Heritability of spider ballooning motivation under different wind velocities

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 817-827

  Bonte, Dries ^a   Lens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Pardosa; Saltmarsh; Selection; Threshold model

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; LYCOSIDAE; PARDOSA;

EID: 34547140192     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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