Spider field expedition to Australia 2026

Name of applicant

Nikolaj Scharff

Title

Professor

Institution

University of Copenhagen

Amount

DKK 84,100

Year

2025

Type of grant

Field Trips / Research Stays < 100,000

Summary

Field expedition to Australia to collect spiders for an ongoing research project with the main aim to document and describe the orb weaving spiders of Australia. Spiders are important for ecosystem functioning as top predators of insects, but most species are still undescribed. Even common orb weaving spiders in big cities are new to science or has been given wrong names.

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