Comments for Caucasian Spiders

Comment on Spider Habitats by Stefan Otto

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:13:42 +0000

Spiders are very rare at such high altitudes, due to the harsh conditions in the nival zone. If such caves are stable over longer time periods (years), we might find spiders there, yes! Some high mountain species are even especially adapted to life in the nival zones. Those are interesting and hardly studied species.

Comment on New literature by Stefan Otto

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:10:49 +0000

Whether spiders occur at such high altitudes depends on the conditions there. There are only few spiders on pure ice and snow shields, possibly after landing after dispersal in the air on silk threads. If there’s no snow, spiders might find suitable conditions for living between rocks or plants.

Comment on New literature by Gail Law

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:05:22 +0000

Mr. Stefan Otto,

Do you know if spiders exist in Mt. Arart in Turkey at 4,000 meter altitude or above?

Comment on Spider Habitats by Gail Law

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:49:29 +0000

Question: Do spiders exist in Mt. Ararat in Turkey at above 4000 meters?

Comment on Spider Habitats by Don Wooldridge

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:30:54 +0000

Are there ice-cave dwelling web spinning spiders in the nival zone, at approx. 4500m elevation and within deeper glacial ice caves? Possibly? Or not likely.

Thanks, and very interesting work! From 1978 through 1982 I researched wildlife, up in the Canadian Arctic, but on somewhat larger “predators”; polar bears!

Thanks!

Comment on Spider Habitats by Stefan Otto

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:23:29 +0000

Hi Hassan,
there is no quantitative analysis of the Caucasian spider fauna. What you can do for a rough estimate is to count numbers of records for each species from the checklist section. This should give you an idea about the relative proportions.

Comment on Spider Habitats by Hassan Mohammadian

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:04:14 +0000

A very exciting site . I would like to know the dominant species
( in terms of numbers ) in this region .Only a general list is
sufficient .
Hassan

Comment on Contact by Stefan Otto

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:29:41 +0000

Prima, Nudge! Fast hätte ich deinen Kommentar allerdings gelöscht, da in letzter Zeit viel Müll reinkommt und entsprechend viel mit Löschen beschäftigt bin.

Danke für diese positive Aus- und Aufnahme!

Comment on Contact by Nudge

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:35:19 +0000

Hi Steve, ich habe deine Seite mal in meinen Blogroll aufgenommen. Vielleicht gibts ja den ein oder anderen arachnophilen Linux-Fan - man weiß nie

Comment on Contact by robert bosmans

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:11:27 +0000

I have solved the problem, the paper is at the end of the other PDF. Sorry.

Greetings,

Robert