Predator upon a flower life history and fitness in a crab spider /

In the crab spider, Misumena vatia, Douglass H. Morse and his colleagues found an ideal species on which to test basic questions associated with lifetime fitness. From the moment a female crab spider selects a flower on which to sit and wait for her prey, there unfolds a cascade of lifetime fitness...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morse, Douglass H., 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Crab spiders.
Araignées-crabes.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Some Basic Biology
  • Chapter 3. Foraging Strategies
  • Chapter 4. Fitness Payoffs
  • Chapter 5. Constraints on Success
  • Chapter 6. Experience, Learning, and Innate Behavior
  • Chapter 7. Some Sensory Aspects of Substrate Choice
  • Chapter 8. Morphological Variation
  • Chapter 9. Male-Female Interactions
  • Chapter 10. Misumena as Part of the Community
  • Chapter 11. Xysticus emertoni, a Cohabiting Crab Spider
  • Chapter 12. Conclusions and Future Directions
  • References

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