Growth and development rates in a riparian spider are altered by asynchrony between the timing and amount of a resource subsidy

• Published in: Oecologia Vol. 156; no. 2; pp. 249 - 258
• Main Authors: Marczak, Laurie B, Richardson, John S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag 01.05.2008; Springer; Springer-Verlag; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis of Variance; Animal and plant ecology; Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Aquatic insects; Arachnida; Autoecology; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Body Weight; British Columbia; Compensatory growth; diet; Ecology; Food; Food availability; Food rationing; Food security; Food supply; foods; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; growth & development; Health risks; Hydrology/Water Resources; Invertebrates; landscapes; Life Cycle Stages; Life Cycle Stages - physiology; Life cycle. Embryology. Development; Life history; Life Sciences; Lipids; Molting; mortality; Mortality risk; personal development; Physiological Ecology - Original Paper; physiology; Physiology. Development; Plant Sciences; Prey; Protozoa. Invertebrata; Reproduction; Reproduction - physiology; riparian areas; Riparian forests; risk; Spiders; Spiders - growth & development; Subsidies; Tetragnatha; Time Factors; British Columbia; Subsidy timing; Compensatory growth; Aquatic–terrestrial interactions; Life history phenology; Asynchronous; Life history; Growth rate; Growth; Araneida; Environmental factor; Arachnida; Phenology; Riparian; Arthropoda; Development; Aquatic-terrestrial interactions; Timing; Tetragnatha versicolor; Invertebrata; Food supply

Rapid growth in response to increased prey abundance may be induced by environmental variability associated with resource subsidies. Spiders living in riparian areas are subject to frequent, episodic bursts of aquatic prey (subsidies). These periods of high resource abundance may occur at different...