03567naa a2200277 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902200140006002400360007410000220011024501390013226000090027150009930028052017050127365000180297865000120299665300140300865300240302265300200304665300260306665300210309270000200311370000170313370000140315077301250316410631512022-12-02       2022    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d  a1366-638X7 a10.1007/s10841-022-00399-y2DOI1 aPOMPOZZI, GABRIEL  aLivestock systems preserving natural grasslands are biodiversity reservoirs that promote spiders' conservation.h[electronic resource]  c2022  aArticle history: Received 17 May 2021; Accepted 8 April 2022. Corresponding author: Pompozzi, G.; Laboratorio de Entomología, IADIZA (CCT CONICET-Mendoza), Mendoza, Argentina; email:gabrielpompozzi@gmail.com  --  The study work was supported by Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA) and Instituto Nacional de Carnes (INAC) from Uruguay.  Thanks to Alvaro Laborda and Damián Hagopián for helping us with spider identification of some specimens. Thanks also due to Sofía Copperi for help with statistical analysis and graphics. We would like to thank the farmers? member of CREA groups (families Bialade, Bremermann and Urioste) for allowing access to their fields for data collection. GP allowed ANII (Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación, Uruguay) for his postdoctoral scholarship (code PD_NAC_2018_1_150034). MS acknowledge financial support by PEDECIBA (Programa de Desarrollo de Ciencias Básicas), and Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SIN, ANII).  aABSTRACT.- Grasslands are endangered habitats through the world. Among its threats, land-use change has been recognized as one of the most important drivers of biodiversity decline. Sustainable livestock farming can be important conserving grasslands and preserving their biodiversity, and particularly in Uruguay are extensive and are carried out based on natural grasslands with little external management. However, in recent years there has been an increasing in land-use change, replacing natural grasslands with cultivated pastures, leading to a homogenization of the environments. Spiders are a model group for ecological studies, because they are good indicators of environmental change. Our goals were to evaluate the effect of land-use change (natural grasslands by annual pastures) in livestock systems of Uruguay on the spider community; and describe this community identifying conservation priority species and potential environmental indicators. We collected spiders seasonally during 1 year in three farms in Uruguay with a cattle and sheep full cycle production system. We found that substitution of natural grasslands by pastures in livestock systems implied a reduction in spider abundance and species richness. We found species considered of priority conservation for the country according to a local list and added new species to that list. Implications for insect conservation: Our results highlight the importance of conservation of natural grasslands, even in productive systems, to reduce spider diversity loss, and contribute to preserve one of the most threatened environments in the region.  © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.  aCAMPO NATURAL  aURUGUAY  aAbundance  aCultivated pastures  aLAND-USE CHANGE  aPriority conservation  aSpecies richness1 aDE SANTIAGO, F.1 aBLUMETTO, O.1 aSIMÓ, M.  tJournal of Insect Conservation, 2022, volume 26, Issue 3, pages 453-462. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-022-00399-y