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Circumpolar terrestrial arthropod monitoring: A review of ongoing activities, opportunities and challenges, with a focus on spiders

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The terrestrial chapter of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) has the potential to bring international multi-taxon, long-term monitoring together, but detailed fundamental species information for Arctic arthropods lags far behind that for vertebrates and plants. In this paper, we demonstrate this major challenge to the CBMP by focussing on spiders (Order: Araneae) as an example group. We collate available circumpolar data on the distribution of spiders and highlight the current monitoring opportunities and identify the key knowledge gaps to address before monitoring can become efficient. We found spider data to be more complete than data for other taxa, but still variable in quality and availability between Arctic regions, highlighting the need for greater international co-operation for baseline studies and data sharing. There is also a dearth of long-term datasets for spiders and other arthropod groups from which to assess status and trends of biodiversity. Therefore, baseline studies should be conducted at all monitoring stations and we make recommendations for the development of the CBMP in relation to terrestrial arthropods more generally.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Jukka Salmela for invaluable work during the initial phases of this study and Chris Buddle for early contributions to the CBMPs Invertebrate Expert Committee. Mikhail Kozlov, Armin Namayandeh, the special issue editor and two anonymous reviewers are also thanked for useful input. Thanks also to Hólmgrímur Helgason for preparation of Figs. 1 and 2. P. Convey is supported by NERC core funding to the BAS ‘Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation’ Team.

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  1. Department of Environmental Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal Campus, 6851, Sogndal, Norway

    Mark A. K. Gillespie

  2. The Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Urridaholtsstraeti 6–8, 210, Gardabaer, Iceland

    Matthias Alfredsson

  3. Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Isabel C. Barrio

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  5. Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, Bldg. 1540, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark

    Joe Bowden & Toke T. Høye

  6. British Antarctic Survey, NERC, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK

    Peter Convey

  7. Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden

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    Seppo Koponen

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Gillespie, M.A.K., Alfredsson, M., Barrio, I.C. et al. Circumpolar terrestrial arthropod monitoring: A review of ongoing activities, opportunities and challenges, with a focus on spiders. Ambio 49, 704–717 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01185-y

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