Costs of aggregation: Shadow competition in a sit-and-wait predator

Oikos

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 59-68

  Lubin, Yael ^a   Henschel, Joh R ^b   Baker, Mitchell B ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b DESERT RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DENSITY; SPIDER;

NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA;

ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; SEOTHYRA HENSCHELI;

EID: 0035173298     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950107.x     Document Type: Article

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