The ecological consequences of temperament in spiders

Current Zoology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 589-596

  Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a   Riechert, Susan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Behavioral syndrome; Behavioral type; Social insects; Social spider

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84863910998     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/58.4.589     Document Type: Article

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