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Cooperative foraging expands dietary niche but does not offset intra-group competition for resources in social spiders

Group living animals invariably risk resource competition. Cooperation in foraging, however, may benefit individuals in groups by facilitating an increase in dietary niche. To test this, we performed a comparative study of social and solitary spider species. Three independently derived social specie...

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Autores principales: Majer, Marija, Holm, Christina, Lubin, Yael, Bilde, Trine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6081395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30087391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30199-x