外来的红火蚁可以将本地蚂蚁排除在共生者提供的关键资源之外 Wilder, S. M., Barnum, T. R., Holway, D. A., Suarez, A. V., Eubanks, M. D. (2013). Introduced fire ants can exclude native ants from critical mutualist-provided resources. Oecologia, 172(1), 197-205. doi: 10.1007/s00442-012-2477-7 动物 ...
The Nature of Nutrition: A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity 营养的本质:一个从动物适应性到人类肥胖的统一框架 Stephen J. Simpson and David Raubenheimer 长期以来,营养学更多地被认为是医学和农业的领域,而不是生物科学的领域,然而它触及并塑造了自然界的方方面面。对营养的需求 ...
捕食的温度依赖性:随着气候变暖,捕食者的杀伤率和猎物消耗量增加 Temperature dependency of predation: Increased killing rates and prey mass consumption by predators with warming Temperature dependency of consumer–resource interactions is fundamentally important for understanding and predicting ...
A Sketch of Spider Systematics At present taxonomists recognize about 40,000 spider species, which they group into 110 families (Platnick, 2009). How this diversity should be arranged into a “natural” system of classification is still very much a matter of controversy. This is ...
The predatory bug, Orius majusculus( Reuter), is an important predator of thrips commercially produced for augmentative releases using the eggs of the Mediterranean flour moth Ephestia kuehniella ( Zeller). In this study, we assessed the potential for using frozen adults of fruit flie ...
Venom Glands andToxicity Spiders belong to the actively poisonous animals (i.e., they use their venom offen- sively to paralyze or to kill their prey). The quick immobilization is certainly the primary function of the venom—the lethal effect is only secondary (Friedel, 1987; Fri ...
Metabolism 本文翻译自Foelix, R. (2011). The Biology of Spiders. New York: Oxford University Press.第三章 3 Spiders have developed an unusual mode of food intake: digestion is initiated out- side the body. After the prey has been subdued by a venomous bite o ...