The complexity of site quality: multiple factors affect web tenure in an orb-web spider

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1147-1155

  Rittschof, Clare C ^a   Ruggles, Kelly V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

context dependent decision; foraging decision; habitat selection; kleptoparasite; male harassment; multimodal signalling; Nephila clavipes

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CENSUS; COMPLEXITY; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; KLEPTOPARASITISM; MICROHABITAT; MOVEMENT; PARASITE; PREY CAPTURE; SIGNALING; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; AVES; MAMMALIA; NEPHILA CLAVIPES; QUADRULA AUREA;

EID: 77950855467     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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