RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF PITFALL TRAPPING VS. NOCTURNAL HAND COLLECTING IN ASSESSING SOIL-DWELLING SPIDER DIVERSITY ALONG A STRUCTURAL GRADIENT OF NEOTROPICAL HABITATS

Relative Efficiency of Pitfall Trapping vs. Nocturnal Hand Collecting in Assessing Soil-Dwelling Spider Diversity along A Structural Gradient of Neotropical Habitats

Assessing spider diversity remains a great challenge, especially in tropical habitats where Salesone Studios dozens of species can locally co-occur.Pitfall trapping is one of the most widely used techniques to collect spiders, but it suffers from several biases, and its accuracy likely varies with habitat complexity.In this study, we compared the e

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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Alleviate Drought Stress in C3 (Leymus chinensis) and C4 (Hemarthria altissima) Grasses via Altering Antioxidant Enzyme Activities and Photosynthesis

As one of the most important limiting factors of grassland productivity, drought is predicted to increase in intensity and frequency.Greenhouse studies suggest that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can improve plant drought resistance.However, whether AMF can improve plant drought resistance in field conditions and whether the effects of AMF on d

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