High-performance spider webs: Integrating biomechanics, ecology and behaviour

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 57, 2011, Pages 457-471

  Harmer, Aaron M T ^a   Blackledge, Todd A ^b   Madin, Joshua S ^a   Herberstein, Marie E ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Biomimetics; Dragline silk; Ecology; Evolution; Orb web spider

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; ECOLOGY; RESEARCH;

BIOMECHANICAL RESEARCH; DRAGLINE SILK; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; MATERIAL SCIENTISTS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SELECTIVE PRESSURE; SPECIES INVASIONS; SPIDER SILKS; SPIDER WEB; STRENGTH AND TOUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; WEB ARCHITECTURE; WEB SPIDERS;

SILK;

NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOMECHANICS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; REVIEW; SILK; SPECIES INVASION; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB;

ARANEAE;

EID: 79952213073     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0454     Document Type: Review

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