Foraging in agricultural fields: Local 'sit-and-move' strategy scales up to risk-averse habitat use in a wolf spider

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 939-947

  Samu, Ferenc ^a,b   Szirányi, András ^a   Kiss, Balázs ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b PLANT PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; MOVEMENT; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; CANIS; LYCOSIDAE; PARDOSA; PARDOSA AGRESTIS;

EID: 0345392778     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2265     Document Type: Article

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