Starvation affects pre-dispersal behaviour of Erigone spiders

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 308-315

  Bonte, Dries ^a   Lukáč, Martin ^a   Lens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behavioural plasticity; Constraints; Erigone; Reaction norms; Starvation

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; ERIGONE; ERIGONE ARCTICA;

EID: 41949114599     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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