Fine-scale substrate use by a small sit-and-wait predator

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 405-409

  Morse, Douglass H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crab spider; Foraging; Misumena vatia; Predator avoidance; Substrate use

Indexed keywords

BROOD STOCK; CRAB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR; SUBSTRATE;

ARANEAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EMPIDIDAE; MISUMENA VATIA; PELEGRINA; SALTICIDAE; SOLIDAGO; SOLIDAGO CANADENSIS; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 33645710598     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj053     Document Type: Article

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