Despite their ecological importance and diversity, spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) are
underrepresented in conservation policies in comparison to other groups. We review all …

Although the European fauna of spiders is relatively well studied, in the Balkans still have
places for which little or almost nothing is known, especially Kosovo, Bosnia & Herzegovina …

Abstract Aim Species distribution models (SDMs) have emerged as essential tools in the
equipment of many ecologists, useful to explore species distributions in space and time and …

Given the current biodiversity crisis, pragmatic approaches to detect global conservation
trends across a broad range of taxa are critical. A sampled approach to the Red List Index …

Conservation assessments of hyperdiverse groups of organisms are often challenging and
limited by the availability of occurrence data needed to calculate assessment metrics such …

Stefan was promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 2008, an Associate Professor in
December 2012, and a Professor in December 2016. Between 2008 and 2016, he was …

Forty-five species of arachnids have been collected from 14 localities in Albania. These
belong to four orders: Araneae (38 species of 19 families), Opiliones (2 species of 2 …

Background The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the most widely used information
source on the extinction risk of species. One of the uses of the Red List is to evaluate and …

Background Data on 200 species of spiders were collected to assess the global threat status
of the group worldwide. To supplement existing digital occurrence records from GBIF, a …

Arachnids are a diverse group of arthropods, represented by well-known organisms like
spiders, with 51,164 species described to date, and scorpions, with 2761 known species …