Spider Behaviour - Flexibility and Versatility

Informationen zum Autor Marie Elisabeth Herberstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research investigates a range of behaviours in spiders including web building, learning, mating (including sexual cannibalism) and the use of deceptive signals. Klappentext Explores the extraordinary variation and plasticity found in all areas of spider behaviour including foraging! web building! communication and courtship. Zusammenfassung Targeting students and researchers unfamiliar with spiders as well providing a resource for those already working in the field! this book explores the variability and plasticity found in spider behaviour. It covers a broad range of behaviours from foraging and web building to communication and courtship. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Marie E. Herberstein and Anne Wignall; 2. Foraging behaviour Ximena J. Nelson and Robert R. Jackson; 3. Web building behaviour Marie E. Herberstein and I-Min Tso; 4. Anti-predator behaviour Ximena J. Nelson and Robert R. Jackson; 5. Communication Gabriele Uhl and Damian Elias; 6. Deception Marie E. Herberstein and Anne Wignall; 7. Mating behaviour and sexual selection Jutta Schneider and Maydianne Andrade; 8. Group living in spiders: cooperative breeding and coloniality Trine Bilde and Yael Lubin; 9. Plasticity, learning and cognition Elizabeth Jakob, Christa Skow and Skye Long; 10. Kleptoparasitic spiders - a special case of behavioural plasticity Mary Whitehouse; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Marie Elisabeth Herberstein
• Assisted by: Marie Elisabeth Herberstein (Editor), Marie Elisabeth (Macquarie University Herberstein (Editor), Herberstein Marie Elisabeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521749275
• ISBN: 978-0-521-74927-5
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 247 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Veterinary medicine; MEDICAL / Veterinary Medicine / General, Insects (entomology), Animal behaviour, Zoology and animal sciences, Zoology: invertebrates