Luis Hernandez

Luis Hernandez

Sep 17, 2018

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First field trip to Puebla, Mexico

I found a tarantula on my first trip to Puebla, Mexico

In our first survey to Puebla, Mexico, we found many spiders, mainly in the area with geothermal potential which has not been exploited. This first trip, although it was not possible to start with the samplings, helped to establish which sampling points could be useful for this investigation.

Northern Mountain range of Puebla, Mexico


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About This Project

Geothermal stations cause emissions of pollutants into the environment and can cause damage to living organisms. We believe that spider communities can be used to measure the damage of pollutants in these areas. We hypothesize that the diversity and abundance of spiders near geothermal plants is less diverse and less abundant when compared to the spider diversity and abundance at non-exploited geothermal potential sites.

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