Superfluous killing in spiders: a consequence of adaptation to food-limited environments?

By J. Maupin, S. Riechert. 2001

105 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Andrew Sih
2. A. Bell
3. J. Stamps
4. J. C. Johnson
5. J. Pruitt
6. T. C. Jones
7. S. Riechert
8. N. Dingemanse

In Genetics

1. Andrew Sih
2. A. Bell
3. J. Stamps
4. J. Pruitt
5. T. C. Jones
6. J. C. Johnson
7. S. Riechert
8. Tomas Brodin

In Insect Science

1. Andrew Sih
2. T. C. Jones
3. J. Pruitt
4. J. Stamps
5. J. C. Johnson
6. S. Riechert

Citations in the corpus

• Behavioural processes affecting development: Tinbergen's fourth question comes of age (2003, background): “…individuals that are quick to attack intruders (competitive behaviour) also have a shorter latency to emerge after a simulated predator attack (antipredator behaviour) and are more likely to engage in wasteful killing of prey (foraging behaviour) (Riechert & Hedrick 1993; Maupin & Riechert 2001).”
• Individual behavioural consistency and plasticity in an urban spider (2012, unknown): “The superfluous killing trials follow the protocols developed by Riechert and Maupin to test for aggressiveness towards prey in several different web-building spider species (Riechert & Maupin 1998; Maupin & Riechert 2001).”
• Behavioural syndromes and their fitness consequences in a socially polymorphic spider, Anelosimus studiosus (2008, methodology): “The superfluous killing trials follow the protocols developed by Riechert and Maupin to test for aggressiveness towards prey in several different web-building spider species (Riechert & Maupin 1998; Maupin & Riechert 2001).”
• Behavioral syndromes: an ecological and evolutionary overview. (2004, background): “Subsequent work showed that aggressive spiders also exhibit higher levels of non-adaptive wasteful killing, where spiders kill but then do not consume prey [ 17 ].”
• Precopulatory sexual cannibalism in fishing spiders (Dolomedes triton): a role for behavioral syndromes (2005, background): “This aggressive/bold syndrome was later shown to also correlate with wasteful killing (killing but not fully consuming prey) in the foraging context (Maupin and Riechert 2001).”