Altitudinal patterns of spider sociality and the biology of a new midelevation social anelosimus species in Ecuador

American Naturalist

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 783-792

  Avilés, Leticia ^a   Agnarsson, Ingi ^a   Salazar, Patricio A ^a   Purcell, Jessica ^a   Iturralde, Gabriel ^b   Yip, Eric C ^c   Powers, Kimberly S ^d   Bukowski, Todd C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^d The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography of sociality; Elevation; Group foraging; Latitude; Sex ratio; Social evolution; Social spiders; Theridiidae

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BODY SIZE; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENETICS; PREDATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INSECT; SPIDER; TROPICAL REGION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; ECUADOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECUADOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANELOSIMUS; ARANEAE; HEXAPODA; THERIDIIDAE;

EID: 35348905459     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521965     Document Type: Article

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