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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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