Self-made shelters protect spiders from predation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 14903-14907

  Manicom, Carryn ^a   Schwarzkopf, Lin ^a   Alford, Ross A ^a   Schoener, Thomas W ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food web; Lizards; Predation defense

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGE; LIZARD; NATURAL ENEMY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RISK; SPIDER; ANIMAL; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; LIZARDS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

EID: 54449089134     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807107105     Document Type: Article

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