The studied locality, i.e. Klánovický les Forest is situated on the edge of Prague, one of the most polluted areas in the Czech Republic. Thanks to large area the forest acts as an isolation from agrochemicals, thus allowing the existence of some habitats sensitive to eutrophisation, in particular peat-bogs, heaths, bare sandy soils, and Molinia meadows. The habitats harbour unusually high species diversity of spiders and harvestmen: the author recorded 286 spider and 11 harvestman species there, which is approximately one third of the Czech fauna. Sixty one of them are red-listed in the Czech Republic. Peat-bog linyphiid
Saaristoa abnormis, and steppe lycosid
Alopecosa schmidti and linyphiid
Panamomops inconspicuus are listed as endangered. Local small peat-bogs offer suitable conditions for disappearing lycosids
Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata,
Pirata piscatorius and
Piratula uliginosa, while heaths harbour the disappearing
Oxyopes ramosus. Water spider
Argyroneta aquatica has recently been found in small pools in ditches along the railway. Littoral vegetation is inhabited by
Theridiosoma gemmosum and the jumping spider Calositticus floricola. Disturbed soil surface of wet meadows harbours the wolf spider
Arctosa leopardus. Some species have recently appeared at the site, for example
Dysdera hungarica, the harvestman
Nemastoma bidentatum sparsum or the crab spider
Synema globosum. The first two were probably introduced there by man, the latter probably expands due to climate change. The author suggests to keep these habitats without woody vegetation to protect local high species diversity there.