticides and the abundance of orchard spider communities
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2008.10.002 · 2009 · External reference
COInr and mkCOInr: building and customizing a nonredundant barcoding reference database from BOLD and NCBI using a semi-automated pipeline
10.1111/1755-0998.13756 · 2023 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2026 · External reference
Beyond polyphagy and opportunism: natural prey of hunting spiders in the canopy of apple trees
10.7717/peerj.9334 · 2020 · External reference
The biocontrol potential of Philodromus (Araneae, Philodromidae) spiders for the suppression of pome fruit orchard pests
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2014.12.001 · 2015 · External reference
An updated perspective on spiders as generalist predators in biological control
10.1007/s00442-018-4313-1 · 2019 · External reference
Global patterns in the biocontrol efficacy of spiders: a meta-analysis
10.1111/geb.12927 · 2019 · External reference
Spider abundance and diversity in apple orchards under three insect pest management programmes in Washington state, USA
10.1046/j.1461-9563.2000.00067.x · 2000 · External reference
Spiders in Florida citrus groves
10.2307/3493385 · 1975 · External reference
Artificial shelters as dual-purpose tools for monitoring natural enemies and providing microhabitats in orchards
10.1002/ps.70489 · 2026 · External reference
Spiders in natural pest control: a review
10.1111/j.1439-0418.1987.tb00992.x · 1987 · External reference
An estimated 400–800 million tons of prey are annually killed by the global spider community
10.1007/s00114-017-1440-1 · 2017 · External reference
The southern black widow spider, Latrodectus mactans (Araneae, Theridiidae), as a predator of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), in Texas cotton fields
10.1111/j.1439-0418.1988.tb00563.x · 1988 · External reference
Control of aphids on wheat by generalist predators: effects of predator density and the presence of alternative prey
10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00876.x · 2009 · External reference
Identification and evaluation of potential predators of the citrus rust mite, Phyllocoptruta oleivora, in Israel
2003 · External reference
Webs, diet, and fecundity of Theridion impressum (Araneae: Theridiidae)
10.14411/eje.2000.012 · 2000 · External reference
Intraguild predation among spiders and their effect on the pear psylla during winter
10.1016/j.agee.2016.08.008 · 2016 · External reference
The use of artificial habitats increases spider abundance and richness in a vineyard of Argentina
10.1007/s10526-020-10056-5 · 2021 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2025 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2025 · External reference
BOLD v4: A centralized bioinformatics platform for DNA-based biodiversity data
2024 · External reference
The hows and whys of successful pest suppression by spiders: insights from case studies
1999 · External reference
Test for predation effects of single versus multiple species of generalist predators: spiders and their insect prey
10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00209.x · 1997 · External reference
Spider silk reduces insect herbivory
10.1098/rsbl.2012.0948 · 2013 · External reference
Trunk refugia: a simple, inexpensive method for sampling tree trunk arthropods
10.1093/jisesa/ieaa012 · 2020 · External reference
Multiple factors at regional, landscape, and local scales determine spider assemblage composition in pomegranate orchards
10.3390/agriculture12040512 · 2022 · External reference
Scale-dependent dispersal and distribution patterns of spiders in agricultural systems: a review
1999 · External reference
Intraguild interactions between spiders and ants and top-down control in a grassland food web
10.1007/s00442-006-0538-5 · 2007 · External reference
Molecular gut content analysis indicates the inter-and intra-guild predation patterns of spiders in conventionally managed vegetable fields
10.1002/ece3.7772 · 2021 · External reference
DNA metabarcoding of gut contents reveals key habitat and seasonal drivers of trophic networks involving generalist predators in agricultural landscapes
10.1002/ps.7161 · 2022 · External reference
A better lemon squeezer? Maximum-likelihood regression with beta-distributed dependent variables
10.1037/1082-989x.11.1.54 · 2006 · External reference
Arthropod biodiversity in European crops: representative taxa for pest control and pollination
10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114080 · 2025 · External reference
Spider web DNA Metabarcoding provides improved insight into the prey capture ability of the web-building spider Tetragnatha keyserlingi Simon (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)
10.3390/agriculture15121235 · 2025 · External reference
Can generalist predators be effective biocontrol agents?
