Barbara York Main
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara Anne York Main was an Australian arachnologist and adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia. The author of four books and over 90 research papers, Main is recognised for her prolific work in establishing taxonomy for arachnids, personally describing 34 species and seven new genera. The BBC and ABC produced a film about her work, Lady of the Spiders, in 1981.
Barbara York Main's Published Works
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- The Western Australian biota as Gondwanan heritage - a review (1996) (134)
- Deep phylogeographic structuring of populations of the trapdoor spider Moggridgea tingle (Migidae) from southwestern Australia: evidence for long‐term refugia within refugia (2011) (87)
- Predicting the post-fire responses of animal assemblages: testing a trait-based approach using spiders. (2011) (58)
- Where have all the spiders gone? The decline of a poorly known invertebrate fauna in the agricultural and arid zones of southern Australia (2017) (40)
- Further studies on the systematics for Ctenizid trapdoor spiders: a review of the Australian genera (Araneae : Mygalomorphae : Ctenizidae) (1985) (38)
- Habitat preferences of the urban wall spider Oecobius navus (Araneae, Oecobiidae) (2007) (38)
- Biology of Aganippine trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae) (1957) (35)
- Ecological restoration in the slipstream of agricultural policy in the old and new world (2004) (34)
- SEX RATIO IN THE SOCIAL SPIDER DIAEA SOCIALIS (1992) (34)
- Granite outcrops: A collective ecosystem (1997) (33)
- Attraction between social crab spiders: silk pheromones in Diaea socialis (1993) (31)
- The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level (2017) (30)
- Australian spiders: Diversity, distribution and ecology (1981) (30)
- Thermal and hygric physiology of Australian burrowing mygalomorph spiders (Aganippe spp.) (2012) (27)
- Biological anachronisms among trapdoor spiders reflect Australia's environmental changes since the Mesozoic (1999) (25)
- Historical Ecology, Responses to Current Ecological Changes and Conservation of Australian Spiders (2001) (25)
- Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna (2018) (25)
- Social History and Impact on Landscape (1993) (25)
- A comparative account of the biogeography of terrestrial invertebrates in Australia: some generalizations (1981) (23)
- Refugia within refugia: in situ speciation and conservation of threatened Bertmainius (Araneae : Migidae), a new genus of relictual trapdoor spiders endemic to the mesic zone of south-western Australia (2015) (23)
- Occurrence of the trapdoor spider genus Moggridgea in Australia with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Migidae) (1991) (22)
- Terrestrial invertebrates in south-west Australian forests: the role of relict species and habitats in reserve design (1996) (20)
- Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape (2017) (19)
- Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from southwestern Australia: Documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape (2017) (18)
- Habitat template for invertebrates on granite outcrops (2000) (17)
- Mygalomorph spiders of the southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia (2000) (17)
- Eco-evolutionary radiation of Mygalomorph spiders in Australia (1981) (16)
- From flood avoidance to foraging: adaptive shifts in trapdoor spider behaviour (1993) (16)
- Terrestrial arthropods in a fragmented landscape: a review of ecological research in the Western Australian central wheatbelt (2000) (13)
- Some zoogeographic considerations of families of spiders occurring in New Guinea (1982) (13)
- The visual system of the Australian wolf spider Lycosa leuckartii (Araneae: Lycosidae): visual acuity and the functional role of the eyes (2010) (13)
- The longest-lived spider: mygalomorphs dig deep, and persevere (2018) (13)
- Quality not quantity: conserving species of low mobility and dispersal capacity in south-western Australian urban remnants (2016) (11)
- Further studies on Australian Diplurinae: a review of the genera of the Teylini (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) (1985) (10)
- Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Chelicerata: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): Two new genera from south western Australia (1983) (10)
- Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia's biodiversity hotspot (2018) (7)
- Protease inhibitors active against porina caterpillar ( Wiseana cervinata ) (1993) (7)
- Survival of trapdoor spiders during and after fire (1995) (7)
