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An estimated 400–800 million tons of prey are annually killed by the global spider community

Spiders have been suspected to be one of the most important groups of natural enemies of insects worldwide. To document the impact of the global spider community as insect predators, we present estimates of the biomass of annually killed insect prey. Our estimates assessed with two different methods...

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Autores principales: Nyffeler, Martin, Birkhofer, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5348567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28289774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-017-1440-1