Eur. J. Entomol. 117: 18-26, 2020 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2020.002

Taxonomic and functional differentiation of spiders in habitats in a traditional olive producing landscape in ItalyOriginal article

Malayka S. PICCHI1, Gionata BOCCI1, Ruggero PETACCHI1, Martin H. ENTLING2
1 Biolabs, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127, Pisa, Italy; e-mails: m.picchi@santannapisa.it, boccigionata@gmail.com, r.petacchi@santannapisa.it
2 Institute for Environmental Sciences, Universität Koblenz - Landau, Fortstrasse 7, 76828, Landau, Germany; e-mail: entling@uni-landau.de

Annual crops are generally assumed to host simplified arthropod communities that depend on immigration from the surrounding landscape. Perennial, low-input crops such as olive groves are likely to depend less on immigration from other habitats, however, studies on the landscape ecology of perennial crops are scarce. This paper studies the assemblages of arboreal spiders in three types of habitats adjoining olive groves: woods, garigue and other cultivated olive groves in a traditional olive producing landscape. Spiders were sampled during summer and the three types of habitats were compared in terms of species, families and functional groups in order to determine differences in diversity and the potential for spider spillover. As is often reported for annual crops, olive groves had a lower alpha and beta diversity than more natural habitats in terms of species, with a strong dominance of a single species, Frontinellina frutetorum (C.L. Koch, 1834). Differences in diversity between olive groves and natural habitats were not significant at family or functional group levels. With the possible exception of orb weavers, this study indicates that the spiders that were common in olive groves did not occur at higher densities in habitats that were more natural. This indicates there is limited spillover between perennial crops and other late-successional habitats. The enhancement of spiders in olive orchards for pest control may thus depend more on local management than on the presence of semi-natural habitats as a source of immigration.

Keywords: Araneae, spider communities, perennial crop, semi-natural habitat, low-input management, beta diversity, edge

Received: July 22, 2019; Accepted: December 9, 2019; Published online: January 22, 2020  Show citation

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