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The emergence of manipulative experiments in ecological spider research (1684-1973).

From: Journal of Arachnology  |  Date: 9/1/2005  |  Author: Bell, James R.

ABSTRACT. The history of spider ecology is discussed from its early beginnings in 1684 when the natural historian Martin Lister published his observations, to the post-war period up until 1973 when ecological spider research gathered momentum. While there have been many important observations since Lister, spider ecology appeared explicitly in the titles of papers only after the turn of the 20th century. However, much of what was published up until the 1950s is of little scientific ...

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