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A major goal of the main topics of ecology is to answer the question of how species can co-exist and maintain biodiversity. To understand how community dynamics operate in different spatio-temporal dimensions to govern biodiversity patterns requires a process-based knowledge. Thus, this study focused primarily on biodiversity patterns and ecological processes at both spatial and temporal scales. Spatially, the diversity and similarity of spider communities in high, intermediate, and low strata of beech trees represented a set of age-related effects: Old-growth trees provided unique and distinct resources to spiders and in turn possessed discrete spider compositions. Intra-annually, spider communities in different seasons showed a repeated, predictable temporal dynamics. Inter-annually, comparison revealed that neutral and niche models can operate in tandem, and that both are needed to fully explain the dynamics of arboreal spider assemblages among different canopy strata in this beech forest.