The Nutritional Content of Prey Affects the Foraging of a Generalist Arthropod Predator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Schmidt, Jason M ^a,b   Sebastian, Peter ^a   Wilder, Shawn M ^a,c   Rypstra, Ann L ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD WEB; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING INTENSITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PARDOSA MILVINA; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PREY CAPTURE; PREY SELECTION; PROTEIN CONTENT; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIPID METABOLISM; NITROGEN; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LYCOSIDAE; PARDOSA MILVINA;

EID: 84869054547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049223     Document Type: Article

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