High male mate search costs and a female-biased sex ratio shape the male mating strategy in a desert spider

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 853-859

  Berger Tal, Reut ^a   Lubin, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Effective sex ratio; Eresidae; Male mortality; Mate guarding; Operational sex ratio; Polygyny; Spider; Stegodyphus lineatus

Indexed keywords

DESERT; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE GUARDING; MORTALITY; PATERNITY; POLYGYNY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; ERESIDAE; STEGODYPHUS LINEATUS;

EID: 80052778704     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.021     Document Type: Article

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