Aerial activity of linyphiid spiders: modelling dispersal distances from meteorology and behaviour

By C. Thomas, P. Brain, P. Jepson. 2003

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The role of perennial habitats for Central European farmland spiders (2005, background): “Ballooning spiders are able to cover larger distances (Thomas et al., 2003), but ballooning in early spring is probably not as far-reaching as in summer for meteorological reasons (Toft, 1995).”
Aerial dispersal plasticity under different wind velocities in a salt marsh wolf spider (2007, background): “…the length of the dispersal path is determined to a large extent by environmental factors related to landscape structure, such as the spatial configuration of ‘‘obstacles’’ and wind velocity (Bell et al. 2005), with higher velocities resulting in longer dispersal events (Thomas et al. 2003).”
Long‐distance biological transport processes through the air: can nature's complexity be unfolded in silico? (2005, background): “Spider launching was found to correlate with meteorological conditions of high turbulence, vertical updrafts and relatively weak horizontal winds (Suter, 1999; Thomas et al., 2003).”