autumn spider, Metellina segmentata: a field experiment

Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biology and Biochemistry, The Queen's. University of ... final acceptance 8 February 1993; M.S. number: 413I). Abstract. ..... Rubenstein (1987) indicated a high degree of such.

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