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DOI	10.3390/insects13010101
	Five-Year Monitoring of a Desert Burrow-Dwelling Spider Following an Environmental Disaster Indicates Long-Term Impacts
	Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Armiach Steinpress, Igor; Salman, Ibrahim N. A.; Segev, Nitzan; Uzan, Assaf; Byun, Yebin; Levy, Tanya; Aharon, Shlomi; Zvik, Yoram; Shtuhin, Raisa; Shapira, Yotam; Majer, Marija; Ganem, Zeana; Zonstein, Sergei; Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Lubin, Yael
通讯作者	Gavish-Regev, E (corresponding author)，Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Natl Nat Hist Collect, Edmond J Safra Campus, IL-9190401 Jerusalem, Israel.
来源期刊	INSECTS
EISSN	2075-4450
出版年	2022
卷号	13 期号:1
英文摘要	Simple Summary Deserts are characterized by unpredictable precipitation, extreme temperatures, and plants and animals that are specialized to live in these habitats. Consequently, desert organisms often recover slowly, if at all, from human-induced environmental disasters. We studied the effects of two nearby oil spills from a broken pipeline, one that occurred in 1975 and another recent one in 2014, on a burrow-dwelling spider in the extreme desert of the 'Arava valley (Israel). We compared the abundance of spider burrows in plots contaminated by the oil with nearby unaffected plots over a 4-year period. The abundance was significantly lower in plots with oil-contaminated soil, both in the recent (2014) oil spill area and in the area affected by the 1975 spill. In the laboratory, we found that when offered oil-contaminated versus clean desert soil substrates, spiders chose the clean soil substrate. We conclude that the populations of this burrow-dwelling spider were affected negatively by the oil spills and, furthermore, showed long-lasting impacts from a 40-year-old spill. We propose that burrow-dwelling spiders can be used as effective bioindicators of persistent soil pollution in desert habitats. Deserts are characterized by unpredictable precipitation and extreme temperatures. Their fauna and flora are sensitive to anthropogenic environmental changes, and often recover slowly from environmental disasters. The effects of oil spills on the biota of desert regions, however, have scarcely been studied. We predicted that terrestrial invertebrates suffer long-term negative effects from an oil spill, due to their close association with the substrate. Thus, we investigated the effects of two oil spills that occurred in 1975 and 2014 in the hyper-arid 'Arava desert (Israel), on a spider that constructs silk-lined nests in burrows in compact, sandy soil in this extreme desert habitat. The spider, Sahastata aravaensis sp. nov. (Filistatidae), is described herein. We assessed spider burrow abundance in plots located in oil-contaminated and nearby uncontaminated clean soil (control) areas over five consecutive years and measured habitat characteristics in these plots. In the laboratory, we determined the preference of individuals for clean vs. oil-contaminated soil as a resting substrate. Finally, as this species was previously undescribed, we added a new species description. The abundance of Sahastata was significantly lower in oil-contaminated plots, and this was the case in the 40-year-old oil spill (1975) as well as in the recent one (2014). In laboratory tests, spiders showed a significant preference for the clean soil substrate over the oil-contaminated substrate. In the field, soil crust hardness and vegetation density did not differ significantly between oil-contaminated and control plots, but these measures were highly variable. The burrows were significantly clustered, suggesting that the young disperse only short distances. In the laboratory adult spiders did not dig burrows, perhaps indicating that adults remain permanently in their natal burrows and that in the field they may use vacant burrows. We conclude that Sahastata populations were affected negatively by the oil spills and these effects were long-lasting. We propose that by monitoring their spatial distribution, burrow-dwelling spiders such as Sahastata can be used as effective bioindicators of soil pollution in desert habitats.
英文关键词	Araneae 'Avrona 'Arava valley bioindicator hyper-arid Filistatidae oil-spill Sahastata
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000747679500001
WOS关键词	ARANEAE ; RECOVERY ; CONTAMINATION ; DIVERSITY ; PETROLEUM
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS研究方向	Entomology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/376753
作者单位	[Gavish-Regev, Efrat; Armiach Steinpress, Igor; Uzan, Assaf; Byun, Yebin; Levy, Tanya; Aharon, Shlomi; Zvik, Yoram; Shtuhin, Raisa; Shapira, Yotam; Ganem, Zeana] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Natl Nat Hist Collect, Edmond J Safra Campus, IL-9190401 Jerusalem, Israel; [Armiach Steinpress, Igor; Aharon, Shlomi; Zvik, Yoram; Ganem, Zeana] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Ecol Evolut & Behav, Edmond J Safra Campus, IL-9190401 Jerusalem, Israel; [Salman, Ibrahim N. A.] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Jacob Blaustein Inst Desert Res, French Associates Inst Agr & Biotechnol Drylands, Sede Boqer Campus, IL-8499000 Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel; [Salman, Ibrahim N. A.; Majer, Marija; Lubin, Yael] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Mitrani Dept Desert Ecol, IL-8499000 Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel; [Segev, Nitzan] Dead Sea & Arava Sci Ctr, IL-8882000 Yotvata, Israel; [Zvik, Yoram] Scorp Res Lab, Hoopoe Ornithol & Ecol, IL-8051875 Yeroham, Israel; [Zonstein, Sergei] Tel Aviv Univ, Steinhardt Museum Nat Hist, 12 Klausner St, IL-6139001 Tel Aviv, Israe...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gavish-Regev, Efrat,Armiach Steinpress, Igor,Salman, Ibrahim N. A.,et al. Five-Year Monitoring of a Desert Burrow-Dwelling Spider Following an Environmental Disaster Indicates Long-Term Impacts[J],2022,13(1).
APA	Gavish-Regev, Efrat.,Armiach Steinpress, Igor.,Salman, Ibrahim N. A..,Segev, Nitzan.,Uzan, Assaf.,...&Lubin, Yael.(2022).Five-Year Monitoring of a Desert Burrow-Dwelling Spider Following an Environmental Disaster Indicates Long-Term Impacts.INSECTS,13(1).
MLA	Gavish-Regev, Efrat,et al."Five-Year Monitoring of a Desert Burrow-Dwelling Spider Following an Environmental Disaster Indicates Long-Term Impacts".INSECTS 13.1(2022).