Sibling cannibalism in a web-building spider: Effects of density and shared environment

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-16

  Modanu, Maria ^a,b   Li, Lucy Dong Xuan ^a   Said, Hosay ^a   Rathitharan, Nizanthan ^a   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Density; Latrodectus; Redback; Sibling cannibalism; Spider

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FITNESS; HATCHING; JUVENILE; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SIBLING; SPIDER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HATCHING; LATRODECTUS; LATRODECTUS HASSELTI; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; REARING; SIBLING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPIDER;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CANNIBALISM; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; SIBLINGS; SPIDERS;

EID: 84899518431     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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