Incluye referencias bibliográficas. CONTENIDO: Curves, maps and hotspots : the diversity and distribution of araneomorph spiders in the Neotropics / Adalberto J. Santos, Antonio D. Brescovit, Márcia de Oliveira-Tomasi, Philip Russo, and Ubirajara Oliveira -- Behavior and biology of Mygalomorphae / Fernando Pérez-Miles and Carlos Perafán -- Neotropical arachnological collections : basic tools for the development of spider research / Antonio D. Brescovit, Oscar Francke, Álvaro Laborda, Griselda Montiel Parra, Cristina Scioscia, Miguel Simó, and Carlos Víquez Núñez -- Habitat selection and dispersal / Dinesh Rao -- Dispersal strategies, genetic diversity, and distribution of two wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) : potential bio-indicators of ecosystem health of coastal dune habitats of South America / Leticia Bidegaray-Batista, Miquel Arnedo, Ana Carlozzi, Carolina Jorge, Patricio Pliscoff, Rodrigo Postiglioni, Miguel Simó, and Anita Aisenberg -- Webs : diversity, structure and function / Sean J. Blamires, Shichang Zhang, and I-Min Tso -- Spider-plant interactions : an ecological approach / João Vasconcellos-Neto, Yuri Fanchini Messas, Hebert da Silva Souza, German Antonio Villanueva-Bonila, and Gustavo Quevedo Romero -- Spiders as plant partners : complementing ant services to plants with extrafloral nectaries / Kleber Del-Claro, Vanessa Stefani, Larissa Nahas, and Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi -- Foraging strategies of cursorial and ambush spiders / Rodrigo H. Willemart and Mariángeles Lacava -- Trophic niches and trophic adaptations of prey-specialized spiders from the Neotropics: a guide / Stano Pekár, Luis Fernando García, and Carmen Viera -- Spiders associated with agroecosystems : roles and perspectives / Marco Antonio Benamú, Mariángeles Lacava, Luis Fernando García, Martín Santana, and Carmen Viera.
Sexual selection in neotropical spiders : examples from selected groups / Luiz Ernesto Costa-Schmidt, María José Albo, Fedra Bollatti, Franco Cargnelutti, Lucía Calbacho-Rosa, Sofía Copperi, Nelson Ferretti, Matías Izquierdo, and Alfredo V. Peretti -- Parental care and sociality / Carmen Viera and Ingi Agnarsson -- Plasticity and cognition in spiders / Hilton F. Japyassú -- Anti-predator strategies / Felipe M. Gawryszewski -- Host behavioural manipulation of spiders by ichneumonid wasps / Marcelo O. Gonzaga, Thiago G. Kloss, and Jober F. Sobczak.