Komunitas laba-laba lansekap persawahan di Cianjur

Abstract

Spiders are dominance and have an impportant role not onli in ricefields ecosystem, but also in agroecosystems in general. All spiders are predator, especially to insects. Hence, they have an important role to control insects population. The complexity of landscape structure estimated has an important role to the availability of spiders in ecosystems. The objective of the research is to investigate the influence of ricefields landscape structure to the spiders community in the landscape. Spider were collected by using five trapping techniques (pitfall trap, yellow-pan trap, sweep net, suction trap, and sticky trap). The results showed that there were 82 species from 16 families of spiders in ricefields landscape at Cianjur. Landscape structure, habitat tyoe, period of crops growth, and season affect the species diversity, species richness, and evenness of spiders.