Spider Communication
eBook - PDF

Spider Communication

Mechanisms and Ecological Significance

  1. 452 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Spider Communication

Mechanisms and Ecological Significance

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. 1 Introduction: Communication in Spiders by Peter N. Witt
  4. 2 The Significance and Complexity of Communication in Spiders by Bertrand Krafft
  5. 3 Spiders and Vibratory Signals: Sensory Reception and Behavioral Significance by Friedrich G. Barth
  6. 4 Acoustic Communication and Reproductive Isolation in Spiders by George W. Uetz and Gail E. Stratton
  7. 5 Visual Communication in Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) By Lyn Forster
  8. 6 The Behavior of Communicating in Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) By Robert R. Jackson
  9. 7 Chemical Communication in Lycosids and Other Spiders by William J. Tietjen and Jerome S. Rovner
  10. 8 Spider Interaction Strategies: Communication vs. Coercion by Susan E. Riechert
  11. 9 Social Spacing Strategies in Spiders by J. Wesley Burgess and George W. Uetz
  12. 10 Spider Foraging: Behavioral Responses to Prey by Susan E. Riechert and Jadwiga Luczak
  13. Epilogue by Jerome S. Rovner
  14. Literature Cited
  15. Taxonomic Index
  16. Subject Index