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Contributions to Natural History : Scientific Papers from the Natural History Museum Bern

Volume - (2008)
Front matter _
Preface: Preface 5
Table of Contents 9
Article: Spider coenoses in strict forest reserves in Hesse (Germany) 11
Article: New findings on the courtship behaviour of Pardosa wagleri (Hahn, 1822) and P. saturatior Simon, 1937 (Araneae, Lycosidae), a pair of sibling species 31
Article: Patterns of distribution and diversity in European mygalomorph spiders 41
Article: Crab spiders, tree canopy, and biodiversity in tropical East Asia (Araneae: Thomisidae) 51
Article: A new opilioacarid mite in Baltic amber 59
Article: Influence of space, vegetation structure, and microclimate on spider (Araneae) species composition in Terai Conservation Area, India 71
Article: Spiders as potential biological controllers in apple orchards infested by Cydia spp. (Lepidoptera: Torticidae) 79
Article: Ecology an distribution of the genus Troglohyphantes Joseph, 1881 in the Western Italian Alps 89
Article: Arachnology in Finland. 1. From Laxmann to Palmgren 99
Article: Carl Clerck and what became of his spiders and their names 105
Article: Value of the aphid Hyalopterus pruni as food for the spider Clubiona phragmitis 119
Article: Araneofauna of the Mediterranean island of Vis (Croatia) 125
Article: Influence of scrub encorachment and rank vegetation development on the epigeic spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of dry meadows in the "Untere Lobau" (National Park Donau-Auen, Vienna, Austria) 129
Article: Aerial dispersal of spiders in central east Germany : modelling of meteorological and seasonal parameters 147
Article: Short- and longer-term colonization of alfalfa by spiders - a case study into the succession of perennial fields 153
Article: African and Southeast Asian elements in the spider fauna of the Western Ghats of India 165