Interpretations of orb-web variability: A review of past and current ideas

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 19, Issue 9993, 2000, Pages 97-106

  Heiling, Astrid M ^a   Herberstein, Marie E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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