Web building flexibility of an orb-web spider in a heterogeneous agricultural landscape

Ecography

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 646-653

  Bonte, Dries ^a,b   Lanckacker, Kjell ^a   Wiersma, Elisabeth ^a   Lens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LAND USE; PEST CONTROL; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ARANEUS DIADEMATUS;

EID: 53349176179     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.05508.x     Document Type: Article

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