Trial by fire: Social spider colony demographics in periodically burned grassland

African Zoology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 145-151

  Lubin, Yael ^a   Crouch, Tanza ^b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Durban Natural Science Museum   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Eresidae; Extinction; Fire ecology; Stegodyphys

Indexed keywords

COLONY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SPIDER;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SPIOENKOP NATURE RESERVE;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; ERESIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; STEGODYPHUS DUMICOLA; STEGODYPHUS MIMOSARUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038009943     PISSN: 15627020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15627020.2003.11657202     Document Type: Article

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