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September 26, 2024Journal of Entomological Science

Spider Assemblages and Diversity in Rice–Crab Cocropping Production Fields1

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XMXiaohui MaLGLi GuoZLZhiqiang Li

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Field survey reveals higher spider abundance with stable community diversity in rice–crab cocropping paddies, indicating that crab farming does not disrupt natural arachnid assemblages.

Key Points

  • Spider abundance increased significantly in rice–crab cocropping fields compared with conventional paddies, while overall species composition remained unaltered.
  • A collection of 3,406 spiders revealed that Pirata subpiraticus predominated across both production systems, with family distributions showing no significant shifts.
  • Assessment of spider community diversity using the Shannon–Wiener diversity index confirmed that crab introduction maintains healthy predatory assemblages in rice fields.

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Ma et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e57542b6db6435875158fehttps://doi.org/10.18474/jes24-48
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