A spider population in flux: Selection and abandonment of artificial web-sites and the importance of intraspecific interactions in Lepthyphantes tenuis (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in wheat

Oecologia

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 228-239

  Samu, Ferenc ^a   Sunderland, Keith D ^b   Topping, Chris J ^b   Fenlon, John S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Interference competition; Life history; Micro scale population dynamics; Spider; Web building

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; SPIDER; WEB USE; WHEAT;

ARANEAE; LEPTHYPHANTES TENUIS; LINYPHIIDAE;

EID: 0029731116     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328603     Document Type: Article

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