Context-dependent running speed in funnel-web spiders from divergent populations

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 165-171

  Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a   Husak, Jerry F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b University of South Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti predator behaviour; Behavioural syndrome; Foraging; Locomotion; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; SPIDER; TERRITORIALITY;

AGELENOPSIS APERTA; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; DIPLURIDAE;

EID: 73949135023     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01623.x     Document Type: Article

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