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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 253-260.doi: 10.13305/j.cnki.jts.2014.03.007

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Community Structure and Diversity of Spiders in Tea Plantations in Yingde Region of Guangdong

LI Jianlong1,2, LI Huashou2, LI Xiudi1, LIU Jie3, LI Jiaxian1, TANG Hao1, TANG Jingchi1,*   

  1. 1. Drinkable Plants Institute (Tea Research Center), Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
    2. The Key Lab of Agro-Environment of Tropics, Agriculture Ministry of China, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China;
    3. College of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
  • Received:2013-07-08 Revised:2013-09-04 Online:2014-06-15 Published:2019-09-03

Abstract: Spiders are the important natural enemy communities in tea plantation ecosystems. In order to understand the influence of two types of habitat management on the spider communities in terms of species composition, structure and diversity in tea plantations, samples were collected between June 2010 and May 2011 by using both clapping and trap methods, and from the tea plantations within small woodland (Ⅰ) and tea plantations with conventional production (Ⅱ) in Yingde Region of Guangdong. The number of predatory spiders was 1 551 in tea plantation Ⅰ with 16 families and 40 species, and their richness and abundance were higher than those in tea plantation Ⅱ. In addition, tea plantation Ⅰ had relatively more dominant species and individual numbers. The dominant species, Itatsina praticola, showed the largest number of individuals, accounting for 16.39% of the total. Species richness in tea plantation I was significantly higher than that in tea plantation Ⅱ, but the dominance index was lower. These results indicated that less human interference in the surrounding habitat of tea plantations could affect the natural habitat giving a relatively stable and rich ecosystem, and hence improve the protection of spider species diversity.

Key words: tea plantations of Guangdong, spiders, community, diversity

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