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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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Activity of the Namib Desert dune ant, Camponotus detritus
TL;DR: The activity of the ant Camponotus detritus was studied in the dunes of the central Namib Desert and the number of ants collecting honeydew was negatively correlated with air temperature while in winter it was positively correlated.
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The Biorhythms of Spiders
TL;DR: Until now, although the autecology of phenology of many orders of arachnids have been investigated, no evidence of a circannual clock has ever been reported, even in the most long-lived species (CloudsleyThompson 1978).
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Temperature tolerances in the Namib Desert dune ant, Camponotus detritus
TL;DR: The mean preferred temperature of workers and brood of Camponotus detritus was 35°C at 100% r.h. and the critical maximal temperature was 53°C while the critical minimal temperature was 4.57°C on average for 24 h.
A comparative study of the diet of the wedge-snouted sand lizard, Meroles cuneirostris (Strauch), and the sand diving lizard, Aporosaura achietae (Bocage), (Lacertidae), in the Namib Desert
Diana Murray,Gareth W. Schramm +1 more
TL;DR: The diets of two sympatric lizards, Metroles cuneirostris and Apomaum anchietae, collected in the same areas a1 the samc time, were compared by analysis of the stomach contents.
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