Temperature Mediates Shifts in Individual Aggressiveness, Activity Level, and Social Behavior in a Spider

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 318-325

  Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a,b   Demes, Kyle W ^c   Dittrich Reed, Dylan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CONSPECIFIC; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPIDER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANELOSIMUS STUDIOSUS; ARANEAE;

EID: 79952418745     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01877.x     Document Type: Article

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