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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Spider Communication
Mechanisms and Ecological Significance
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2014Print ISBN
9780691614533
9780691642154
eBook ISBN
9781400857517
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: Communication in Spiders by Peter N. Witt
- 2 The Significance and Complexity of Communication in Spiders by Bertrand Krafft
- 3 Spiders and Vibratory Signals: Sensory Reception and Behavioral Significance by Friedrich G. Barth
- 4 Acoustic Communication and Reproductive Isolation in Spiders by George W. Uetz and Gail E. Stratton
- 5 Visual Communication in Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) By Lyn Forster
- 6 The Behavior of Communicating in Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) By Robert R. Jackson
- 7 Chemical Communication in Lycosids and Other Spiders by William J. Tietjen and Jerome S. Rovner
- 8 Spider Interaction Strategies: Communication vs. Coercion by Susan E. Riechert
- 9 Social Spacing Strategies in Spiders by J. Wesley Burgess and George W. Uetz
- 10 Spider Foraging: Behavioral Responses to Prey by Susan E. Riechert and Jadwiga Luczak
- Epilogue by Jerome S. Rovner
- Literature Cited
- Taxonomic Index
- Subject Index
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