Black widows in an urban desert: City-living compromises spider fecundity and egg investment despite urban prey abundance

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 333-340

  Johnson, J Chadwick ^a   Trubl, Patricia J ^a   Miles, Lindsay S ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DESERT; EGG; FECUNDITY; LIFE HISTORY; PARAMETERIZATION; PEST SPECIES; PREY AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; URBAN AREA;

ARANEAE; LATRODECTUS; LATRODECTUS HESPERUS;

EID: 84873044664     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-168.2.333     Document Type: Article

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