Experience affects the outcome of agonistic contests without affecting the selective advantage of size

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1533-1538

  Kasumovic, Michael M ^a,b   Elias, Damian O ^a,c,d   Punzalan, David ^a,e   Mason, Andrew C ^a   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Centre for Marine Bio Innovation   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

jumping spider; multiple competitions; Phidippus clarus; previous experience; selection gradient; tournament design

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIZE EFFECT; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA; PHIDIPPUS CLARUS; SALTICIDAE;

EID: 67349139268     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.026     Document Type: Article

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