Host selection by a kleptobiotic spider

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 95-99

  Hénaut, Yann ^a   Delme, Juliette ^b   Legal, Luc ^b   Williams, Trevor ^a,c  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; PREY SIZE; SPIDER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; HOST SELECTION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; COFFEE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPIDERS; TERRITORIALITY;

ARANEAE; ARGYRODES; INSECTA; LEUCAUGE; LEUCAUGE VENUSTA; NEPHILA CLAVIPES; TETRAGNATHIDAE;

EID: 13844265734     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-004-0597-6     Document Type: Article

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