Competitive foraging in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 677-688

  Whitehouse, M E A ^a   Lubin, Y ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LETHRINIDAE; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA;

EID: 0032862823     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1168     Document Type: Article

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