Spider Communication : : Mechanisms and Ecological Significance / / Jerome S. Rovner, Peter N. Witt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Witt, Peter N.,; Rovner, Jerome S.,
• MitwirkendeR: Barth, Friedrich G.,; Burgess, J. Wesley,; Forster, Lyn,; Jackson, Robert R.,; Krafft, Bertrand,; Riechert, Susan E.,; Rovner, Jerome S.,; Stratton, Gail E.,; Tietjen, William J.,; Uetz, George W.,; Witt, Peter N.,; Łuczak, Jadwiga,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 536
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (452 p.)

Concentrating on the complex spider communication system, this book assembles the most recent multidisciplinary advances of leading researchers from many countries to assess the peculiar role spiders play in the animal kingdom.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Communication in Spiders
• Chapter 2 The Significance and Complexity of Communication in Spiders
• Chapter 3 Spiders and Vibratory Signals: Sensory Reception and Behavioral Significance
• Chapter 4 Acoustic Communication and Reproductive Isolation in Spiders
• Chapter 5 Visual Communication in Jumping Spiders (Salticidae)
• Chapter 6 The Behavior of Communicating in Jumping Spiders (Salticidae)
• Chapter 7 Chemical Communication in Lycosids and Other Spiders
• Chapter 8 Spider Interaction Strategies: Communication vs. Coercion
• Chapter 9 Social Spacing Strategies in Spiders
• Chapter 10 Spider Foraging: Behavioral Responses to Prey
• Epilogue
• Literature Cited
• Taxonomic Index
• Subject Index