The World Spider Trait database: a centralised global open repository for curated data on spider traits

0546780 - BC 2022 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Pekár, S. - Wolff, J. O. - Černecká, Ľ. - Birkhofer, K. - Mammola, S. - Lowe, E. C. - Fukushima, C. S. - Herbestein, M. E. - Kučera, A. - Buzzatto, B. A. - Djoudi, E. A. - Domenech, M. - Enciso, A. V. - Pinanez Espejo, Y. M. G. - Febles, S. - García, L. F. - Gonçalves-Souza, T. - Isaia, M. - Lafage, D. - Líznarová, E. - Macías-Hernández, N. - Magalhaes, I. - Malumbres-Olarte, J. - Michálek, O. - Michalik, P. - Michalko, R. - Milano, F. - Munévar, A. - Nentwig, W. - Nicolosi, G. - Painting, C. J. - Pétillon, J. - Piano, E. - Privet, K. - Ramírez, M. J. - Ramos, C. - Řezáč, M. - Ridel, A. - Růžička, Vlastimil - Santos, I. - Sentenská, L. - Walker, L. - Wierucka, K. - Zurita, G. A. - Cardoso, P.
The World Spider Trait database: a centralised global open repository for curated data on spider traits.
Database - The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. Roč. 2021, OCT 20 (2021), č. článku baab064. ISSN 1758-0463. E-ISSN 1758-0463
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : Araneae * ecological * behavioural and morphological characteristics
OECD category: Zoology
Impact factor: 4.462, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access
https://academic.oup.com/database/article-pdf/doi/10.1093/database/baab064/40759987/baab064.pdf

Spiders are a highly diversified group of arthropods and play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems as ubiquitous predators, which makes them a suitable group to test a variety of eco-evolutionary hypotheses. For this purpose, knowledge of a diverse range of species traits is required. Until now, data on spider traits have been scattered across thousands of publications produced for over two centuries and written in diverse languages. To facilitate access to such data, we developed an online database for archiving and accessing spider traits at a global scale. The database has been designed to accommodate a great variety of traits (e.g. ecological, behavioural and morphological) measured at individual, species or higher taxonomic levels. Records are accompanied by extensive metadata (e.g. location and method). The database is curated by an expert team, regularly updated and open to any user. A future goal of the growing database is to include all published and unpublished data on spider traits provided by experts worldwide and to facilitate broad cross-taxon assays in functional ecology and comparative biology.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0330181