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Biology of Spiders 3rd Edition



Biology of Spiders 3rd Edition PDF

Author: Rainer Foelix

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Publish Date: 2010

ISBN-10: 0199734828

Pages: 432

File Type: PDF

Language: English

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Book Preface

It is now exactly 30 years that Biology of Spiders was fi rst published, and I never expected nor planned to follow up with any further editions. When the science editor of Oxford University Press asked me last year whether I would prepare a thirdedition, I had at fi rst strong reservations because I knew vaguely how much work would be in stock for me: 12 years had passed since the second edition, and literally thousands of articles about spiders had been published during that time. I took up the challenge anyway and subsequently spent an entire year working exclusively on this new edition. Going through the enormous amount of spider literature was only possible through the internet, rapid information exchange by e-mail, and the support of kind colleagues who sent me with their latest spider publications. Including the major results of arachnological research of the past decade, it was thus possible to update all ten chapters. This is not to say that it is a complete revision—of course, there will be omissions, deliberate and unconscious ones. My goal was always to provide a readable book on the biology of spiders, not an encyclopedia. The fact that this new edition nevertheless contains more than 500 new references gives some idea of how much of the recent literature has been incorporated.

Particular attention was paid to the illustrations. Since all the former drawings and photographs had to be scanned anew, this provided a good opportunity to improve and to correct any fl aws in the 200 illustrations of the last edition. Almost 100 new pictures have been added to the present edition, often originals that were taken specifi cally for this book. Many unique photographs were contributed by fellow arachnologists, to whom I am most grateful.

My thanks go to the following colleagues for their help and support: Friedrich Barth, Jon Coddington, Paula Cushing, Bill Eberhard, Bruno Erb, Cheryl Hayashi, David Hill, Martin Huber, Yael Lubin, Peter Michalik, Wolfgang Nentwig, Martin Nyffeler, Brent Opell, Bastian Rast, Robert Raven, Jerome Rovner, David Schürch, Karin Schütt, Paul Selden, Robert Suter, Rolf Thieleczek, George Uetz, Benno Wullschleger, and Samuel Zschokke. I also wish to express my gratitude to the following institutions: The Naturama Aargau for use of their computer and graphics facilities, the Neue Kantonsschule Aarau for letting me work on their electron microscopes, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, for allowing access to the scientifi c literature. Finally, I´d like to thank my editor Phyllis Cohen and her colleagues Lisa Stallings, Karla Pace, and Jennifer Kowing at Oxford University Press and Anindita Sengupta at Glyph International for transforming my manuscript into an attractive book.
R. F. F.
Aarau
January 2010


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