Nutrient balance affects foraging behaviour of a trap-building predator

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 735-738

  Mayntz, David ^a   Toft, Søren ^a   Vollrath, Fritz ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Prey quality; Trap construction

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDATOR; PREY CAPTURE; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB;

ARANEAE; ZYGIELLA X-NOTATA;

EID: 74549202697     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0431     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Belovsky, G. E. 1978 Diet optimization in a generalist herbivore: the moose. Theor. Popul. Biol. 14, 105-134. (doi:10.1016/0040-5809(78)90007-2).
2. Craig, C. L. 1987 The ecological and evolutionary interdependence between web architecture and web silk spun by orb web weaving spiders. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 30, 135-163. (doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1987.tb00294.x).
3. Craig, C. L., Riekel, C., Herberstein, M. E., Weber, R. S., Kaplan, D. & Pierce, N. E. 2000 Evidence for diet effects on the composition of silk proteins produced by spiders. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17, 1904-1913.
4. Cruz-Rivera, E. & Hay, M. E. 2000 Can food quantity replace food quality? Food choice, compensatory feeding, and the fitness of marine mesograzers. Ecology 81, 201-219.
5. Eberhard, W. G. 1990 Function and phylogeny of spider webs. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 21, 341-372. (doi:10. 1146/annurev.es.21.110190.002013).
6. Greenstone, M. H. 1979 Spiders feeding behaviour optimises dietary essential amino acid composition. Nature 282, 501-503. (doi:10.1038/282501a0).
7. Gundersen, H. J. G. et al. 1988 Some new, simple and efficient stereological methods and their use in pathological research and diagnosis. Apmis 96, 379-394.
8. Heiling, A. M. & Herberstein, M. E. 1998 The web of Nuctenea sclopetaria (Araneae, Araneidae): relationship between body size and web design. J. Arachnol. 26, 91-96.
9. Heiling, A. M. & Herberstein, M. E. 2000 Interpretations of orb-web variability: a review of past and current ideas. Ekol. Bratislava 19, 97-106.
10. Higgins, L. & Rankin, M. A. 1999 Nutritional requirements for web synthesis in the tetragnathid spider Nephila clavipes. Physiol. Entomol. 24, 263-270. (doi:10.1046/j. 1365-3032.1999.00135.x).
11. Mayntz, D., Toft, S. & Vollrath, F. 2003 Effects of prey quality and availability on the life history of a trap-building predator. Oikos 101, 631-638. (doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12408.x). (Pubitemid 36599484)
12. Mayntz, D., Raubenheimer, D., Salomon, M., Toft, S. & Simpson, S. J. 2005 Nutrient-specific foraging in invertebrate predators. Science 307, 111-113. (doi:10.1126/science.1105493). (Pubitemid 40093490)
13. Peakall, D. B. & Witt, P. N. 1976 Energy budget of an orb web-building spider. Comp. Biochem. Phys. A 54, 187-190. (doi:10.1016/S0300- 9629(76)80094-1).
14. Prestwich, K. N. 1977 Energetics of web-building in spiders. Comp. Biochem. Phys. A 57, 321-326. (doi:10.1016/0300-9629(77)90199-2).
15. Pulliam, H. R. 1975 Diet optimization with nutrient constraints. Am. Nat. 109, 765-768. (doi:10.1086/283041).
16. Schneider, J. M. & Vollrath, F. 1998 The effect of prey type on the geometry of the capture web of Araneus diadematus. Naturwissenschaften 85, 391-394. (doi:10.1007/s001140050521). (Pubitemid 28402159)
17. Shaner, P.-J., Bowers, M. & Macko, S. 2007 Giving-up density and dietary shifts in the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus. Ecology 88, 87-95. (doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2007)88[87:GDADSI]2.0.CO;2). (Pubitemid 46596825)
18. Sherman, P. M. 1994 The orb web: an energetic and behavioral estimator of a spiders dynamic foraging and reproductive strategies. Anim. Behav. 48, 19-34. (doi:10.1006/anbe.1994.1208).
19. Simpson, S. J., Sibly, R. M., Lee, K. P., Behmer, S. T. & Raubenheimer, D. 2004 Optimal foraging when regulating intake of multiple nutrients. Anim. Behav. 68, 1299-1311. (doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.03.003). (Pubitemid 39588471)
20. Stephens, D. W. & Krebs, J. R. 1986 Foraging theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
21. Tso, I. M., Wu, H. C. & Hwang, I. R. 2005 Giant wood spider Nephila pilipes alters silk protein in response to prey variation. J. Exp. Biol. 208, 1053-1061. (doi:10. 1242/jeb.01437).
22. Tso, I. M., Chiang, S. Y. & Blackledge, T. A. 2007 Does the giant wood spider Nephila pilipes respond to prey variation by altering web or silk properties? Ethology 113, 324-333. (doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01318.x). (Pubitemid 46493404)
23. Vollrath, F. & Samu, F. 1997 The effect of starvation on web geometry in an orb-weaving spider. Bull. Br. Arachnol. Soc. 10, 295-298.
24. Zschokke, S. & Herberstein, M. E. 2005 Laboratory methods for maintaining and studying web-building spiders. J. Arachnol. 33, 205-213. (doi:10.1636/CT04-72.1). (Pubitemid 43058507)