Spider Nutrition: An Integrative Perspective

摘要: Abstract Spiders represent a diverse, widespread and abundant group of carnivores. Studying the nutritional ecology spiders is critical because it can aid in understanding evolution prey capture life history strategies, factors regulating abundance diversity particular habitats role arthropod community dynamics including biological control crop pests. The feeding habits have long attracted attention biologists, part, many build webs are relatively easy to observe. While these studies provided wealth information on types captured, they yielded little quantities nutrients ingested by nature. Relatively also known about requirements spiders, although recent using more controlled manipulations nutrient content beginning provide clearer needed maximize performance. There tremendous opportunity rapidly advance our spider nutrition, given strong foundation natural history, behaviour, physiology advances analytical techniques frameworks for studying nutrition. Studies focusing connections between how this affected affects communities may produce particularly exciting results.