Are three-dimensional spider webs defensive adaptations?

By T. Blackledge, Jonathan Coddington, R. Gillespie. 2002

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/41c3d9adfe563e0ea63354bec802d46c6b43dab3

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. I. Agnarsson
2. T. Blackledge
3. Jacquelyn M. Zevenbergen
4. M. Kuntner

In Genetics

1. I. Agnarsson
2. T. Blackledge
3. Jacquelyn M. Zevenbergen
4. M. Kuntner

Citations in the corpus

• Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae) (2004, background): “Blackledge et al. (2003) point out that the success of araneoid sheet web weavers is correlated with an ‘escape’ from predation by sphecid wasps.”
• Condition-dependent spider web architecture in the western black widow, Latrodectus hesperus (2007, background): “…the webs spun by most spiders are better considered to be structural modifications of the spiders’ immediate environment that influence a variety of traits, in addition to prey acquisition, such as defence against predators or reproduction (Blackledge & Wenzel 2001a; Blackledge et al. 2003).”