Predator upon a Flower : : Life History and Fitness in a Crab Spider / / Douglass H. Morse.
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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Morse, Douglass H., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Predator upon a Flower : Life History and Fitness in a Crab Spider / Douglass H. Morse. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource (392 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Basic Biology -- 3 Foraging Strategies -- 4 Fitness Payoffs -- 5 Constraints on Success -- 6 Experience, Learning, and Innate Behavior -- 7 Some Sensory Aspects of Substrate Choice -- 8 Morphological Variation -- 9 Male-Female Interactions -- 10 Misumena as Part of the Community -- 11 Xysticus emertoni, a Cohabiting Crab Spider -- 12 Conclusions and Future Directions -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 variables that determine her evolutionary success. Did she choose a flower that attracts suitable prey? Will she encounter a competitor or predator? Will she survive long enough to breed, and will her offspring contribute to the gene pool? Ecologists had previously identified variables that shape populations, but lacked the experimental data needed to make comprehensive tests of individuals that made different foraging decisions. Morse found that Misumena is particularly well suited to both field study and laboratory experiments. Over the last 25 years, his simple yet elegant experiments have contributed to our understanding of lifetime fitness and helped to develop study techniques that can be applied to animals with other, more complex, life histories. Predator upon a Flower recounts these influential discoveries in a gracefully crafted narrative that moves ever outward from individuals to communities to ecosystems, and concludes by suggesting directions for future research in spider biology. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024) NATURE / Animals / Insects & Spiders. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674275409?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674275409 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674275409/original |
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