Food consumption rates and competition in a communally feeding social spider, Stegodyphus dumicola (Eresidae)

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 195-200

  Amir, Nava ^a   Whitehouse, Mary E A ^a,b   Lubin, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competition; Foraging; Sociality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA;

EID: 0034348188     PISSN: 01618202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1636/0161-8202(2000)028[0195:FCRACI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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