Jack of all trades, master of all: A positive association between habitat niche breadth and foraging performance in pit-building antlion larvae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Barkae, Erezvid David ^a   Scharf, Inon ^a,b   Abramsky, Zvika ^a   Ovadia, Ofer ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTLION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; INSECT; LOESS; NONHUMAN; PIT BUILDING; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SANDY SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOIL;

CUETA; MYRMELEON; MYRMELEONTIDAE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; LARVA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84858258477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033506     Document Type: Article

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