Literature about the WSC
| Miller, J. A., Agosti, D., Penev, L., Sautter, G., Georgiev, T., Catapano, T., Patterson, D., King, D., Pereira, S., Vos, R. A. & Sierra, S. (2015) Integrating and visualizing primary data from prospective and legacy taxonomic literature. Biodiversity Data Journal 3 (e5063): 1-33. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5063 | |
| Nentwig, W., Gloor, D. & Kropf, C. (2015) Taxonomic database: Spider taxonomists catch data on web. Nature 528: 479. doi: 10.1038/528479a | |
| Pekár et al. (2021). The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database 2021 (baab064): 1-10. doi: 10.1093/database/baab064 | |
| Harms, D., Nentwig, W., Gloor, D. & Harvey, M.S. (2022). Introducing the World Arachnida Catalog: the new research environment for (almost all) arachnid orders. Journal of Arachnology 50: 113-117. doi: 10.1636/JoA-S-21-063 |
Awards
The International Society of Arachnology gave the Pierre Bonnet Award to Wolfgang Nentwig and Christian Kropf, to honour the work of the whole WSC team “for their tireless work in developing and maintaining the online World Spider Catalog” at the International Congress of Arachnology, 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand.