Predator-prey coevolution: Australian native bees avoid their spider predators

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Heiling, A M ^a   Herberstein, M E ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Austroplebia australis; Floral signal; Predator prey coevolution; Thomisus spectabilis

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEE; COEVOLUTION; FLORAL TRAIT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; THOMISCUS SPECTABILIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; ARANEAE; AUSTROPLEBIA AUSTRALIS; CHRYSANTHEMUM; CHRYSANTHEMUM FRUTESCENS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HYMENOPTERA; THOMISIDAE; THOMISUS SPECTABILIS;

EID: 2342449962     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0138     Document Type: Article

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