Costs of courtship and mating in a sexually cannibalistic orb-web spider: Female mating strategies and their consequences for males

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 440-446

  Herberstein, M E ^a,c   Schneider, J M ^b   Elgar, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; COURTSHIP; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; ARGIOPE;

EID: 0036556147     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-002-0460-8     Document Type: Article

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