Factors driving extreme sexual size dimorphism of a sit-and-wait predator under low density

By Rebecca S. Legrand, D. H. Morse. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e68162e532919f3250943558caca629a60f68671

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Citations in the corpus

• Lonely hearts or sex in the city? Density-dependent effects in mating systems (2006, background): “…that selective pressures for male mobility are strongest at low densities, it has been argued that difficulties in locating females and the consequent selection for small, highly mobile males lies behind male dwarfism in crab spiders Misumena vatia that live at low densities (Legrand & Morse 2000).”