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A comparative study of spider (Araneae) communities of rehabilitated bauxite mines and surrounding forest in the south west of Western Australia

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Majer, Jonathan
Simmonds, S. J.
Nichols, O. G.
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1994
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Simmonds, S. J., J. D. Majer & O. G. Nichols (1994). A comparative study of spider (Araneae) communities of rehabilitated bauxite mines and surrounding forest in the south west of Western Australia. Restoration Ecology, 2, 247-260.
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School of Agriculture and Environment
Department of Environmental Biology
Faculty of Science and Engineering
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A study of spider (Araneae) communities was conducted in rehabilitated bauxite mines at the Jarrahdale mine site of Alcoa of Australia Ltd. and in the nearby native jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest in southwest Western Australia. The study was conducted from March to August 1993 in five rehabilitated sites of different age and method of rehabilitation and in two forest sites. A variety of collection methods was used, including pitfall trapping, litter sampling, sweep netting, tree beating, and visual searching. These methods were the same as those carried out in a previous study of some of these areas in 1983. We collected 151 spider species belonging to 102 genera and 34 families. We examined the relationship between various habitat features, including the age and method of rehabilitation, of the spider communities present. It was found that leaf litter depth and cover and vegetation density had a significant positive influence on recolonization by the various spider guilds.