10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145240 · 2002 · External reference
DNA metabarcoding of spiders, insects, and springtails for exploring potential linkage between above-and below-ground food webs
10.1186/s40851-018-0088-9 · 2018 · External reference
Ecology of the true spiders (Araneomorphae)
10.1146/annurev.en.18.010173.001513 · 1973 · External reference
Prey-specific foraging tactics in a web-building spider
10.1111/afe.12023 · 2013 · External reference
Non-consumptive interactions between grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and wolf spiders (Lycosidae) produce trophic cascades in an old-field ecosystem
10.1665/034.024.0101 · 2015 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2026 · External reference
Rice field spiders in China: a review of the literature
10.1093/jee/tox319 · 2018 · External reference
A comparative analysis of spider prey spectra analyzed through the next-generation sequencing of individual and mixed DNA samples
10.1002/ece3.8252 · 2021 · External reference
Predatory behavior of Leucauge magnifica (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)
10.2476/asjaa.49.117 · 2000 · External reference
Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring
10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00198.x · 2012 · External reference
Landscape composition shapes biological control by promoting off-season predator diversity
10.1111/1365-2664.70210 · 2025 · External reference
Molecular gut content analysis indicates the inter-and intra-guild predation patterns of spiders in conventionally managed vegetable fields
10.1002/ece3.7772 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
A comparative analysis of spider prey spectra analyzed through the next-generation sequencing of individual and mixed DNA samples
10.1002/ece3.8252 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Artificial shelters as dual-purpose tools for monitoring natural enemies and providing microhabitats in orchards
10.1002/ps.70489 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
DNA metabarcoding of gut contents reveals key habitat and seasonal drivers of trophic networks involving generalist predators in agricultural landscapes
10.1002/ps.7161 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
An estimated 400–800 million tons of prey are annually killed by the global spider community
10.1007/s00114-017-1440-1 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
High-throughput sequencing for community analysis: the promise of DNA barcoding to uncover diversity, relatedness, abundances and interactions in spider communities
10.1007/s00427-020-00652-x · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Intraguild interactions between spiders and ants and top-down control in a grassland food web
10.1007/s00442-006-0538-5 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
An updated perspective on spiders as generalist predators in biological control
10.1007/s00442-018-4313-1 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Metabarcoding reveals the dietary diversity and food web structure of spider functional guilds in a highly diverse subtropical forest
10.1007/s00442-026-05956-9 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Brace yourselves, winter is coming: the winter activity, natural diet, and prey preference of winter-active spiders on pear trees
10.1007/s10340-023-01609-5 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
The use of artificial habitats increases spider abundance and richness in a vineyard of Argentina
10.1007/s10526-020-10056-5 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Tracing the evolution of trophic specialisation and mode of attack behaviour in the ground spider family Gnaphosidae
10.1007/s13127-020-00453-0 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Predation on blackmargined aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) by spiders on pecan
10.1016/1049-9644(92)90070-t · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Intraguild predation among spiders and their effect on the pear psylla during winter
10.1016/j.agee.2016.08.008 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Organic farming promotes arthropod predators, but this depends on neighbouring patches of natural vegetation
10.1016/j.agee.2020.107295 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Spider predation on a mirid pest in Japanese rice fields
10.1016/j.baae.2011.07.007 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
More intraguild prey than pest species in arachnid diets may compromise biological control in apple orchards
10.1016/j.baae.2021.09.006 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Prey availability, pesticides and the abundance of orchard spider communities
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2008.10.002 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
The biocontrol potential of Philodromus (Araneae, Philodromidae) spiders for the suppression of pome fruit orchard pests
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2014.12.001 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Spider predation on rosy apple aphid in conventional, organic and insecticide-free orchards and its impact on aphid populations
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.10.009 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Does alternative food for predatory arthropods improve biological pest control? A meta-analysis
10.1016/j.biocontrol.2024.105605 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Scaling up our understanding of non-consumptive effects in insect systems
10.1016/j.cois.2017.03.010 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Arthropod biodiversity in European crops: representative taxa for pest control and pollination
10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.114080 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Maintaining spider biodiversity in agroecosystems as a tool in pest control
10.1016/s0167-8809(96)01133-4 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Farmland biodiversity: is habitat heterogeneity the key?
