Testing the gravity hypothesis of sexual size dimorphism: Are small males faster climbers?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 379-385

  Brandt, Yoni ^a,b   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of South Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotor performance; Scaling; Scramble competition; Sexual selection; Spiders

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GRAVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOCOMOTION; MATE LOCATION; MODELING; MOVEMENT; RANGE SIZE; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS; MOYA;

EID: 33947200307     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01243.x     Document Type: Article

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