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Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation.
- R. Colwell, J. Coddington
- Biology, Medicine
- Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society…
- 29 July 1994
Both the magnitude and the urgency of the task of assessing global biodiversity require that we make the most of what we know through the use of estimation and extrapolation. Likewise, future… Expand
Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae)
- J. Coddington, H. Levi
- Biology
- 1991
In the last 15 years understanding of the higher systematics of Araneae has changed greatly. Large classical superfamilies and families have turned out to be polyor paraphyletic; posited… Expand
Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea)
- C. Griswold, J. Coddington, G. Hormiga, N. Scharff
- Biology
- 1 May 1998
Abstract This phylogenetic analysis of 31 exemplar taxa treats the 12 families of Araneoidea (Anapidae, Araneidae, Cyatholipidae, Linyphiidae, Mysmenidae, Nesticidae, Pimoidae, Symphytognathidae,… Expand
Undersampling bias: the null hypothesis for singleton species in tropical arthropod surveys.
- J. Coddington, I. Agnarsson, J. Miller, Matjaž Kuntner, G. Hormiga
- Biology, Medicine
- The Journal of animal ecology
- 1 May 2009
1. Frequency of singletons - species represented by single individuals - is anomalously high in most large tropical arthropod surveys (average, 32%). 2. We sampled 5965 adult spiders of 352 species… Expand
Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny
- C. Griswold, M. Ramirez, J. Coddington, N. I. Platnick
- Biology
- 2005
2 Introduction 2 Taxon choice 3 Conventions 5 Materials and methods 5 Specimen preparation 6 Acknowledgments 7 Results 8 The Entelegyne exemplars 8 Agelenidae 8 Amaurobiidae 9 Amphinectidae 12… Expand
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Designing and Testing Sampling Protocols to Estimate Biodiversity in Tropical Ecosystems
- J. Coddington, C. Griswold, D. Silva, E. Peñaranda, S. F. Larcher
- Environmental Science
- 1991
Sampling methods to estimate total species richness of a defined area (conservation unit, national park, field station, "community") will play an important role in research on the global loss of… Expand
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A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae)
- N. Scharff, J. Coddington
- Biology
- 1 August 1997
We present the first cladistic analysis focused at the tribal and subfamily level of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae. The data matrix of 82 characters scored for 57 araneid genera of 6… Expand
The functional significance of silk decorations of orb‐web spiders: a critical review of the empirical evidence
- M. Herberstein, C. L. Craig, J. Coddington, M. Elgar
- Biology, Medicine
- Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical…
- 1 November 2000
A number of taxonomically diverse species of araneoid spiders adorn their orb‐webs with conspicuous silk structures, called decorations or stabilimenta. The function of these decorations remains… Expand
THE ANT FAUNA OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST: ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS THREE DIFFERENT WAYS
- J. Longino, J. Coddington, R. Colwell
- Geography
- 1 March 2002
Species richness is an important characteristic of ecological communities, but it is difficult to quantify. We report here a thorough inventory of a tropical rain forest ant fauna and use it to… Expand
The Monophyletic Origin of the Orb Web
- J. Coddington
- Biology
- 1986
TWO VENERABLE groups of spiders spin orb webs: the cnbellate Ulobondae, weavers of calamistrated sticky silk, and the ecribellate Araneidae, weavers of true viscid silk (Figs. 12.2, 12.1).… Expand
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