10.1016/s0169-5347(03)00011-9 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
A better lemon squeezer? Maximum-likelihood regression with beta-distributed dependent variables
10.1037/1082-989x.11.1.54 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
DADA2: high-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
10.1038/nmeth.3869 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Spider abundance and diversity in apple orchards under three insect pest management programmes in Washington state, USA
10.1046/j.1461-9563.2000.00067.x · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Test for predation effects of single versus multiple species of generalist predators: spiders and their insect prey
10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00209.x · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Thrips (Thysanoptera: Terebrantia) on flowers and fruit of citrus in New Zealand
10.1080/01140671.1997.9514023 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Rice field spiders in China: a review of the literature
10.1093/jee/tox319 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Trunk refugia: a simple, inexpensive method for sampling tree trunk arthropods
10.1093/jisesa/ieaa012 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Spider silk reduces insect herbivory
10.1098/rsbl.2012.0948 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Trophic cascades regulate arthropods density and plant damage across forest strata
10.1111/1365-2656.14181 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Generalist predators function as pest specialists: examining the diet composition of spiders and ladybeetles across rice crop stages
10.1111/1365-2664.70066 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Landscape composition shapes biological control by promoting off-season predator diversity
10.1111/1365-2664.70210 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
COInr and mkCOInr: building and customizing a nonredundant barcoding reference database from BOLD and NCBI using a semi-automated pipeline
10.1111/1755-0998.13756 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (hill numbers)
10.1111/2041-210x.12613 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
A cost-efficient and simple protocol to enrich prey DNA from extractions of predatory arthropods for large-scale gut content analysis by Illumina sequencing
10.1111/2041-210x.12647 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Prey-specific foraging tactics in a web-building spider
10.1111/afe.12023 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Ecosystem services provided by spiders
10.1111/brv.70044 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Identifying inter- and intra-guild feeding activity of an arthropod predator assemblage
10.1111/een.12014 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Global patterns in the biocontrol efficacy of spiders: a meta-analysis
10.1111/geb.12927 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Spiders in natural pest control: a review
10.1111/j.1439-0418.1987.tb00992.x · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
The southern black widow spider, Latrodectus mactans (Araneae, Theridiidae), as a predator of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), in Texas cotton fields
10.1111/j.1439-0418.1988.tb00563.x · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Control of aphids on wheat by generalist predators: effects of predator density and the presence of alternative prey
10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00876.x · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring
10.1111/j.2041-210x.2012.00198.x · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
A meta-analysis of non-consumptive predator effects in arthropods: the influence of organismal and environmental characteristics
10.1111/oik.04384 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Ecology of the true spiders (Araneomorphae)
10.1146/annurev.en.18.010173.001513 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Can generalist predators be effective biocontrol agents?
10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145240 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents
10.1186/1742-9994-10-34 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
DNA metabarcoding of spiders, insects, and springtails for exploring potential linkage between above-and below-ground food webs
10.1186/s40851-018-0088-9 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Global patterns of guild composition and functional diversity of spiders
10.1371/journal.pone.0021710 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Webs, diet, and fecundity of Theridion impressum (Araneae: Theridiidae)
10.14411/eje.2000.012 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Comparison of different sampling methods and effect of pesticide application on spider populations in lime orchards in South Florida
10.1603/0046-225x-30.6.1021 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Non-consumptive interactions between grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and wolf spiders (Lycosidae) produce trophic cascades in an old-field ecosystem
10.1665/034.024.0101 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Thysanoptera (thrips) within citrus orchards in Florida: species distribution, relative and seasonal abundance within trees, and species on vines and ground cover plants
10.1673/031.006.4501 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Spiders in Florida citrus groves
10.2307/3493385 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Predatory behavior of Leucauge magnifica (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)
10.2476/asjaa.49.117 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Multiple factors at regional, landscape, and local scales determine spider assemblage composition in pomegranate orchards
10.3390/agriculture12040512 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Spider web DNA Metabarcoding provides improved insight into the prey capture ability of the web-building spider Tetragnatha keyserlingi Simon (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)
10.3390/agriculture15121235 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Impacts of spatial clusters on certified organic farming in Taiwan
10.3390/su11092637 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
Beyond polyphagy and opportunism: natural prey of hunting spiders in the canopy of apple trees
10.7717/peerj.9334 · ExternalCitation · doi-reference
