Adaptation and Survival of Marine-Associated Spiders (Araneae)

MA Leggett, CJ Vink, XJ Nelson - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Aquatic environments are an unusual habitat for most arthropods. Nevertheless, many
arthropod species that were once terrestrial dwelling have transitioned back to marine and …

Adaptations and predispositions of different Middle European arthropod taxa (Collembola, Araneae, Chilopoda, Diplopoda) to flooding and drought conditions

MT Marx, P Guhmann, P Decker - Animals, 2012 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review summarizes adaptations and predispositions of different
arthropod taxa (springtails, web spiders, millipedes and centipedes) to flood and drought …

The diving bell and the spider: the physical gill of Argyroneta aquatica

RS Seymour, SK Hetz - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
Argyroneta aquatica is a unique air-breathing spider that lives virtually its entire life under
freshwater. It creates a dome-shaped web between aquatic plants and fills the diving bell …

Record breaking achievements by spiders and the scientists who study them

S Mammola, P Michalik, EA Hebets, M Isaia - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Organismal biology has been steadily losing fashion in both formal education and scientific
research. Simultaneous with this is an observable decrease in the connection between …

Grazing management in saltmarsh ecosystems drives invertebrate diversity, abundance and functional group structure

H Ford, A Garbutt, L Jones… - Insect Conservation and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
1. Saltmarsh conservation management often involves livestock grazing to maximise plant
diversity and provide suitable breeding habitat for over‐wintering coastal birds. The effect of …

Relative importance of management and natural flooding on spider, carabid and plant assemblages in extensively used grasslands along the Loire

D Lafage, J Pétillon - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
In Europe, agri-environment schemes (AES) have been implemented to counteract the
effects of agricultural intensification. Studies investigating the role of management …

Tissue hypoxia during ischemic stroke: adaptive clues from hypoxia-tolerant animal models

TI Nathaniel, A Williams-Hernandez, AL Hunter… - Brain Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
The treatment and prevention of hypoxic/ischemic brain injury in stroke patients remain a
severe and global medical issue. Numerous clinical studies have resulted in a failure to …

Saline stress tolerance partly matches with habitat preference in ground‐living wolf spiders

J Petillon, K Lambeets… - Physiological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Salinity interacts with many physiological functions and therefore probably influences the
distribution of terrestrial fauna in tidal flooded salt marshes. The present study tests the …

Na+-K+-ATPase trafficking induced by heat shock pretreatment correlates with increased resistance to anoxia in locusts

N Hou, GAB Armstrong… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
The sensitivity of insect nervous systems to anoxia can be modulated genetically and
pharmacologically, but the cellular mechanisms responsible are poorly understood. We …

[PDF][PDF] Benthic and planktonic invertebrates of the Knysna Estuary

RSK Barnes, TH Wooldridge… - … Estuary—jewel of …, 2023 - steenboknaturereserve.org.za
As pointed out in Chapter 1, the invertebrates of the Knysna Estuary have been under
investigation since the late 1940s when Professor John Day and his colleagues Naomi …