Does high adult mortality explain semelparity in the spider Stegodyphus lineatus (Eresidae)?

Oikos

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 92-100

  Schneider, Jutta M ^a   Lubin, Yael ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEGODYPHUS LINEATUS; ARANEAE; ERESIDAE;

MORTALITY; PREDATION; SEMELPARITY; SPIDER;

EID: 0030618289     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546094     Document Type: Article

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