The value of two Collembola species as food for a linyphiid spider

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-36

  Marcussen, Bente Møller ^a,b   Axelsen, Jørgen Aagaard ^a   Toft, Søren ^b  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumption capacity; Diet quality; Erigone atra; Fecundity; Folsomia fimetaria; Isotoma anglicana; Prey defence

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; FOOD QUALITY; REPRODUCTION; SPIDER;

ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; ATRA; COLLEMBOLA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ERIGONE ATRA; FOLSOMIA FIMETARIA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOTOMA ANGLICANA; ISOTOMIDAE; LINYPHIIDAE; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032828322     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1999.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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