Deciding where to settle: Conspecific attraction and web site selection in the orb-web spider Nephilengys cruentata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1007-1012

  Schuck Paim, Cynthia ^a   Alonso, Wladimir Jimenez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; SITE SELECTION; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB;

ARANEAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HYMENOPTERA; NEPHILENGYS CRUENTATA;

EID: 0035665747     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1841     Document Type: Article

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