Contrasting responses of web-building spiders to deer browsing among habitats and feeding guilds

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 938-946

  Takada, Mayura ^a   Baba, Yuki G ^a   Yanagi, Yosuke ^a   Terada, Saeko ^a   Miyashita, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecosystem engineering; Habitat fragmentation; Sika deer; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BROWSING; COMPLEXITY; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HERBIVORE; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPIDER; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPIDERS; TREES;

ARANEAE; CERVIDAE; CERVUS NIPPON; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 50949099719     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[938:CROWST]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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