Foraging advantages of mixed-species association between solitary and colonial orb-weaving spiders

Oecologia

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 578-587

  Hodge, Margaret A ^a,b   Uetz, George W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b 931 College Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Mixed species groups; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; METERPEIRA; METERPEIRA INCRASSATA; NEPHILA CLAVIPES; TETRAGNATHIDAE;

EID: 0029839614     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00333951     Document Type: Article

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