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Environmental factors affecting the web and activity of a psammophilous spider in the Namib Desert
J. R. Henschel,Yael Lubin +1 more
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In this paper, the authors describe the structure of the web and examine the influence of certain environmental factors on web design and spider activity, including wind-blown sand covering the web's capture elements and disrupting foraging activity.About:
This article is published in Journal of Arid Environments.The article was published on 1992-03-01. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sand dune stabilization & Seothyra.read more
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The Evolution of Sociality in Spiders
Yael Lubin,Trine Bilde +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the occurrence of group living in spiders and illustrates that, as this terminology is also somewhat unwieldy, for convenience it revert to the commonly used shorthand designations of social and subsocial, for nonterritorial permanent‐social and territorial periodic‐social, respectively.
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Comparative hearing : Insects
TL;DR: An Informal Discussion of Hearing in Insects and the Sensory Coevolution of Moths and Bats.
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Invasive plant architecture alters trophic interactions by changing predator abundance and behavior
Dean E. Pearson,Dean E. Pearson +1 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that invasive plants that change the architecture of native vegetation can substantially impact native food webs via nontraditional plant → predator →-consumer linkages.
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Plasticity in web design in the spider Parawixia bistriata : a response to variable prey type
TL;DR: The spider Parawixia bistriata spun two types of webs in response to temporally fluctuating prey availability: small webs of fine mesh were spun daily at sunset and ceptured mainly small dipterans of the genus Dorhniphora.
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Trophic specialisation in a predatory group: the case of prey-specialised spiders (Araneae).
Stanislav Pekár,Soeren Toft +1 more
TL;DR: This work critically evaluates contemporary evolutionary hypotheses that might be used to explain the evolution of specialised foraging in predators, and proposes a unifying concept within which four types of trophic categories are defined using ecological (diet breadth) and evolutionary contexts.
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Desert adaptations in spiders
TL;DR: It is concluded that desert spiders belong mainly to two ecological groups: Mygalomorphae and large, long-lived tube-dwelling Lycosidae and Sparassidae and K-selection species and small, short-lived, nomadic hunting spiders of the families Gnaphosidae, Salticidae and Thomisidae.
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Ontogeny of Web-building Behavior in Two Orb-weaving Spiders
TL;DR: Spideis of similar miss but of two different species Araneus diadematus Cl. and Argiope aurantia L., build webs which have similar geometric patterns, but which differ in relative proportions and thread number.
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Activity patterns of some Namib Desert ants
TL;DR: The activity patterns of eight epigaeic ant species from the Namib Desert were studied in summer and winter, and before and after a rainfall event, finding that interspecific differences in activity pattern were greater in summer than winter.
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Ontogenetic and Seasonal Changes in Webs and Websites of a Desert Widow Spider
TL;DR: The results indicate that the relative quality of potential websites changes seasonally and with spider growth and suggest that the costs of relocating a web outweigh the advantages of reaching a new website, and that spiders remain for some time in websites which have become less suitable.
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Elementary Physics and Spider Webs
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed analysis of the forces and energies involved in the formation and functioning of a web is presented, with the focus on static and localized forces in spider webs.
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