Local population success in heterogeneous habitats: Reciprocal transplant experiments completed on a desert spider

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 541-550

  Riechert, S E ^a   Hall, R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aselenopsis aperta; Behavioural traits; Desert; Ecotypes; Gene flow; Postzygotic barriers; Reciprocal transplants

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ECOTYPE; GENE FLOW; SPIDER; TRANSPLANTATION;

UNITED STATES;

AGELENOPSIS APERTA; ARANEAE;

EID: 0034104969     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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