Arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of Mountain Summits of the South Urals ...

• Main Authors: Mikhailov, Yuri, Ermakov, Aleksander, Esyunin, Sergey, Sozontov, Artem
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE) 2024
• Subjects: harvestmen; Alpine tundra; South Urals; spiders; alpine biodiversity; Dal’niy; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/56esv5; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5a47109d-1b41-4153-8bac-6210f2055163

The dataset contains data on the occurrence (734 records) of arachnids – spiders and harvestmen (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the South Urals. Main material comes from purposeful collection in four mountain summits Dal’niy Taganai, Bol’shoi Nurgush, Malyi Iremel and Bol’shoi Iremel. All summits are the permanent monitoring sites of the international research network GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments) and are situated in the protected areas of the South Urals (Russia), respectively national parks Taganai and Zyuratkul in Chelyabinsk region and nature park Iremel in the Republic of Bashkortostan. The collecting was carried out in 2008, 2015–2016 and 2022–2023 by soil traps established on permanent sampling plots. Additional occurrences come from miscellaneous collections across South Urals mountains during 1980¬–2013. The dataset consists of 3126 specimen belonging to 154 species, 88 genera and 17 families. ...