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Does nutritional status constrain adoption of more costly and less risky foraging behaviour in an Amazonian shelter-building spider?

  • 1. Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil;
  • 2. Pós-doutorado pela Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil;
  • 3. Pós-doutorado pelo Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Alegre, Brazil

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Moura, R. R., Leal, L. C., Kloss, T. G. (2016): Does nutritional status constrain adoption of more costly and less risky foraging behaviour in an Amazonian shelter-building spider? Journal of Natural History 50: 2829-2837, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1211768, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1211768

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