Database, 2021, 2021(0), 1–10 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab064 Original article The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits Stano Pek´ ar 1, * , Jonas O. Wolff 2,3 , Ľudmila ˇ Cerneck´ a 4 , Klaus Birkhofer 5 , Stefano Mammola 6,7 , Elizabeth C. Lowe 3 , Caroline S. Fukushima 6 , Marie E. Herberstein 3 , Adam Kuˇ cera 1 , Bruno A. Buzatto 3,8 , El Aziz Djoudi 5 , Marc Domenech 9 , Alison Vanesa Enciso 10 , Yolanda M. G. Piñanez Espejo 11 , Sara Febles 12 , Luis F. García 13 , Thiago Gonçalves-Souza 14 , Marco Isaia 15 , Denis Lafage 16 , Eva Líznarov´ a 1 , Nuria Macías-Hern´ andez 6,17 , Ivan Magalhães 18 , Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte 6,19 , Ond ˇ rej Mich´ alek 1 , Peter Michalik 2 , Radek Michalko 20 , Filippo Milano 15 , Ana Munévar 11 , Wolfgang Nentwig 21 , Giuseppe Nicolosi 15 , Christina J. Painting 22 , Julien Pétillon 16 , Elena Piano 15 , Kaïna Privet 16 , Martín J. Ramírez 18 , Cândida Ramos 6 , Milan ˇ Rez´ aˇ c 23 , Aurélien Ridel 16 , Vlastimil R ˚ uˇ zi ˇ cka 24 , Irene Santos 12,25 , Lenka Sentensk´ a 1 , Leilani Walker 26 , Kaja Wierucka 3,27 , Gustavo Andres Zurita 11 and Pedro Cardoso 6 1 Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotl ´ a ˇ rsk´ a 2, Brno 611 37, Czechia 2 Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald, Loitzer Str. 26, Greifswald 17489, Germany 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, 6 Wally’s Walk, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia 4 Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Forest Ecology, Ľ. Štúra 2, Zvolen 960 01, Slovak Republic 5 Department of Ecology, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 6, Cottbus 03046, Germany 6 Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Finnish Museum of Natural History LUOMUS, University of Helsinki, Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 13, Helsinki 00014, Finland 7 Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council (CNR), Corso Tonolli, 50, Pallanza 28922, Italy 8 School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia 9 Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences & Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, Barcelona 08028, Spain 10 Fundaci ´ on Protectora Ambiental Planadas Tolima (FUPAPT, Tolima, Colombia 11 Instituto de Biología Subtropical (UNAM-CONICET), Puerto Iguazú, Argentina 12 Grupo de Investigaciones Entomol ´ ogicas de Tenerife (GIET), C/ San Eulogio 15, 1º, La Laguna, Canary Islands 38108, Spain 13 Centro Universitario Regional del Este, Universidad de la República, Ruta 8 Km 282, Treinta y Tres, Uruguay 14 Department of Biology, Ecological Synthesis and Biodiversity Conservation Lab, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Dom Manuel de Medeiros, s/n, Dois Irmãos—CEP, Recife, PE 50710-270, Brazil 15 Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Accademia Albertina, 13, Turin 10123, Italy 16 UMR CNRS 6553 ECOBIO, Université de Rennes 1, 263 Avenue du General Leclerc, Rennes 35042, France 17 Departamento de Biología Animal, Edafología y Geología, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife 38206, Spain 18 Division of Arachnology, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’—CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, Buenos Aires C1405DJR, Argentina 19 CE3C—Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal 20 Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemˇ edˇ elsk´ a 3, Brno 613 00, Czech Republic 21 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, Bern 3012, Switzerland 22 Te Aka M¯ atuatua School of Science, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand 23 Crop Research Institute, Drnovsk´ a 507, Prague 6 CZ-16106, Czechia 24 Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Branišovsk´ a 31, ˇ Ceské Budˇ ejovice 370 05, Czechia 25 Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología (IPNA-CSIC), La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands 38206, Spain 26 Natural Sciences, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Parnell, Auckland 1010, New Zealand 27 Department of Anthropology, University of Z¨ urich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Z¨ urich 8057, Switzerland * Corresponding author: Tel: +420 549496464; Email: pekar@sci.muni.cz Citation details: Pek´ ar, S., Wolff, J., ˇ Cerneck´ a, Ľ. et al. The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database (2021) Vol. 2021: article ID baab064; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab064 Received 4 July 2021; Revised 13 August 2021; Accepted 23 September 2021 © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/database/article/doi/10.1093/database/baab064/6397506 by guest on 20 September 2022