Insects from the grazing food web favoured the evolutionary habitat shift to bright environments in araneoid spiders

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 565-568

  Miyashita, Tadashi ^a   Shimazaki, Aya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparative method; Herbivore insects; Web spider

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FOOD WEB; FOREST FLOOR; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPIDER; UNDERSTORY;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FOOD WEB; FOREST; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RATE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ARANEOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 33845589860     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0518     Document Type: Article

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