Project Planning: ================ Spider World - simulation of the effect of spiders as early colonizers of barren and newly emerged territory on the nutrients - spiders as wind-blown predators that either catch prey and survive, enriching the terrain a lot, or dying, and enritching it just alittle bit. - in-blown prey (~ eg various diptera) - prey start to generate in habitat at certain nutrient levels? - cannibalism important factor - - Sources: ------- - Hodkinson, I.D., Coulson, S.J., Harrison, J. & Webb, N.R. 2001. What a wonderful web they weave: spiders, nutrient capture and early ecosystem development in the high Arctic - some counter-intuitive ideas on community assembly. 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950217.x