Araneae isotope analysis in pitfall traps in sub project 7 in KiLi project

Isotope analysis was conducted by Friederike Gerschlauer, together with Gustavo Seiz and Ralf Kiese. The Spiders were sorted, measured and prepared for analysis by Michael Haas for his master thesis. The KiLi project (2010-2018) is a German Science Foundation (DFG) funded research unit (DFG research unit FOR1246) that focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem processes along altitudinal and disturbance gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania, Africa), capitalizing on its world-wide unique range of climatic and vegetation zones. The research unit comprises 2 central projects and 7 subprojects from various disciplines. On a total of 60 study sites in both natural and human-disturbed ecosystems biodiversity (e.g. plants, soil arthropods, ants, bees, frogs, lizards, bats, birds), related ecosystem processes (decomposition, seed dispersal, pollination, herbivory, predation), and biogeochemical processes and properties of ecosystems (climate, soil properties and nutrient status, regulation of water and carbon fluxes, trace gas emissions, primary productivity, functional diversity) are analyzed.同位素分析由Friederike Gerschlauer、Gustavo Seiz与Ralf Kiese共同完成。蜘蛛样本的分拣、测量及分析前制备工作由Michael Haas为其硕士学位论文开展。 KiLi项目（2010-2018年）是由德国科学基金会（DFG）资助的研究单元（DFG研究单元FOR1246），聚焦于非洲坦桑尼亚乞力马扎罗山沿海拔与干扰梯度的生物多样性与生态系统过程，依托其全球独一无二的气候与植被带分布范围。该研究单元包含2个核心项目与7个跨学科子项目。研究团队在自然与人为干扰生态系统的60个样地中，针对生物多样性（如植物、土壤节肢动物、蚂蚁、蜜蜂、蛙类、蜥蜴、蝙蝠、鸟类）、相关生态系统过程（分解作用、种子传播、传粉、植食作用、捕食作用）以及生态系统的生物地球化学过程与属性（气候、土壤特性与营养状况、水碳通量调控、痕量气体排放、初级生产力、功能多样性）开展分析。