Conditions favoring group living in web-building spiders in an extreme desert environment

Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-33

  Rao, Dinesh ^a,b   Lubin, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acacia; Araneidae; Arava Valley; colony living; Cyrtophora citricola; Dispersal

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONY; DESERT; DISPERSAL; FOOD SUPPLY; FRUITING; HABITAT TYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SHRUB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPIDER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARAVA VALLEY;

ACACIA; ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; CYRTOPHORA CITRICOLA;

EID: 78649296741     PISSN: 15659801     EISSN: 22244662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJEE.56.1.21     Document Type: Article

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