Assessment of self, opponent and resource during male-male contests in the sierra dome spider, Neriene litigiosa: Linyphiidae

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 809-820

  Keil, Pamela L ^a   Watson, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Communication; Contest; Display fight; Male male competition; Resource holding potential; Signalling; Spider

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOENERGY; BODY MASS; CONTEST COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FIGHTING; INJURY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIGNALING; SPERM COMPETITION; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; LINYPHIA; LINYPHIIDAE; NERIENE; NERIENE LITIGIOSA;

EID: 77957810180     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.07.013     Document Type: Article

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