- Taxonomy and biology of the genus Isometroides Keyserling (Scorpionida) (1956) (7)
- Preliminary notes towards a revision of the mygalomorph spider genus 'Dyarcyops' (Ctenizidae) (1977) (7)
- A new genus of mygalomorph spider from the Great Victoria Desert and neighbouring arid country in south-eastern Western Australia (Araneae: Nemesiidae) (2009) (7)
- Further Studies on the Systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): A New Genus from South-western Australia (1986) (7)
- Tropical rainforest mygalomorph spiders in the Australian desert: the irony of an adaptive legacy (1997) (6)
- Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: description of a new species of Missulena from southwestern Australia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae) (1996) (6)
- OCCURRENCE OF THE LUNGLESS SPIDER MICROPHOLCOMMA CROSBY AND BISHOP IN SOUTH‐WEST, WESTERN AUSTRALIA (ARANEAE: SYMPHYTOGNATHIDAE) (1974) (6)
- The Australian funnel-web spider: overkill or coevolution? (1996) (6)
- Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: descriptions of three new species of Teyl from Victoria (Araneae: Nemesiidae) (2004) (5)
- Further Studies on the Systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Chelicerata: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): Description of the Male of Troglodiplura Lowryi, with Notes on its Affinities (1985) (5)
- Notes on the revised taxonomic position of the black wishbone spider Dekana diversicolor Hogg (Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) (1982) (5)
- Biosystematics of two new species of unusually coloured Australian mygalomorph spiders, Arbanitis (Araneae: Idiopidae), from south-western Australia (2000) (5)
- THE TRAP‐DOOR SPIDER GENUS CATAXIA RAINBOW (MYGALOMOR‐PHAE: CTENIZIDAE)—TAXONOMY AND NATURAL HISTORY (1969) (5)
- VISUAL ACUITY OF THE SHEET-WEB BUILDING SPIDER BADUMNA INSIGNIS (ARANEAE, DESIDAE) (2005) (5)
- A new species of the mygalomorph spider genus Tilgarnia from the Western Australian wheatbelt (Araneae: Nemesiidae) (2008) (5)
- SYSTEMATICS OF THE TRAPDOOR SPIDER GENUS HOMOGONA RAINBOW (MYGALOMORPHAE: CTENIZIDAE: HOMOGONINAE) (1983) (5)
- Additional records of the Gondwandan spider Austrarchaea from southwestern Australia (1995) (5)
- Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spidersc two new species of Arbanitis from Victoria lMygalomorphaec Idiopidaer (1995) (4)
- Type material of spiders (Chelicerata: Araneae) collected on the Michaelsen and Hartmeyer Expedition of 1905 and lodged in the Western Australian Museum (1992) (4)
- Hogg's phantom spider from Central Australia: a century-old mystery solved (1998) (4)
- Arachnida: Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae in part, Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. (1985) (4)
- Tapetosa, a new monotypic wolf spider genus from Western Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosinae) (2009) (3)
- Spiders of the Stirling Range (1993) (3)
- Description and biogeographic implications of a new species of the Chenistonia maculata group from south-western Western Australia and rediagnosis of Chenistonia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae) (2012) (2)
- Behaviour of fenoxaprop-ethyl in the environment - fate and influence on the ecosystem (1990) (2)
- Response of trapdoor spiders to fire in the Stirling Range (1992) (2)
- Spiders and other invertebrates (1993) (1)
- Notes on the biogeography and natural history of the orbwealing spider Carepalxis (Araneae, Araneidae), including a gumnut mimic from southwestern Australia (1999) (1)
- Interactions of Water, Plants and Ground-Dwelling Fauna: Water Harvesting and Tapping by Trapdoor Spiders (2010) (1)
- Comparison of integrated control of pests and diseases of dessert apple with the grower's spray programme (1986) (0)
- HOE 33171, a new herbicide for the control of grass-weeds in sugar beets (1988) (0)
- Thermal and hygric physiology of Australian burrowing mygalomorph spiders (Aganippe spp.) (2012) (0)
- Visions for Agriculture. Proceedings of a (1993) (0)
- A note on the type locality of Dekana diversicolor Hogg (1996) (0)
- 2nd Annual City of Cumming Music Festival - Cumming, GA - Fairs and Festivals FairsandFestivals.net (2019) (0)
- Determining an optimum lysine : calorie ratio for 35 to 120 kg gilts in a commercial finishing facility . (0)
- Quality not quantity ; conserving species of low 1 mobility and dispersal capacity in south-western 2 Australian urban remnants 3 4 (2018) (0)
- Herkules plus Extravon - importance of additives in combination with herbicides (1994) (0)
- MINNIVALE TRAPDOOR SPIDER INTERIM RECOVERY PLAN 1998-2000 (2000) (0)
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