Optimal foraging, not biogenetic law, predicts spider orb web allometry

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 263-268

  Gregorič, Matjaž ^a   Kiesbüy, Heine C ^b   Quiñones Lebrón, Shakira G ^c   Rozman, Alenka ^d   Agnarsson, Ingi ^b,e   Kuntner, Matjaž ^a,e,f  

^a ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Leucauge venusta; Ontogenetic change; Ontogeny; Optimal foraging; Recapitulation theory

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; SPIDER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; LEUCAUGE VENUSTA;

EID: 84876293225     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-013-1015-8     Document Type: Article

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