Comparative responses of spiders and plants to maritime heathland restoration

Assessment of habitat restoration often rely on single-taxa approach, plants being widely used. Arthropods might yet complement such evaluation, especially in hard, poorly-diversified environments such as maritime clifftops. In this study we compared the responses of spiders and plants (both at species and assemblage levels) to increasing time of heathland restoration. Sampling took place in different sites of Brittany (Western France), using a...