Biodiversity of the Ground Spiders in Southern Area of Port Said Governorate, Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Biological and geological Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Suez Canal, Port-Said

2 Arachnid Collection of Egypt (ACE), Cairo, Egypt

3 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Suez Canal, Ismailia, Egypt

4 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, 41522 Ismailia, Egypt

Abstract

Ground spiders were sampled, by using pitfall traps, in a nested design from four different localities
in the southern area of Port Said Governorate, through 15 months (from July 2004 to September
2005). The localities represented three different human impact activities (industrial, animal rearing
and cultivated, in addition to control) through 15 months (from July 2004 to September 2005). Each
locality was represented by two separated sampling sites (20X20 meters), and each site had twenty
individual traps distributed systematically. Habitat characteristics and plant cover were clearly
different among the four localities and to a less extent within localities. Species diversity did not
significantly vary spatially; while it significantly varied temporally among the different localities
during the study period. Both cultivated and animal rearing sites showed the highest diversity; while
the industrial sites recorded the highest species richness. The different localities had distinct and
characteristic groups of species responding to habitat characters.

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